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Supervisors Hear Months-Long Debate Over Closure of SF General Workers’ Comp Clinic
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee held an extended hearing on the Department of Public Health plan to stop new patients at the SF General workers’ compensation clinic on Feb. 1 and close it March 15; DPH said the cut would save roughly $730,000, while staff, clinicians and unions warned closure could raise long-term workers’ compensation costs and eliminate free nurse case management.
The Budget and Finance Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on the proposed closure of the San Francisco General Hospital workers’ compensation clinic, during which Department of Public Health Director Mitch Katz said the department intends to stop accepting new patients Feb. 1 and close the clinic on March 15 as part of cost-cutting measures.
"We are set to close March 15, and that's to assure an orderly transition," said Mitch Katz, explaining the department’s decision and adding that the closure would produce an immediate general fund savings of about $730,000.
The committee and staff pressed DPH for analysis demonstrating a net citywide savings. Budget analyst Ken Bruce and Monique Smuda from the controller’s office said no intra-clinic comparison exists that reliably shows whether the public clinic produces lower total workers’…
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