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DESCRIPTION:**Postponed to July 17**\n\nCPMC's plan to make healthcare even less 
 accessible to SouthEast San Francisco passed the Planning Commission, and 
 now rests with the Board of Supervisors.  A coalition of community and 
 health advocates has filed an appeal to at least modify CPMC's plan. We 
 want to move 160 beds from the planned Cathedral Hill mega-hospital to the 
 Mission District's St. Luke's Hospital, which could then be economically 
 sustainable.\n \nPLEASE ATTEND.  CPMC's plan for rebuilding St. Luke's 
 calls for only 80 beds.  This is completely inadequate for the low-income, 
 medically-underserved, and largely minority SouthEast sector, whose only 
 other hospital is SF General, itself being rebuilt with little additional 
 capacity.  Moreover, St. Luke's cannot economically sustain itself with 
 only 80 beds, and CPMC would certainly use this unsustainability as an 
 excuse to close St. Lukes, despite its promises. 
 \n\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nCathedral Hill Neighbors\n\nAPPEAL 
 FILED ON CPMC CATHEDRAL HILL HOSPITAL PLAN\n\nCertification of a Final 
 Environmental Impact Report identified as: \nPlanning Case No. 2005.0555E, 
 through its Motion No. 18588, for the proposed     California Pacific 
 Medical Center Long Range Development Plan Project. \n\nAn appeal on behalf 
 of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, Council of 
 Community Housing Organizations, Cathedral Hill Neighbors Association, 
 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Jobs with Justice San Francisco, and 
 San Franciscans for Healthcare, Housing, Jobs, and Justice has been filed 
 on the decision of the Planning Commission on April 26, 2012. \n\nThe plan 
 as approved for the Cathedral Hill campus will be an environmental disaster 
 for the central city neighborhoods of Pacific Heights, Western Addition, 
 Japantown, Cathedral Hill, Polk Corridor and the Tenderloin and a 
 healthcare disaster for the eastern neighborhoods of San Francisco 
 currently served by St. Luke's Hospital.   \n\nThe Board of Supervisors 
 needs to overturn this certification and to support the reasonable 
 alternative, identified by the SF Planning Department in 2010 as 
 Alternative 3A, which would relocate 160 beds from the California Campus to 
 the St. Luke’s campus, creating two new sustainable hospitals close to 
 equal size.  This alternative creates the same number of new jobs and 
 provides better health care access for all city residents, while reducing 
 the negative traffic, transit, pedestrian safety and air quality impacts on 
 our neighborhood. \n\nA hearing date has been scheduled on Tuesday, June 
 12, 2012, at 4:00 p.m., at the Board of Supervisors meeting to be held in 
 City Hall, Legislative Chamber, Room 250, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 
 San Francisco, CA 94102. Community, ecumenical and business representatives 
 and other interested speakers should attend this hearing and/or provide 
 written comment as outlined in the appeal posted on our website at 
 sfchna.org. \n\nYou can also contact our new Supervisor at 
 christina.olague@sfgov.org. \n\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nFrom the 
 upcoming (June, 2012) issue of the SF Gray Panthers newsletter:\n 
 \nMayor’s Giveaway to CPMC\n \nCalifornia Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) 
 plans to consolidate its SF facilities into a mega-hospital at Van Ness and 
 Geary.  Community, labor, and patient advocates have serious concerns about 
  (1) long-term viability of St. Luke’s Hospital for 
 medically-underserved, poor, and largely minority SouthEast San Francisco, 
 (2) affordability of care for low-income uninsured and Medi-Cal recipients, 
 (3) gentrification and loss of affordable housing, particularly in the 
 adjoining Tenderloin, (4) rights of RNs to remain in the CNA, (5) loss of 
 long-term and psychiatric care, (6) increased traffic and disruption by 
 construction, and (7) quality of life and environmental concerns.\n 
 \nOpposition groups, including the Good Neighbor Coalition, Jobs with 
 Justice, the Calif. Nurses Association, and the Coalition for Health 
 Planning have demanded a Community Benefits Agreement, a legally binding 
 agreement between CPMC and affected unions and community groups, that would 
 address the above issues and be part of Mayor Ed Lee’s development 
 agreement with CPMC.  \n \nInstead, Lee has reached a giveaway deal with 
 (1) with few jobs guaranteed to City residents, (2) no assurances of 
 affordable housing for its workforce, (3) no improvements on CPMC’s 
 abysmal charity care, (3) permission to operate St. Luke’s Hospital with 
 an unsustainably low number of beds and with an escape clause in its 20 
 year promise to keep it open. CPMC is raising its costs to Blue Shield, who 
 will pass those costs on to City employees using that insurer.  CPMC has 
 also refused to recognize the union status of its own RNs moving to the new 
 hospital.  The SF Planning Commission has approved the deal. It now must 
 pass the Supervisors. \n \nOWL has a better idea: Base healthcare planning 
 on the needs of ALL. “OWL recommends that city actions to approve CPMC 
 applications be delayed until 2013 when the Healthcare Master Plan is 
 available to guide official decisions. The Master Plan requires the Dept. 
 of Public Health to conduct an assessment of healthcare need and to develop 
 a “determination of consistency” to advise the Planning Commission and 
 Board of Supervisors on land use related to health care facilities.”  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/28/18714265.php
SUMMARY:...CPMC on SF Healthcare  <---POSTPONED
LOCATION:SF City Hall, Supervisor's Chambers\nPolk St. betw. Grove & McAllister
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/28/18714265.php
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