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DPH annual report highlights MPOX response, clinic reopenings; Laguna HondaCMS recertification and census draw questions

San Francisco Health Commission · February 6, 2024
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DPH's FY2022-23 annual report highlighted its MPOX vaccine response, behavioral health expansion and three clinic reopenings. Commissioners heard updates on Laguna Honda Hospital's plans of correction and members of the public demanded more detail about patient discharges and recertification timing.

Michelle Ko, a health program planner in DPH's Office of Policy and Planning, presented the departments FY2022-23 annual report and walked commissioners through features and data required by the city administrative code.

Ko highlighted DPHs response to the MPOX outbreak, noting that San Francisco administered more than 55,000 MPOX vaccine doses between May 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 and achieved one of the highest vaccination coverage rates in the country. She also summarized behavioral health investments: release of an overdose prevention plan, creation of an Office of Overdose Prevention, expansion of residential…

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