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DESCRIPTION:The CNA will have an support event for the defense of St. Lukes Hospital in 
 San Francisco.\n\nSan Francisco Faith Leaders to Stand with St. Luke’s 
 RNs: December 1\n\nNurses Struggle to Preserve Services at St. Luke’s as 
 CPMC Master Plan for Cathedral Hill Hospital Looks to Slash St. Luke’s by 
 62% and Terminate Patient Services for Community\n\nClergy and religious 
 leaders representing the spectrum of San Francisco will gather at St. 
 Luke’s Hospital on Tuesday, December 1 to stand with RNs and other 
 caregivers in their effort to stop the California Pacific Medical Center 
 chain (CPMC) from making crippling cuts in patient beds and services 
 offered at the iconic institution.\n\nThe clergy are among the array of 
 community and healthcare groups urging the city to reject CPMC’s 
 Institutional Master Plan to build a new skyscraper hospital in Cathedral 
 Hill unless the proposal can be amended to serve the needs of all of the 
 city’s patients and residents.\n\nWHAT: Clergy Lead Candlelight Vigil In 
 Support of St. Luke’s Nurses, Patients \nWHEN: Tuesday, December 1, 4:00 
 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.\nWHERE: St. Luke’s Hospital, Valencia @ Cesar Chavez, 
 San Francisco\n\nCPMC is planning deep cuts to the quality and range of 
 care provided to St. Luke’s patients as part of plans which were recently 
 submitted to the city planning department.  The plans would create a 
 separate but unequal healthcare system, with residents in the southern half 
 offered lower-quality care than more affluent residents from the north. 
 CPMC’s Master Plan calls for:\n\nA 62% reduction in beds available at St. 
 Luke’s Hospital (from 225 to 82)\nAn 82% reduction in CPMC beds that are 
 appropriate for seniors on Medicare—with all of them now concentrated at 
 St. Luke’s (although geriatric specialists would be relocated to 
 Cathedral Hill)\nOngoing reductions in patient care units and services 
 offered to St. Luke’s patients\n“By working together, patients, 
 seniors, immigrants, and St. Luke’s doctors, nurses, and caregivers were 
 able to force CPMC to agree to rebuild St. Luke’s. But our struggle to 
 save this hospital and its valuable services to our community is not yet 
 over,” said Rev. Israel Alvaran, a local interfaith leader.  “Our faith 
 traditions teach us to stand by those in need of care and shelter, to 
 welcome to the poor, and to bind the wounded. and we are struggling to keep 
 the healthcare services our community needs.”\n\n“CPMC has made clear 
 that seniors are not a high priority,” said Joseph Smooke, Executive 
 Director of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.  “They’re claiming that 
 St. Luke’s will focus on senior health, but want all the specialists that 
 seniors need located somewhere else. They’re also reducing Medicare beds 
 when the city projects a 30 percent shortage of skilled nursing beds by 
 2020. They even cut funding to our community-based senior services programs 
 because we wouldn’t toe their political line to support the deluxe 
 Cathedral Hill hospital.”\n\n“As Registered Nurses, we are obligated to 
 advocate for our patients, and I have to say that there is a terrible 
 public health danger posed by CPMC’s efforts to slash services at St. 
 Luke’s. What’s good enough for Cathedral Hill should be good enough for 
 St. Luke’s. What message does it send when medically-underserved 
 patients, often Latino and African-American, are offered fewer services, 
 fewer resources, fewer nurses, and fewer beds?  How can CPMC so willingly 
 embrace this medical redlining?” asked Jane Sandoval, RN, a nurse at St. 
 Luke’s.\n\nThe community activists are demanding equality in services 
 offered at St. Luke’s and the Cathedral Hill hospitals--both inpatient 
 and outpatient--before the City approves CPMC’s Master Plan.  In 
 addition, they demand that the chain listen to neighbors and integrate the 
 hospital design into existing neighborhoods, and reach fair agreements with 
 strong patient safety protections for RNs and caregivers at the facility. 
 \n\nThe planning commission is expected to hear the case in early 2010, 
 with the Board of Supervisors needing to approve the project as well.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/30/18630983.php
SUMMARY:Support For St. Lukes Hospital SF
LOCATION:St. Luke’s Hospital, Valencia @ Cesar Chavez, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/30/18630983.php
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