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Health Commission urged to act as Laguna Honda recertification proceeds and callers demand Prop Q hearing
Summary
Public commenters and clinicians urged the San Francisco Health Commission to hold a Prop Q hearing after hospital-affiliated warm-water therapy programs were reduced or closed; Director Grant Colfax said DPH remains committed to Laguna Honda's CMS recertification and that transfers would not resume before May 19 while the closure plan awaits CMS and state approval.
Public commenters and clinicians asked the San Francisco Health Commission on Tuesday to press hospitals and city leaders to restore hospital-based warm-water therapeutic programs and to schedule a Proposition Q hearing on service closures.
"The warm water exercise program was the best medicine I could ever have," said Billie Jean Wall, a longtime participant, who described worsening mobility, increased procedures and more frequent pain since the program stopped. Colette Hughes and other callers made similar appeals, saying aquatic therapy at hospital-based pools had provided medically supervised rehabilitation for elders and people with disabilities and should not be dropped for budgetary reasons.
Director of Health Grant Colfax…
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