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Committee report: public-health lab capacity and Hummingbird psychiatric respite show early results
Summary
Commissioner Loyce reported the public-health lab will move to Building 5 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General in 2021 to expand capacity, and a Hummingbird Place psychiatric-respite program reported about a 67% reduction in PES/hospital readmissions over its first year.
Commissioner Loyce summarized two Community and Public Health Committee presentations for the full commission. She said the San Francisco Department of Public Health Public Health Laboratory described strategies for specimen testing and staff development; Loyce said the lab is a statewide center of excellence and has a planned move to Building 5 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General in 2021 to increase space and capability.
Loyce also reported on Hummingbird Place, a 14-bed psychiatric respite program presented by Louis Calderon. She told commissioners that Hummingbird focuses on individualized, harm-reduction care and works to connect clients to community placements at discharge. The committee was told Hummingbird reduced PES and other hospital readmissions by about 67 percent in approximately one year of operation, improving transitions of care and potentially saving revenue for the department.
Commissioners asked about discharge locations labeled "to the street" and data availability. The director said the program encourages return to day programs and that PRC, the provider, had not yet provided full discharge-location data to the department for the committee presentation; staff said they are collecting the missing information for follow-up.
