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DPH details bed expansions, $21M state grant to convert SFGH floors to locked subacute units
Summary
Director Tsai told the commission that DPH received $21 million in state Prop 1 funding to convert two floors at San Francisco General into locked subacute units, described a 70+ bed expansion with HSH, and said resident transitions and staffing conversations are underway with unions and clinicians.
DPH Director Grant Colfax Tsai updated the Health Commission on efforts to expand behavioral health treatment capacity, calling attention to newly awarded state capital funding and plans to stand up additional locked subacute beds.
Tsai said the department received $21,000,000 in state Prop 1 funding to convert two floors of San Francisco General’s behavioral health center into locked subacute units to address a documented deficit of that level of care. ‘‘We received good news around the $21,000,000 of state funding to be able to do the…
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