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City officials and health leaders say hiring times at SFGH have dropped after process overhaul
Summary
Supervisors and Department of Public Health officials reported progress cutting time-to-hire for nurses and other classifications at San Francisco General Hospital after a joint DPH/DHR process redesign, but nurses and staff urged continued focus on ancillary roles, retention and registry use ahead of the new hospital opening.
Supervisor John Avalos opened a Budget and Finance Committee hearing on May 13 by asking the Department of Public Health to report on staffing levels at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and progress since a prior hearing about long hiring timelines.
Barbara Garcia, Director of the Department of Public Health, told the committee that DPH and its human resources team had prioritized Affordable Care Act readiness and a major hiring push tied to the new SFGH. Garcia said the department had increased recruitment and worked with unions and DHR to speed hiring while trying to preserve merit-based civil service safeguards.
Ted Yamasaki of the Department of Human Resources said that a cross-agency,…
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