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Committee advances ordinance requiring hospitals to report out‑of‑county transfers for subacute care
Summary
The committee recommended a San Francisco Health Code amendment directing hospitals and hospital‑based skilled nursing facilities to annually report patient counts and demographics for out‑of‑county transfers for subacute skilled nursing care and for eligible in‑city patients not transferred; the file was duplicated for further amendments and will go to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
Supervisor Gordon Marr—s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on Thursday recommended that the Board of Supervisors advance an ordinance requiring general acute care hospitals and hospital‑based skilled nursing facilities to report annually to the Department of Public Health on (1) the number and demographic characteristics of patients transferred outside San Francisco for subacute skilled nursing care and (2) patients who qualify for subacute care but were not transferred.
Bill Barnes of Supervisor Safaie—s office, who presented the…
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