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We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Go...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

Prints and came here to exz spress concern there isnt agreement on the [inaudible] as you heard doctor browner announced they reached ongrument with saint ant in a. I think this week [inaudible] she has been very open with us about the progress. I hope this is good news. I expect it is good news. Saint anteany is a credible provider. There was a meeting in the tender loan erloin who expressed a intres in being able to tell cpmc what thairb preference would be and how to get helt care in the tend...

Procedures require longer term patient interaction and follow up to maintain high quality care and this can cause confusion for patients who may not know where to go and requires a lot of Data Exchange between providers in Different Networks that our systems are not set up to exchange at this time. Finally it had to be within cpmc ability to provide. As supervisors may know, position employed in hospitals are largely independent oceans and not employed by the hospital so we need today have the a...

Conducted by cultural ling ristic access expert within the department of public health. One was a high level hospital wide review that looks at cpmc as a whole. The second was a more in depth review focused on the diabetes clinic at saint lukes. There is staffing changes relate today the saint lukes dibeaty clinic and proposed or own bilingual staff do a peer review of cpmc dibeaty clinic. In may of this year just this munt cpmc advised it will perform its own review uses outside expertise. They...

Group of providers and citizens, but it was a update not a discussion. Cpmc is blowing the opportunity of developing a relationship with community after years of mistrust and battle. To restore credibility cpmc needs to consult with the broad representation of the community [inaudible] holding a series of meetings [inaudible] next speaker. Good afternoon. Gordon mars with jobs of justice. Access to jobs at cpmc especially the non construction jobs is a high priority. This is due to the fact cpmc...

Its going . Looking at the Court Decisions that have come down to date. And a corollary of that is does the current analysis under the Fourth Amendment, reasonable expectation of privacy, does it really fit this subject matter . Or is there another way to look at it, perhaps . Another topic is how do we find out in our cases whether this technology has been used . Youve heard from our last panel efforts that have been made by Law Enforcement to keep it secret. How do we determine that it has bee...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Asking Global Leaders to push for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. Hopes of finding survivors from last saturdays earthquake in nepal have received a boost after two people were pulled from the rubble. But the news still remains grim. More than 6300 people have been confirmed killed. Thousands of others were injured. A massive effort is under way to get aid to the most seriously affected areas but many people are still living under difficult conditions. Heres more. Reporter rescue teams have bee...

Whistleblowers, an extension of nonmedical employee probationary periods and requirement that gao conduct a study of the a time space, and resources devoted to labor union activities. I encourage those of you today if you have not already research this legislation, please do so. We would welcome your support of these crucial pieces of legislation. I look forward to hearing from each of you today, and the groups that you represent. I now yield five minutes to the senator from georgia, my good fri...