Health Care Services Master Plan Task Force Community Meeting - 3/22

Thursday, March 22, in the Alex L. Pitcher, Jr. Community Room at the Southeast Community Facility, 1800 Oakdale Ave, from 5PM - 7:30PM, there will be a chance to share your views on health care access in San Francisco, particularly as it relates to the Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods.

Required by San Francisco Ordinance No. 300-11, the San  Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and Planning Department must create a Health Care Services Master Plan (HCSMP) for the City. The HCSMP will:

• Identify the current and future need for  health care services in San Francisco; and 
• Provide recommendations on how to achieve and maintain fair access to health care services in San Francisco.

To help create the HCSMP, SFDPH has formed a 40-member Task Force that represents a wide variety of health care providers, consumers, and  other stakeholders. (Please go here to learn more about the Task Force.) Since it began in July 2011, this Task Force has met at various neighborhood locations to get community feedback on San Franciscans’ access to health care  services and on what improvements could be made to improve that  access.

The Task Force will next meet on Thursday, March 22, from 5pm to 7:30pm at the Southeast Community Facility (1800 Oakdale Ave.) in the Alex  L. Pitcher, Jr. Community Room.  Please consider attending, as the Task Force will discuss health care in your neighborhood. The Task Force wants to hear directly from residents and neighborhood organizations, so it can  better suggest HCSMP recommendations that reflect the voice and needs of the  community.  Interpretation services will be available in Spanish and  Cantonese.  SFDPH will respond other requests for interpretation as  needed.
For more information about interpretation please contact Darlene Daevu (415.255.3426) at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.

Anyone unable to attend on March 22 is welcome to attend future Task Force meetings regardless of their location.  All meetings are listed on the SFDPH website as are all meeting materials.  The Task Force welcomes public comment not only in person at a scheduled meeting, but also via email at hcsmptf.dph@sfdph.org.

Thank you for your time and interest.  The  HCSMP Task Force looks forward to hearing from you. Should you have any  questions in the interim, please contact Lori Cook at  415.554.2894.

Free Tdap (Whooping Cough) Vaccination Clinic

San Francisco Department of Public Health
Free Tdap (Whooping Cough) Vaccination Clinic for San Francisco students entering 7th-12th grades this year
All Students MUST come with a Parent/Guardian
or
A signed parental consent form and a non-guardian adult

Parking (5 blocks from clinic) at SFUSD District office 555 Franklin St. Entrance on McAllister (between Franklin St. & Gough St.)

Saturday, August 6th, 2011 1:00pm - 4:00pm
151 Oak Street (Gymnasium)
(between Gough St. & Franklin St.)
French American International School / International High School

For more information, visit http://www.sfcdcp.org/tdapclinics

SF Public Health Department ethics under investigation – hearing June 23

From The Bay View,

The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the ethics of the Department of Public Health and the Lennar Corp. related to the department’s role regulating environmental health impacts Thursday, June 23, at 1 p.m. in City Hall, Room 263. The hearing was called in response to a community report released by Bayview Hunters Point community organizations in the SLAM Coalition earlier this spring exposing email communication the Health Department and Lennar in an effort to conceal information about adverse health impacts.

The report details a series of emails since 2006 between EPA, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and Lennar that reveal a manipulation of facts in order to conceal information regarding asbestos exposure from construction activities at the Shipyard and present false claims in support of Lennar’s redevelopment plan. The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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