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| Laguna Honda Hospital Replacement
Project to Rebuild 1,200 Beds |
In chronolgical order:
- December 1998 Options for Laguna Honda White Paper, authored
by Mitchell Katz, MD, Director of Public Health.
- Legal text of “Proposition A” contained in the 1999
General Election Voter Guide.
- Paid arguments for and
against “Proposition A” contained in the Voter Guide.
- Board of Supervisors Ordinance 191-03 passed in July 2003 permitted
a raid of the tobacco settlement funds in order to balance former
mayor Willie Brown’s final City budget; the ordinance was
unanimously passed by the full Board of Supervisors, including
then supervisor Gavin Newsom.
- The Board of Supervisors settled an unlitigated
claim that the misappropriated $25 million was improper and illegal;
the settlement with former City Attorney Louise
Renned diverted the $25 million a second time into buying furniture,
fixture, and equipment (FFE), an expenditure not permitted under
Proposition A.
- Letter from the law firm
that represented plaintiffs in the above settlement reveals diverting
the $25 million misappropriated funds into FFE was improper.
(Hit your browser’s “Back” button after
review to return to this page.)
- Healthcare activist lawsuit filed in Superior Court seeking to
have the $25 million misappropriated from the LHH Rebuild Project
budget returned to the tobacco settlement account.
— One-page summary of above lawsuit.
— Reply to the City’s Opposition; heard
in Superior Court on March 15, 2005 at 9:30 a.m.
— March 22, 2005 Judicial Notice to Superior Court of the
March 15, 2005 LHH presentation to the Health Commission in which
the project manager recommends rebuilding only 360 of LHH’s
1,200 beds.
- A joint-agency complaint seeks to have both the Civil
Grand Jury and the Citizen’s General Obligation Bond Oversight
Committee investigate the misappropriation of $25 million from
the LHH Replacement Project budget. (Hit your browser’s
“Back” button after review to return to this page.)
- March 15, 2005 3:00 p.m. recommendation presented to San Francisco
Health Commission to begin building only 360 new beds at LHH.
— One-page flyer rebutting whether there is sufficient
money to rebuild only 360 beds at LHH.
- Dr. Katz’s June 7 memo to the Health Commission regarding the
LHH replacement project. This is initial information that
was supposed to have been forthcoming in a new DPH “White
Paper” on the LHH rebuild in response to the two financing
options for the project presented by City Controller Ed Harrington.
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| LHH Admissions Policy Dispute |
In chronolgical order:
- Transcript
of June 24, 2004 Board of Supervisors’
City Services Committee Hearing on LHH Admissions Policy.
— Partial rebuttal of testimony presented on June 24
by Mitchell Katz, Director of Public Health.
— Information Packet #1 from LHH physicians
to then Supervisor Tony Hall.
— Information Packet #2 from LHH physicians
to then Supervisor Tony Hall.
- Citizen taxpayer lawsuit to stop the unsafe LHH admissions
policy change.
- An analysis of the five separate versions of
the LHH admissions policy that were posted to the LHH intranet
during 2004. The
December 16, 2004 version of the admission policy giving patients
at SFGH first priority for admission to LHH remains posted to
the intranet as of April 1, 2005,
despite the fact that on February 15, 2005, Mayor Newsom ordered
Dr. Katz to return the policy to its pre-March 2004 status.
As of April 1, 2005 the
LHH admission policy has not reverted to its pre-March 2004 status. as ordered by the Mayor.
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| SFGH-to-LHH Patient “Flow Project” |
In chronolgical order:
- December 16, 2004 memo by Gregg Sass, Department of Public
Health’s Chief Financial Officer on “Economic Impact
of the SFGH–LHH Patient Flow Policy Change.”
— A January 24, 2005 analysis by LHH admitting physician, Dr.
Maria Rivero, who rebutted the flawed rationale used by DPH Chief
Financial Officer Gregg Sass in his December 16 economic impact
memo.
— A flyer titled “Rebuttal to Economic Impact
of the SFGH to LHH Patient Flow Project” that was presented
as part of public testimony during the February 18 Mayor’s
Disability Council’ meeting.
- January 20, 2005 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) issued by
LHH Executive Administrator claimed “the quantitative evidence
thus far does not indicate a marked change in services to the
elderly [at LHH].”
— One-page flyer “Rebutal: People Over Age 70 Aren’t
Getting Admitted to LHH.”
— A detailed rebuttal to FAQ will follow.
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| LHH Social Rehabilitation Grant/Behavioral
Health |
In chronolgical order:
- The initial Social Rehabilitation grant application to the California HealthCare
Foundation (CHCH)
- CHCF’s Reviewers Concerns
- LHH’ Response to the CHCF Reviewers’ Concerns
- Public testimony to the Board of Supervisors’
City Services Committee, January 27, 2005
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| Fact Sheets, FAQ’s, and White
Papers |
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| Other Flyers |
- Two-page flyer October 15, 2004: “Future of Laguna
Honda Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Home Services At Risk.”
(Note: Composition of Board of Supervisor’s
has now changd.)
- November 16, 2004 Health Commission Meeting on LHH [this meeting was
suddenly cancelled and not held as scheduled].
- December 16, 2004 Town Hall Meeting sponsored
by a neighborhood association at St. Brendan’s Parish Hall.
- February 23, 2005 Town
Hall Meeting sponsored by Laguna Honda Hospital and the San Francisco
Department of Public Health.
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