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Board affirms emergency contract to replace aging generators at San Francisco General, amid questions over three-year delay
Summary
The board approved an emergency public work contract to install a modern diesel emergency-generation system at San Francisco General Hospital after department officials and engineers described repeated catastrophic failures of equipment installed in 1972 and said delays would risk the hospital rebuild schedule.
Lede: The Board of Supervisors on Jan. 27 adopted a resolution authorizing emergency public-works contracting to install a new permanent emergency electric generation system at San Francisco General Hospital, citing repeated failures of the hospital's antiquated steam-driven generators and urgent patient-safety risks.
Nut graf: The Department of Public Works and hospital staff told the board the system, installed in 1972, has reached the end of its useful life and had multiple recent failures; staff said regulatory and financing constraints and a lengthy state hospital planning approval process had delayed a long-term replacement and that continuing the…
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