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the web site of a community working together to save St. Luke's from being
closed as an acute care hospital by California Pacific Medical Center and Sutter
Health. You can help us keep the momentum going by
signing the online petition.
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Each of these blogs is edited by one or more
members of the St. Luke's community.
Updates on the future of St. Luke's:
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The St. Luke's Medical Executive Committee, on behalf of the Medical
Staff, wishes to commend the work of the Blue Ribbon Panel
and the leadership of the Right Reverend Marc Andrus, Dr. Martin Brotman,
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier and Dr. Mitch Katz in creating this panel.
We believe it serves as a visionary example of how community health
planning can achieve goals that benefit all.
The recommendation to build a new hospital on the St. Luke's campus while
maintaining acute care services on site during construction is completely
acceptable, and particularly laudable. The identified service lines have our
support. We agree with the strategy to have the number of hospital beds follow
the needs dictated by these service lines. We support the benefit of clinical
integration of the two medical staffs with the eventual goal of possible merger.
We call upon the Board of CPMC to adopt the recommendations of the BRP
into the Institutional Master Plan.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- St. Luke's Hospital, a venerable San Francisco institution
for more than a century, is facing new life after teetering on the brink of
closure as a full-scale medical facility.This week, a special panel concluded
four months of investigation by unanimously recommending that St. Luke's be
rebuilt as an acute care community hospital.
According to Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has been a leader in San
Francisco's fight to save the historic hospital, the panel is suggesting that
the new facility, housing 60 to 80 beds, be constructed next to the existing
site on Cesar Chavez Avenue. The old facility would remain open during the
building process. It will come down only after the new hospital is built,
Alioto-Pier said."This is really exciting," the supervisor said. "When this is
done, we'll have to have a party on the top floor before any beds get moved
in."Under a rough estimate, she said, the hospital would cost $120 million to be
paid by California Pacific Medical Center which runs St. Luke's.
Last year, California Pacific announced it would close the facility as an acute
care hospital within a few years. Under such a scenario, only one full-service
hospital would remain south of Market Street - San Francisco General - while 11
hospitals, and possibly a forthcoming 12th hospital, would exist north of
Market.
The panel's recommendation carries great weight because it involved a
collaboration of municipal, business and labor representatives. Additionally,
two members of California Pacific's board of directors served on the committee.
In a statement Thursday, Mayor Gavin Newsom touted the "hard work and energy" of
the panel's various participants and said he hoped California Pacific's
directors "will concur with the group's findings."SAN FRANCISCO -- St. Luke's
Hospital, a venerable San Francisco institution for more than a century, is
facing new life after teetering on the brink of closure as a full-scale medical
facility.This week, a special panel concluded four months of investigation by
unanimously recommending that St. Luke's be rebuilt as an acute care community
hospital.
According to Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has been a leader in San
Francisco's fight to save the historic hospital, the panel is suggesting that
the new facility, housing 60 to 80 beds, be constructed next to the existing
site on Cesar Chavez Avenue. The old facility would remain open during the
building process. It will come down only after the new hospital is built,
Alioto-Pier said."This is really exciting," the supervisor said. "When this is
done, we'll have to have a party on the top floor before any beds get moved
in."Under a rough estimate, she said, the hospital would cost $120 million to be
paid by California Pacific Medical Center which runs St. Luke's.
Last year, California Pacific announced it would close the facility as an acute
care hospital within a few years. Under such a scenario, only one full-service
hospital would remain south of Market Street - San Francisco General - while 11
hospitals, and possibly a forthcoming 12th hospital, would exist north of
Market.
The panel's recommendation carries great weight because it involved a
collaboration of municipal, business and labor representatives. Additionally,
two members of California Pacific's board of directors served on the committee.
In a statement Thursday, Mayor Gavin Newsom touted the "hard work and energy" of
the panel's various participants and said he hoped California Pacific's
directors "will concur with the group's findings."
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MAYOR NEWSOM’S STATEMENT REGARDING ST. LUKE’S BLUE RIBBON PANEL
The recommendations produced by the St. Luke’s Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP)
reflect not only the needs and considerations of the communities and
neighborhoods served by St. Luke’s Hospital for over 137 years, they also
reflect the expertise and experience of local and national health experts
and community leaders. Four months ago, it seemed that the closure of St.
Luke’s Hospital, a vital health resource serving the southern half of our
city, was eminent.
Thanks to the leadership of Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier and Dr. Martin
Brotman of California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), and the assistance of
San Francisco Director of Public Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz, experts and
community leaders were convened in a Blue Ribbon Panel to consider how to
best preserve access to acute care hospital services on the St. Luke’s
campus. The result is a series of thoughtful, comprehensive recommendations
for keeping St. Luke’s Hospital open and serving our most vulnerable
residents.
I congratulate the BRP, co-chaired by Bishop Marc Andrus of the Episcopal
Diocese and Steven Shortell, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Public Health at
U.C. Berkeley, as well as the committed representatives from business,
labor, community organizations, St. Luke’s Hospital, Supervisor Tom
Ammiano’s office and national health planning and policy experts.
Their efforts produced a set of recommendations that had unanimous support
from all BRP participants. I want also to thank S.E.I.U., the California
Nurses Association and the full California Pacific Medical Center family who
remained at the same table with so much at stake for their memberships. I am
hopeful that the CPMC Board of Directors will appreciate the hard work.
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BLUE RIBBON PANEL SAVES ST. LUKE’S
WITH GROUND BREAKING TEAMWORK
San Francisco – When Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier heard CPMC
would be closing St. Luke’s Hospital in 2009, she knew The City could not
afford to lose this essential resource that had served San Francisco for
over 137 years. She insisted a Blue Ribbon Panel be convened to evaluate
strategies to preserve acute care services on the south side of The City.
With Public Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz, Alioto-Pier appointed a panel of
experts and community leaders in health care, business, neighborhood
organizations, non-profits, community and labor. This public-private
collaboration met many times since March with the goal of developing a plan
to preserve a home for St. Luke’s as an acute care hospital for the next
hundred years and to secure access to health care for all San Franciscans no
matter where they live. #Last evening, the Blue Ribbon Panel completed its’
mission and came to consensus on a unanimous recommendation to rebuild a
viable acute care hospital at St. Luke’s.
“It took
7 exhaustive meetings and several months, but we found a way to come
together to protect a San Francisco treasure in St. Luke’s Hospital”, said
Supervisor Alioto-Pier, “I am overwhelmingly proud of our efforts. This is
the first time the SEIU, CNA and CPMC have been at the same table, working
collaboratively and coming to consensus”.
The Blue
Ribbon Panel’s recommendations include: rebuilding a new acute care,
community hospital on the St. Luke’s campus that will be a Center of
Excellence in Community Health and will promote care models and community
organizations that reduce the need for hospitalization. Services included
should be those of greatest need to the surrounding community based on
today’s needs: Urgent Care/Emergency/ICU, Medical/Surgical, low intervention
Obstetrics and GYN, Pediatrics, a Center of Excellence on Senior Health and
skilled nursing. The panel recommended merging CPMC and St. Luke’s medical
and nursing staffs, and making the St. Luke’s campus an integral provider of
primary and secondary care within the CPMC system.
Download full news release of Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier as a PDF file.
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“Blue Ribbon Panel” Concludes with Recommendations to Rebuild St.
Luke’s Hospital as a “center of excellence” in community health
The Blue Ribbon Panel, which included participants such as CNA, SEIU-UHW, St
Luke’s doctors, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Supervisor Alioto-Pier,
Catherine Dodd for the Mayor’s Office, Roma Guy for Supervisor Ammiano, and SF
Public Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz, unanimously recommended to the CPMC Board
of Directors that CPMC rebuild St. Luke’s as an acute care hospital at the
current site. The Panel also recommended that:
The services to be included in the new hospital will include: ER, Urgent Care,
ICU, Pediatrics, SNF, a Center of Excellence in low-intervention OB, Med/Surg
(such as cardiology, respiratory), and Center of Excellence in Senior Health
(such as ortho, rehab).
Services and care will be maintained during construction.
Every effort will be made toward staff recruitment and retention, including
treating nurses well within CPMC.
The preferred option is to build the new hospital on the space from the loading
dock to the doctor’s parking lot.
Next, the CPMC Board of Directors will decide whether to accept the
recommendations, and in the fall there will be a hearing at City Hall to review
what CPMC decides. We may still need to struggle over exact number of beds.
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Update on Blue Ribbon Task Force
You may want to take a
look at this "Agreements" document as it now stands.
Two
Community Hearing very held June 3 and 5th to give
feedback on the BRP's Agreements thus far.
Minutes of the June 3 hearing are available at
Cesar Chavez Elementary School on
the new Blue Ribbon Panel website
www.blueribbonsf.com.
The Panel will be moving ahead in future
meetings to refine and revise this "Agreements" document
to produced a final consensus proposal to the CPMC Board
of Directors for the future of St. Luke's.
Because the Panel is behind in its agenda,
additional meetings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force have been
announced....the remaining Blue Ribbon Panel Meetings
are:
- June 18th 11:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Grace Cathedral, Wilsey
Conference Center
- June 25th 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. Grace Cathedral, Wilsey
Conference Center
- July 1st 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. Grace Cathedral, Wilsey Conference
Center
* All Panel meetings are open to the
public
We apologize for so posting so little news regarding the Blue Ribbon Panel on SaveStLukes.org. It was our
expectation that all minutes would be published on the
http://www.cpmcbeyondmedicine.com/ site, however, that has not yet
happened, I believe, for administrative reasons. The Panel is restrained
from speaking to the press, deferring to the Chair and Vice Chair as
spokespeople. Only one press release has been published as yet which I
have posted on our blog. Both Marc Snyder, and myself, however, have
attended both meetings. Dr. Goel attended the first meeting as
observers.
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Mission
Statement for the Community Outreach Task Force
CPMC has created a “Blue Ribbon” process to develop a viable plan for an
acute
care hospital and outpatient services at CPMC’s St. Luke’s campus, which
complements and is supported by CPMC’s current institutional plan for
its other
campuses.
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April
10th Community Task Force Meeting in the Excelsior on the Future of St.
Luke's
Public Discussion April 10th from
6:30–8:00 p.m. Corpus Christi Church 62 Santa Rosa Ave, San Francisco,
CA
Please call 415-291-9506 for more information or go to
www.cpmcbeyondmedicine.com/blue_ribbonThe availability of
affordable, accessible high quality health care is an issue for everyone
in San Francisco. That is why, beginning this month, Supervisor Michela
Alioto-Pier and Mitch Katz, M.D., Director of San Francisco’s Department
of Public Health, are convening a ‘blue ribbon’ panelof experts to look
at the health care needs of San Francisco, and in particular the role
that St.Luke’s plays in that. A special Community Task Force has been
created to help the panel in its work. The Task Force will be
responsible for gathering and presenting community input to the ‘blue
ribbon’ panel. We would like you to be a part of this discussion as
well.
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April
1st Mission District Community Task Force Meeting
Concerned about health care in San
Francisco? Tell us what you think.
Join the discussion about health
care needs in San Francisco, including the future of St. Luke’s......
Public Discussion on April 1st from
6:30–8:00 p.m.
St Anthony-Immaculate Conception School
299 Precita Street, San Francisco, CA
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Note from blog editor: more information and schedules of
meetings available at
http://www.cpmcbeyondmedicine.com/
This post was an e-mail sent to St. Lukes's doctors from William Miller, M.D., Chief Medical Executive, St. Luke's
Hospital The Blue Ribbon Committee had its first meeting last week which went
very well. Dr. Steve Shortell, the Chair of the Committee and Dean
of the School of Public Health at Berkeley, established that the plan is to keep St. Luke's open as an acute care hospital
and that the charge to the committee is to make recommendations on
how to achieve that goal. Mr. Scott Minick, the CPMC President of
the Board, echoed Dr. Shortell's statement, reiterating that the
Board is committed to St. Luke's and is asking the committee to help
it find a viable way to keep the hospital open in the context of the
plans for the medical center's other campuses.
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Blue
Ribbon Panel Kicks Off Planning Process
MINUTES OF FIRST MEETING
Second Meeting Scheduled for April 16 (press
release issued by BRP)
(San Francisco, March 20, 2008) The Blue Ribbon Panel,
which was formed to help shape the future of healthcare delivery
South of Market, including the future of St. Luke’s Hospital, kicked
off its discernment and recommendation process today with the first
meeting of its 31 members -- leaders from San Francisco community,
labor, local government, health care and business.
The Blue Ribbon Panel has been established as an independent body to
create a viable plan for acute care hospital and outpatient services
at St. Luke’s, which complements and is supported by CPMC’s current
institutional plan for all its San Francisco campuses and meets the
healthcare needs of the communities served.
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., MPH, Dean and professor at the UC
Berkeley, Chair of the Panel and the Rt. Reverend Marc Andrus,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, Vice-Chair of the
Panel presided over the open meeting with Convener San Francisco
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier. More than 35 attendees from the
public were present.
"For ongoing information and the schedule of Community
Meetings where you can give input into the Blue Ribbon Panel process
for the future of St. Luke's Hospital go to
www.cpmcbeyondmedicine.com"
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St.
Luke’s Hast Thou Forgotten thy Mission?
By Jonathan Farrell, Mar 18, 2008
The Mission Dispatch
Sit-ins and candlelight vigils this past February got the attention of
the SF Chronicle as it brought into focus the critical fact that St.
Luke’s one of the city’s oldest and most vital hospitals faces a
possible shut-down as a Blue Ribbon Committee gathers to determine its
fate on March 20.
Kevin McCormack Media Rep for California Pacific Medical Center one of
the two corporate entities in control of St. Luke’s, sees the forming of
a committee as a positive step.
McCormack was enthusiastic when he talked to the Mission Dispatch about
the forming of a Blue Ribbon Committee as he admitted he was biased
about the idea.
"I think having a committee is a great idea. It brings together all the
experts that have lots of credibility. Their experience and knowledge
will have a much deeper and wider scope of understanding."
And with that, I am hoping they working all together as a committee will
help turn St. Luke's around giving it the direction and help it needs,"
said McCormack
Currently, there are over 20 people who have agreed to participate. It
reads like a “who’s who” of the medical and business community;
including some non-profits like The SF Foundation. Described as leaders
in their given fields of expertise/experience. The list continues to
grow until the series of meetings officially convene.
Yet, activists and community leaders like Jane Martin of the Bernal
Heights Community Center have reservations. “CPMC & Sutter Health has
not been fully disclosing exactly what their plans are,” she said. This
is why we have reservations about the Blue Ribbon Committee,” said
Martin.
Some fear that the committee will have more participants aligning with
CPMC/Sutter than it will on the side of St. Luke’s. With many broad and
sweeping points of view on the committee, would the needs of patients be
swept way?
The 138-year-old St. Luke’s serves a significant portion of the city’s
population. Yet it is situated in the Mission, Bernal Heights and
surrounding areas. These parts of the city consist of working class
families, immigrants and low-income people.
Activists and community leaders believe that CPMC/Sutter wants to close
it down because it is not economically stable. Basically said, it costs
money and does not have the financial return CPMC/Sutter expects.
“Most of the patients are MediCal, MediCare or simply uninsured,” said
Dr. Benita Ann Palmer, MD who feels very connected to St. Luke’s. “The
doctors and staff here are committed, they know that if they work here,
they are not out to make money but to serve the community, especially
the under-served,” she said.
Which brings to light the question, what is St. Luke’s losing money on?
Exactly, what costs are causing a concern for CPMC/Sutter? St. Luke’s is
a non-profit hospital originally founded by the Episcopalian Diocese of
SF in 1871. Its mission is to serve the poor.
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Meeting Dates Announced for
Blue Ribbon panel
Blue Ribbon Panel will
convene Thursday, March 20 ,
12-2pm in the
Grace
Cathedral Wilsey Conference Center, located on Taylor Street
between Sacramento and
California,
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The panel will hold meetings on the following dates
- Meeting #1 –
March 20
- Meeting #2 –
April 16
- Meeting #3 – May
8
- Meeting #4 – May
19
- Meeting #5 - June
3
- Meeting #6 – June
18
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The Blue Ribbon Committee examining the
future of St Luke's will receive input from the community through a
series of forum meetings involving various stake holder groups. March
19th will be the opportunity for St. Luke's Medical Staff to give its
input und opinions on the health care needs in the south of Market
areas. Steve Lockhart, John Golenski, and Nancy Shemick will
lead the forum and record comments made for presentation to the Blue
Ribbon Committee which has its first meeting on March 20th at Grace
Cathedral, California and Taylor Woolsey Conference Center.
This is our first chance to affect the outcome or this process
determining the future of our hospital. We are asking for a second date
as well for doctors who can’t get to this mee6ng, however, due to the
large number of interested parties that need input, a second meeting
cannot he guaranteed at this time.
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The emergency medical services system in the city has seen an increase
of wait times by ambulance patients over the past few years.
Correspondingly the number of emergency departments available in the
system has also decreased. The situation may be especially exacerbated
by a possible closure of the Saint Luke’s Hospital emergency department.
If Saint Luke’s was to lose its emergency services availability, the
remaining emergency department immediately available to the southern
half of county will be at San Francisco General Hospital. A “diversion”
of an ambulance carrying an emergent patient from SFGH to another
facility may mean a delay of another 20 to 30 minutes for that patient.
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After months of negotiations we continue to remain far apart on contract
settlement because of the refusal of the management team to compromise on
their final offer that nurses have to reject. Nurses have helped CPMC rank
in the top percentiles for patient care and satisfaction because of the
outstanding care we provide to our patients, while often sacrificing our own
health and safety.
See a summary of our proposals, many of which are standard for CNA union
contracts.
The list of community, government, health, business and labor leaders who
have committed themselves to helping plan out the future for St. Luke’s is
continuing to grow.
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Blue Ribbon Panel Latest More names added to
list of experts planning for future of St. Luke’s
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Proposed changes may leave the area south of Market Street with only
one full-service hospital.
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San Francisco, CA (February 13, 2008)
- Under the guidance of Supervisor Michela Alioto-¬Pier and Dr. Mitch Katz,
Director of San Francisco's Department of Public Health a public-¬private
planning process is being developed to ensure California Pacific Medical
Center (CPMC) plays its appropriate part in promoting the health care needs
of all San Franciscans. A "Blue Ribbon" panel of leaders in health,
business, conmunity, and labor is being convened to develop a viable plan
for acute care hospital and outpatient services at CPMC's St. Luke's campus
which complements and is supported by CPMC's current institutional plan for
its other campuses.
We are pleased that
Stephen M. Shortell,
PhD, MPH, Dean and professor at the School of Public Health at UC
Berkeley has agreed to chair the panel. He will be joined by the
Rt. Rev. Marc
Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of California is as vice-chair.
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Blue Ribbon Panel on St. Luke's Future -
From the February 2008
edition of the St. Luke’s Medical Staff Newsletter, Heartbeat
A Blue Ribbon Panel is being formed to develop a plan under
which St. Luke's could remain open as a viable in-patient facility.
This is coming about as a result of the shared leadership and vision of
City Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, Public Health Director Dr. Mitch
Katz, and our CEO, Dr. Martin Brotman. The Panel's charter states
clearly the common goal as follows, "… an inclusive public-private
planning process that will ensure that CPMC bears its appropriate share
of responsibility for the health care needs of all San Franciscans. To
that end, CPMC is convening a "Blue Ribbon" panel of leaders in health,
business, community, and labor to develop a plan for acute care hospital
and outpatient services at CPMC's St. Luke's campus which complements
and is supported by CPMC's current institutional plan for its other
campuses." (italics added)
The Charity Care Report for 2006 is available on the DPH Website at the
following link:
http://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/reports/PolPlanRpts.asp.
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Community outrage about plans to close St. Luke’s Hospital is making
Sutter CMPC nervous! They have announced a taskforce to review the
future of the hospital, but they have not taken their plan to close the
hospital off the table. CPMC is still reducing services while trying to
get their taskforce process underway. More community action and public
attention is needed. Join the Coalition to Save St. Luke’s for a
community candlelight vigil. The announcement is below and flyers are
attached. We will be having another big coalition meeting in the
upcoming month.
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 Blue
ribbon panel to discuss hospital's future, Fog City Journal, A "blue ribbon panel" of hospital officials and community members will
likely convene in February to consider the future of St. Luke's Hospital, an
acute-care facility serving many low-income minority and elderly residents
of San Francisco's lower Mission and South of Market neighborhoods.Officials with the California Pacific Medical Center, which began
overseeing St. Luke's in 2007, told a committee of the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors on Thursday that the panel would include representatives of
the business, medical and labor communities, as well as the medical center.
California Pacific Medical Center officials are attempting to quell fears
by some residents that their hospital services will diminish, or even that
the hospital will be closed.
The center's spokesman, Kevin McCormack, said Thursday that there are no
plans to close the hospital, rather the panel will consider whether the
hospital's acute care services will remain - and if so, in what form - or be
transferred to other locations, he said. "The basic patient care that's
always been there, that stays," said McCormack. Photo by
Luke Thomas
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Sutter, medical center and SF city officials agree to study St. Luke's
Sacramento Business Journal - by Chris Rauber Staff
writer -
San Francisco city officials and hospital giant Sutter Health and its
California Pacific Medical Center -- which run St. Luke's Hospital --
have agreed to create a panel to help "determine the future" of the
troubled safety-net hospital by this June, according to CPMC and the
city.
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Healthcare Workers Skeptical of Planning Process for St. Luke's Healthcare workers skeptical of planning process for St. Luke's UHW
praises city officials' efforts, questions Sutter's intentions. Sal
Rosselli, President of SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West (UHW),
representing 1,200 caregivers employed by CPMC and St. Luke's Hospital,
said this.
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Blue Ribbon Panel Being Formed to Save St. Luke's: Press Conference 11 AM
January 23: Supervisor Alioto-Pier and Dr. Mitch Katz will host a press
conference tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in front of St. Luke's Hospital. The
pressc onference will outline the creation of a Blue Ribbon Panel with the
goal to keep St. Luke's open as a viable acute care hospital.
Both the Supervisor and Dr. Katz have reached an agreement with CPMC on a
process to maintain St. Luke's. Key leaders in health care, such as
yourselves, as well as business, community and labor leaders (including CNA
and SEIU) will be invited to participate in the Blue Ribbon Panel to develop
a plan to basically save St. Luke's.
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Hearing on Closure of 10th Floor and its Impact on Patient and Staff
Conditions on the 9th Floor is set for held Thursday,
January 24 at 1:00 PM City Hall, Second Floor, Room
TBA [tentative date] in response to concern about the closure of our
Surgical/Oncology 10th Floor, and the resulting stress to staff and patients
on the 9th Floor. We particularly need Surgeons, Internists, Family Practitioners in
addition to nurses, to testify. Those of you planning to testify are encouraged to view
Video on the Hearing for the City Operations and Neighborhood
Service Committee on the closure of 10 and conditions on 9 to
see what testimony has already been heard.
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California Pacific acquires lease on Folsom Street office building,
San Francisco's largest
hospital has signed one of the city's biggest office deals in the last 12
months as it continues to shuffle real estate holdings to comply with state
seismic requirements.
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You can help us keep the momentum going by
signing the online petition and:
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See how you can help
us by inviting your friends to join and contacting people on the
Public Health Commission, Board of Supervisors, and executives of
Sutter Health.
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Rebuttals of CPMC's claims that St. Luke's should be closed presented by
our doctors. NEW!
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Your Stories:
send in your story telling how St. Luke's is important to you and we'll
share it here.
Check back to see new stories
from St. Luke's patients and families as they are posted.
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What are our hopes for St.
Luke's?
What does our community need?
What would a revitalized, and invigorated St. Luke's hospital look like?
What are Share your thoughts through comments posted on this blog or send your idea
to
hopes@savestlukes.org. NEW!
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Saving St. Luke's Blog: The latest news in the community based fight
to save San Francisco's Saint Luke's Hospital. Includes breaking news along
with point by point rebuttals of the claims by those who would close our
hospital.
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Online
petition: sign up to help save San Francisco's St. Luke's Hospital
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News: News releases
and reports about the fight to keep St. Luke's Hospital open. NOW
INCLUDES PHOTOS FROM SOME STORIES!
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Help us: how you can join in the effort to save
this community based hospital.
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History: how St. Luke's came to be one of San
Francisco's great community hospitals.
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Why we care: why doctors, nurses and people from
the community want to keep St. Luke's open.
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See the Oct. 25, 2007 Hearing before the
Neighborhood Services Committee of the Board of Supervisors (titled
BOS City Operations and Neighborhood Services) .
This video is provided by SFGTV, which provides an archive of selected meetings
that have occurred during the past year.
Video
on Demand lets you watch these programs at your convenience.
To view meetings you will need Windows Media Player. (See
System Requirements)
Pictured above: one of our happy Mothers & her child who tell their story in the
St. Luke's Story Blog.
Why save St. Luke's?
St. Luke's has kept its doors open for 136 years in service to our
community. We have a busy obstetrics service and emergency department that
fulfill the original mission of the hospital.
Founding Mission Statement (1871)
"St. Luke's doors are open wide for the reception of all colors,
nationalities and creeds. Its benefits, refused to none, will be limited only by
its means."
-Rev. Dr. Brotherton, Founder St. Luke's Hospital
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