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Health commission holds Prop Q hearing on CPMCs Mission Bernal labor and delivery closure; requests more data before Nov. 5 vote
Summary
San Franciscos health commission heard DPH and CPMC presentations on the permanent closure of labor and delivery services at CPMC Mission Bernal, received clinician testimony supporting consolidation at Van Ness, and asked DPH/CPMC for ZIP-code birth rates, transportation access, and patient-satisfaction data ahead of a Nov. 5 vote.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Oct. 15 held the first of two Proposition Q hearings on California Pacific Medical Centers (CPMC) notice of permanent closure of the labor and delivery unit at its Mission Bernal campus.
In a department presentation, Claire Altman, senior health program planner for San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH), summarized Prop Q (a voter measure passed in 1988), the closure timeline and data analysis. DPH said Mission Bernal accounted for about 7% of city deliveries in 2019 (roughly 800 of some 11,600 city births), served a higher-than-average share of patients who identify as Latinx, Black/African American or multi-ethnic, and had a larger proportion of patients covered by Medi-Cal. DPH reported Mission Bernal had…
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