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Staff recommends CPMC compliant for 2021; commissioners press Sutter on labor-and-delivery, subacute beds and Tenderloin services
Summary
City staff recommended that directors find Sutter Health—s California Pacific Medical Center in compliance with the Van Ness/Gary development agreement for 2021, while commissioners and public speakers urged action on the closure of labor-and-delivery services, a shortage of subacute/SNF beds, and limited new Medi-Cal enrollment in the Tenderloin.
San Francisco planning and health staff told a joint hearing on May 11, 2023, that California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), part of Sutter Health, met most obligations in the Van Ness/Gary development agreement for calendar year 2021, but flagged several ongoing community concerns.
Elizabeth Pearl of the Planning Department and Max Grama of the Department of Public Health summarized the annual review process and recommended that the directors of planning and public health find CPMC in compliance for 2021. Staff said Deloitte verified CPMC—s charity-care and community-benefit reporting: CPMC reported caring for 30,779 unduplicated charity/medical patients in 2021 (the DA baseline was 30,345) and reported roughly $16.5 million in community benefits against an $8 million requirement. An innovation fund referenced in the DA totaled $8.6 million across four years and was completed in 2020.
Despite those findings, commissioners pressed staff and CPMC representatives about several unresolved service issues. DPH and planning staff said labor-and-delivery inpatient services at the Mission Bernal campus were temporarily relocated during the COVID surge and…
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