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Committee continues subacute‑care reporting ordinance after emotional public pleas for local beds
Summary
After family members described forcing loved ones out of San Francisco for subacute skilled nursing care, the committee voted 3-0 to continue an ordinance amendment to its March 24 meeting to allow additional amendments and engagement with DPH and hospitals.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on March 10 voted to continue an ordinance that would amend demographic reporting for patients transferred out of San Francisco for subacute skilled nursing care, after multiple callers urged the city to act to restore and expand local subacute beds.
Several family members described the personal impact of the shortage. “My sister, Sandra, she has a tracheostomy and needs constant monitoring of her airway... She is one of the 8…
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