Any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the Police Department office
Well call the meeting to order role commissioner pating ill note to here commissioner singer commissioner chung commissioner sanchez and sxhashgs the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for august 418, 2015. There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over dis
There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the
Like the Substance Abuse medical is the bridge to reform waiver as of 13 it is a demonstration waiver 1115 waiver called the organized Delivery System of medical waiver so the state amended the state plan and made a parole to cms approved this august to show it if they increased the Services Covered by drug medical that they could by organizing the system and having smooth trisz from levels of care and using evidence based practices they could improve the care and overall costs of medicaid would not go up you can opt in or not opt the community likes a demonstration waiver they should we we already do so were coming in and the bay area was chosen as phase one so there are several tasks for Substance Abuse services im in charge of one to have the implement plan with the timelines for everything and another one to set rates we negotiate with the state and make a new contract we want the rates to be realistic because if you compare grants the drug medal there is a huge increase in account
Nursing you have to keep that in the back of your head and it sounds like the town square is a part of that. We have to move on. Is the square a day treatment model, a step down . No, its not. Just one thing and i will answer that. My suggestion is i will have to come back and talk to you at a different time which i suggest that you not be so focused on skilled nursing. The issues are not going to be addressed in those beds. They are going to be addressed in changes and how assisted living is going to be in the future. I appreciate your focus on the concern on the shortage of beds. There is a much broader response to that. No, by the way, im involved in doing 2re7bding accrue trending across the country. Its not a day hospital model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic s