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Health Department outlines Urgent Care SF plan, ARF reopening timeline and new conservatorship tool
Summary
Director Grama Colfax told the Health Commission the mayor's Urgent Care SF initiative targets about 4,000 highest‑need people and would add 1,000 behavioral‑health beds; she described an agreed path to restore the adult residential facility to a 41‑bed final state and said the governor signed "SB 40," which officials said expands temporary conservatorship options.
San Francisco's Department of Public Health director Grama Colfax told the Health Commission on Oct. 1 that the mayor's Urgent Care SF initiative is a data‑driven effort focused on the city's most frequent users of emergency and behavioral‑health services.
Colfax said the program targets roughly 4,000 people the department has identified as most in need and described a proposed expansion "of 1,000 beds in our behavioral health system" including residential and board‑and‑care capacity. "This initiative…
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