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DESCRIPTION:Tell the SF Supervisors: NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan!\nSupervisors Hearing 
 on Effects of the Rebuild on the City Health System\nMonday, July 9, 1 
 PM\nSupervisors Chambers, SF City Hall\n(Polk St. betw. Grove & McAllister, 
 Civic Center BART)\n\nOne of a series of Supervisor hearings on the 
 anticipated effects of CPMC’s Rebuild Plans. This hearing focuses on the 
 effects of CPMC’s Rebuild plan on the City Health system.  Concerns are 
 that a downsized St. Luke’s Hospital could not handle overflow from SF 
 General Hospital, itself being rebuilt with little increase in capacity,  
 (2) doubts  on how CPMC, with a terrible record for charity care, would 
 care for 10,000 new Medi-Cal patients to be brought in by the Obama health 
 plan, (3) concerns that CPMC will not replace the 100 Skilled Nursing beds 
 they say they will create to (partly) balance the 180 that they are 
 closing, creating a crisis because the City is already short on Skilled 
 Nursing beds that accept Medi-Cal.\n\nBackground: California 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 
 South-East San Francisco, (2) availability 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 CPMC workers in 
 closed units to transfer to the new Hospital, (5) rights of RNs to remain 
 in their union, (6) loss of long-term and psychiatric care, (7) lack of 
 assurance that CPMC will hire local people, (8) increased healthcare costs 
 as CPMC gains monopoly, (9) increased traffic and disruption in an 
 already-congested area, and (10) 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 demand a Community Benefits Agreement, a legally binding agreement 
 between CPMC and affected unions and community groups, that would address 
 the these issues.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/21/18715939.php
SUMMARY:NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan! Supe’s Hearing on Effects on City Health System
LOCATION:Supervisors Chambers, SF City Hall\n(Polk St. betw. Grove & McAllister, 
 Civic Center BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/21/18715939.php
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