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DPH director outlines new treatment‑bed expansions, $21 million for locked subacute beds at San Francisco General
Summary
Director Evelyn Tsai told the Health Commission the department won state capital funding including roughly $21 million for San Francisco General to convert two floors to locked subacute units and secured funding to renovate a dual‑diagnosis residential program.
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Evelyn Tsai told the Health Commission the department has won state funding for capital projects and is expanding treatment‑level capacity across the city.
Tsai said the department requested multiple items under the state's Proposition 1 funding and received support for two of the six requests. She told commissioners that the first award—about $21,000,000—will fund conversion of two floors at San Francisco General Hospital into locked subacute units, increasing the city's capacity for people who require locked, subacute care but not full inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. "We received good news around the 21,000,000 of state funding to be able to do the conversion at San Francisco…
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