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Supervisors hear hours of testimony on UCSF’s planned purchase of St. Francis and St. Mary’s; committee files hearing and asks for enforceable commitments
Summary
At a lengthy Rules Committee hearing, UCSF promised to retain staff, maintain services and invest $75–100 million for immediate repairs while nurses, unions and community members urged enforceable safeguards to protect charity care, specialty services and staffing; the committee filed the hearing and requested written commitments and ongoing monitoring.
The San Francisco Rules Committee on March 18 held an extended hearing on the proposed acquisition by UCSF Health of Dignity Health’s local hospitals, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and Saint Mary’s Medical Center. Supervisor Safai convened the hearing to examine the acquisition’s likely effects on staffing, specialty services (including the city’s only burn center and adolescent psychiatric units), charity care and access for vulnerable patients.
Shay Strahan (vice president of partnerships for UCSF Health’s affiliate network) presented UCSF’s commitments: the hospitals would remain full-service community hospitals, open medical staff models would be retained, collective bargaining agreements would be honored, no layoffs were planned as part of the transaction, and UCSF…
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