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Planning commission keeps CPMC’s master plan open after marathon hearing; schedules Nov. 19 follow‑up
Summary
After more than four hours of public testimony, the Planning Commission continued California Pacific Medical Center’s Institutional Master Plan hearing to Nov. 19 and asked CPMC for clearer, written responses about tenant relocation, outpatient services and skilled‑nursing/psychiatric bed plans. Commissioners and community groups pressed the hospital for firmer commitments on how services will be distributed across the city and how displaced tenants and small businesses will be rehoused.
California Pacific Medical Center planners presented a multi‑campus Institutional Master Plan to the San Francisco Planning Commission on Oct. 15, 2009, and the meeting stretched into the night as residents, nurses, physicians, labor and neighborhood groups spoke for and against the proposal. Commissioners left the public hearing open and continued the item to Nov. 19 so CPMC can provide clearer, written responses to specific issues raised at the meeting.
The hospital team — led by Jeffrey Nelson, director of enterprise development, and Judy Lee, CPMC vice president for community benefit and health‑care innovation — framed the plan as a multi‑year strategy to replace aging seismically‑vulnerable facilities, consolidate certain specialty services and improve access to specialty women’s and children’s care. Nelson said consolidation is intended to retain clinical capabilities that are “clinically superior and financially achievable,” and the submission included program…
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