City staff recommend finding CPMC in compliance with development agreement for 2022–23

San Francisco planning and public-health staff told a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the Health Commission on Thursday that California Pacific Medical Center appears to have met the bulk of its obligations under its development agreement (DA) for the combined reporting years 2022 and 2023, and recommended the directors of planning and public health find CPMC compliant for those years.

The recommendation was presented by Tina Tam of the Planning Department, who opened the informational hearing on case 2016-4775 MCM and described the final annual review required by the DA. Tam said the directors will make the official determination after the hearing and that a third-party monitor will then review the directors' finding and notify the Board of Supervisors whether it concurs.

The hearing covered three major areas in the DA: fee‑increase audits, workforce hiring and training commitments, and health‑care commitments and community benefits. Ithaca Hussain of the San Francisco Health Service System and Maxwell Guerra of the Department of Public Health presented compliance details on the DA’s health provisions; Lowell Rice of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development presented on hiring goals and the CPMC workforce fund.

On finances and community benefits, staff reported that Sutter Health completed the DA payment obligations with total payments of more than $73,000,000 for the combined reporting period. The third‑party audit work on fee increases was performed by an actuarial firm; staff said the review is…