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Director highlights overdose roadmap and MPox progress; public presses LHH recertification and operational questions
Summary
Health Director Grant Colfax announced a roadmap to reduce overdose deaths, noted progress preparing Laguna Honda for recertification and provided COVID and MPox updates. A public commenter later raised specific questions on Laguna Honda's kitchen floor, freezer replacement, vendor selection and CMS recertification timelines.
Director Grant Colfax briefed the Health Commission on Oct. 4 with multiple operational updates, including a new strategic roadmap aimed at reducing drug overdose deaths and progress on Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center—s recertification preparations.
Colfax described the overdose roadmap—s near‑term goals: reducing overdose deaths in San Francisco by 15 percent by 2025, reducing racial disparities in overdose deaths by 30 percent by 2025, and increasing the number of people receiving medications for addiction treatment by 30 percent by 2025. The plan calls for creating…
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