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Committee advances subacute care reporting ordinance after debate, continues item for final vote
Summary
Supervisors expanded a health‑code reporting ordinance to include skilled nursing facilities, heard DPH and advocates describe data and bed constraints, accepted amendments and continued the ordinance to April 14 for final action and additional DPH input.
The Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee on March 24 advanced an ordinance that would require general acute care hospitals — and under recent amendments, certain skilled nursing providers — to report annually to the Department of Public Health on patients transferred out of San Francisco County for subacute and nursing care and on in‑county patients who qualify for such care but are not transferred.
Sponsor Supervisor Safa (Safaee) framed the measure as a transparency and accountability tool to track how and why San Franciscans requiring subacute and skilled nursing care are moved out of county. He…
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