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Health Commission holds Prop Q hearing after St. Mary's wound clinic closed without timely notice
Summary
At a first Proposition Q hearing, St. Mary's Medical Center's new leadership apologized for failing to give timely notice before closing its PROS and Wound Care Clinic in August 2016; commissioners asked the hospital and department staff to track where patients were referred and to return with data.
The San Francisco Health Commission held a Proposition Q hearing on the closure of St. Mary's PROS and Wound Care Wound Clinic, learning that the clinic closed in August 2016 and the hospital notified the Department of Public Health on Feb. 7, 2017.
Christian Patel, a planner in the Department's Office of Policy and Planning, told commissioners that the clinic served about 437 patients in mid-2016 and that St. Mary's provided additional data to the department on May 17. Commission staff said the delay in notification and the time gap make it difficult to determine the full impact of the closure on patients.
Representatives of St. Mary's acknowledged the lapse. The hospital's new president (name not stated) apologized and said…
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