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DESCRIPTION:2/3 Press Conference-Speak Out-Stop The Discharges At Laguna Honda 
 Hospital\nDischarges = Deaths\n\nThursday February 2, 2023 3PM\n\nDespite 
 unaimous opposition from the community and labor  to the continued 
 discharge of patients at San Francisco City’s Laguna Honda Hospital, 
 Mayor London Breed and her hand picked San Francisco Department of Public 
 Health commissioners have decided that discharges will start again on 
 February 3, 2023.\n\nThese discharges have already killed 9 patients of the 
 Hospital. Further discharges will lead directly to moredeaths and they have 
 been warned at DPH hearings. Nursing home workers are already overloaded 
 with patients and not prepared for many of the fragil residents and 
 patients at Laguna Honda.\n\nThe fact is that there are not enough 
 healthcare facilities like Laguna Honda. This same Board, and the 
 Departmentof Public Health director Colfax  knew that patients who needed 
 care were being discharged despite needing the care at Laguna Honda.  This 
 board and DPH Director Colfax need to be held responsible for these deaths 
 and Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors must STOP THIS NOW or 
 be held responsible for any further deaths resulting from discharges.\n\nWe 
  demand that Newsom and the State Department Of Public Health along with US 
 Secretary of Labor Xavier Becerra put a halt to these discharges. The Chair 
 of Board Dan Bernal is the Chief of Staff for Nancy Pelosi and yet they are 
 allowing the discharges to start again. Behind this is the drive to 
 privatize the hospital and sell of the land for luxury condos which 
 developers are already planning for. This also a boon for the private 
 nursing home industry which Gavin Newsom and his state agencies refuse to 
 properly regulate and provide oversight.\n\nWe need to stop the 
 privatization of public health system and demand that nursing homes be run 
 properly by the public  without billionaires cutting costs for more 
 profits.\n\nThe outsourcing to consultants and the expenditures of millions 
 of dollars as well has not been transparent and instead of bringing in 
 professionals they are wasting more money.\n\nBring your community members 
 and union brothers and sisters and bring your signs &  banners.\n\nJoin the 
 Press Conference and Speak Out on\nThursday February 2, 2023 at 
 3:00PM\n\nNo Discharges, End The Secrecy By Department of Public 
 Health\nLabor and Community United To Protect Laguna Honda Hospital\n\nWe 
 support the following demands:\nPlease Tell CMS and the Board of 
 Supervisors:\n\n1. Residents already discharged by force must be allowed to 
 return.\n2. No closure\n3. Funding for existing residents must continue 
 until recertification\n4. No loss of beds in this nearly new facility\n5. 
 No evictions of Skilled-Nursing-Facility-eligible residents under any 
 circumstances.\n6. No eviction for non-SNF-eligible residents until safe 
 and local arrangements are made.\n7. We demand transparency in planning 
 changes of Laguna Honda policies and operations.\n8. Prevent inappropriate, 
 unnecessary, illegal and unsafe nursing home admissions. SFDPH must stop 
 the "flow" project of ZSFGH patients and return admission decisions to 
 dedicated LHH Staff who understand how a nursing home operates.\n9. SFDPH 
 and government agencies above it (including State and Federal) must provide 
 sufficient mental health and substance use programs and residential beds to 
 give people the care they need. Also, sufficient services must be provided 
 for elders and people with disabilities to stay in their communities where 
 possible.\n10. Laguna Honda must be open to all San Franciscans who need 
 nursing home care\n11. Restore admissions to Laguna Honda 
 Hospital.\n\n\nInitiated by\nUnited Front Commitee For A Labor 
 Party\nwww.ufcllp.org\ninfo@ufclp.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/26/18854033.php
SUMMARY:Stop The Discharges At Laguna Honda — Discharges = Death — Press Conference/Speak Out
LOCATION:In Front of Laguna Honda Hospital Entrance in front of Murals Across From 
 Muni Forrest Hill Station\n375 Laguna Honda Blvd.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/26/18854033.php
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