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Health director details 27 temporary "hummingbird" beds at ZSFG, cites federal policy shifts and public-charge litigation
Summary
San Franciscos health director reported converting 27 unoccupied boarding-care beds at Zuckerberg San Francisco General into temporary "hummingbird" beds for people living on the street (no current residents displaced), and said the city is withdrawing from Title X and joined a legal challenge to the revised public-charge rule.
Doctor Colfax, Director of Health, delivered the departments report and highlighted several operational and policy items. He said Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is converting 27 previously unoccupied boarding-care beds into temporary "hummingbird" beds to provide immediate placements for people living on the street; the department emphasized that no current residents will lose housing as a result and that the beds could revert to long-term care in mid-2021.
"No one is losing housing," Doctor Colfax said, describing the change as an interim response to urgent…
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