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Hospital staff, advocates clash in public comments over deputies at SF General and funding for CART
Summary
During general public comment at the June 29 Board of Supervisors meeting, nurses and other hospital staff urged the board to keep sheriff's deputies at San Francisco General for security; advocates and community groups urged the board to fund the Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART) and invest in community-based responses.
Dozens of callers addressed hospital safety, homelessness response and city funding priorities during public comment at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' June 29 meeting. The remarks revealed a clear divide: emergency-department clinicians and hospital staff reported repeated on-the-job assaults and argued deputies were needed for workplace safety; homelessness and health advocates urged the board to shift funds to community-led responses such as the Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART).
Nurses and emergency staff described frequent violent incidents at San Francisco General Hospital and urged the board not to remove deputies from the hospital. "We have a long history of violence at the hospital... Nurses have been thrown to the floor, punched, hit, spit on," said Mike…
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