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DESCRIPTION:Tell the SF Supervisors: NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan! \nSupervisors Hearing 
 on Healthcare Effects of Rebuild \nMonday, July 9, 1-4 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 (1) how building a 550-bed hospital on one of the City’s 
 busiest intersections will affect traffic, public transportation, and 
 Neighborhood issues, and (2) how the rebuild will solidify CPMC’s 
 monopoly position, leading to CPMC charging more for healthcare for City 
 workers and retirees. (The City is determined to pass its increased costs 
 from CPMC onto its current and former workers.)\n\nIn March, 2011, the LA 
 Times wrote: “On average, hospitals in Northern California's most 
 populous counties collect 56% more revenue per patient per day than 
 hospitals in Southern California's largest counties, a Times analysis 
 shows. Northern California hospitals say their prices are driven up by 
 significantly higher costs for labor, supplies and other necessities. But 
 leading healthcare economists say that most of the disparity stems from a 
 lack of competition in the north, where a wave of consolidation has given a 
 handful of hospital networks unusual power to dictate what private insurers 
 and their customers pay for care.  "Consolidation definitely drives up 
 prices," said Glenn Melnick, a USC health economist who has written 
 extensively on the issue. "This is a really serious problem."The driving 
 force in the north is Sutter Health, a not-for-profit system of of 24 
 hospitals and roughly 5,000 doctors that reaches into more than 100 cities 
 and towns across 20 counties. (Read the whole article at 
 http://tinyurl.com/bsmf3c3  )\n\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\nIn more recent developments, it has come out that CPMC was 
 misleading the Board and the public in suggesting there was only a remote 
 likelihood of triggering CPMC’s escape clause in its commitment to keep 
 St. Luke’s Hospital open.  Still more recently, leaked CPMC documents 
 show CPMC was intending to lay off over 370 workers, provide even less 
 charity care than the minimal amount being negotiated , and to close St. 
 Luke’s Hospital in four years, all in breach of the agreement they were 
 simultaneously negotiating with the City.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/05/18716976.php
SUMMARY:NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan! Supe’s Hearing on Traffic and City Healthcare Costs
LOCATION:Supervisors Chambers, SF City Hall \n(Polk St. betw. Grove & McAllister, 
 Civic Center BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/05/18716976.php
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