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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 \nTuesday, July 31, Time to be announced.  \n(See 
 July 31 agenda at http://tinyurl.com/ylhhbbs  when it’s posted.)  \nSF 
 Supervisor’s Chambers, 2nd Floor, City Hall \n(Polk St. betw. Grove & 
 McAllister) \n\nSan Francisco Supervisors were supposed to vote on an 
 appeal to CPMC’s Environmental Impact Report on July 17th,  and it was 
 clear that a majority of Supervisors were ready to sustain the appeal 
 because of serious doubts about the Report’s accuracy and balance on 
 traffic issues and alternative plans to sustain St. Luke’s Hospital.  If 
 the appeal were sustained, it would throw the whole CPMC process back to 
 the Planning Commission and could force a major, perhaps fatal, 
 setback.\n\nUnder this threat, CPMC suddenly dropped its intransigence, and 
 begged for another two weeks where it claimed it would do serious 
 negotiation about its plans and to make major revisions in its plans to 
 meet major objections. The Supervisors agreed.  Read more at 
 http://tinyurl.com/cqarkke .\n\n Nobody has a crystal ball for the next two 
 weeks, but the Board is scheduled to take a vote on July 31 on whatever has 
 been negotiated.  Given CPMC’s intransigence and duplicity in dealing 
 with the City, it is extremely unlikely that health and community 
 advocates’ objections will be satisfied.\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/2012/07/23/18718061.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) \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/23/18718061.php
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