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Committee hears proposal to double EMS penalty assessment; SFGH seeks $789,715 reprogramming for inventory system upgrade
Summary
Committee reviewed an ordinance to raise an EMS penalty assessment (doubling the per-$10 assessment from $2 to $4) and a Department of Public Health request to reprogram $789,715 at San Francisco General for a proprietary McKesson inventory/purchasing system upgrade; public health and emergency medicine speakers supported the measures.
The committee considered two health-related budget measures Tuesday: an ordinance to increase an EMS penalty assessment on criminal fines and a Department of Public Health request to reprogram $789,715 at San Francisco General Hospital to upgrade its materials and supplies inventory and purchasing system.
Michael Petrie, the department administrator, said the ordinance would double the statutory assessment that currently allocates about $523,000 annually to the EMS fund; raising the per-$10 assessment from $2 to $4 would raise…
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