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DESCRIPTION:Tell the SF Supervisors: NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan!\nReject CPMC’s 
 Environmental Impact Report!\nCome to the Supervisor’s Hearing on 
 CPMC’s Rebuild Plans\nMonday, July 16, 1PM\nSF Supervisor’s Chambers, 
 2nd Floor, City Hall\n(Polk St. betw. Grove & McAllister)\n\nThis is one of 
 a series of Supervisor hearings on the anticipated effects of CPMC’s 
 Rebuild Plans. This hearing focuses on the negative effects of CPMC’s 
 Rebuild plan on housing, traffic, and transportation. This hearing will 
 also focus on community and health advocates’ appeal against  CPMC’s 
 Environmental Impact Report. The full Board will be ruling on the appeal 
 the following day, Tuesday, July 17, at 4 PM.  If our appeal is sustained, 
 it will throw the whole CPMC process back to the Planning Commission and 
 could force a major setback.\n\nCPMC'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. Luke’s, despite its promises. \n\nA 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 serve the 
 healthcare needs of Southeast San Francisco.  St. Luke’s would also 
 become economically sustainable.\n\nThis modification was considered in 
 CPMC’s Environmental Impact Report, and then dismissed out-of-hand, as 
 being incompatible with CPMC’s overall financial plan.  This is the legal 
 basis for challenging the CPMC’s Environmental Impact Report.  Read more 
 below.\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:  Planning 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\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\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/15/18717572.php
SUMMARY:Tell the SF Supervisors: NO on CPMC’s Rebuild Plan!
LOCATION:SF Supervisor’s Chambers, 2nd Floor, City Hall\n(Polk St. betw. Grove & 
 McAllister)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/15/18717572.php
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