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DPH reports falling vacancy rates, new recruitment events; unions urge city to unfreeze physician slots
Summary
DPH presented an update showing reduced vacancy and turnover rates, improvements in nurse hiring, and active recruitment for behavioral health clinicians. Union stewards and commissioners urged the mayor's office to unfreeze physician positions that remain paused after the city hiring freeze, citing the cyclical nature of medical training.
Louanna Kim, Chief Human Resources Officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, briefed the Health Commission on May 5 on a multi-quarter human resources update showing lower vacancy rates and improved retention.
Kim said DPH has centralized onboarding, standardized equity and compliance training, expanded professional development, and strengthened labor-management committees. She reported reductions in overall vacancy and turnover and said nurse vacancies are now below 5% (down from 14% in 2021) while behavioral health clinician vacancies have fallen to about 10%.
Kim outlined key metrics: average time from request-to-fill to start date for hires in the current fiscal year was…
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