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Commissioner pating noted federal and state mandates dont match local needs. Fine i had further corrections two paragraphs further down it should say that commissioner chow commended dr. Arrest going gone rather commended the other explanation on page 5 for the inspection of the third paragraph on that page has to do with with the comments on how the counties organized their Emergency Services and the last comment on any part was that you the minutes note that the San Francisco dpw managed the S...

Away. Meanwhile, at least six major wildfires are burning in california. More than 150 homes have been ordered evacuated. Breaking news the toledo water ban has been lifted. All six test results came back with no problems whatsoever. We are lifting the no drink advisory. Our water is safe. A second american infected with ebola is due to arrive in atlanta on tuesday. Her colleague, dr. Kent brantly, is already receiving treatment at Emory University hospital. Is he likely to survive . I cant pred...

In a unique place. We just had the opening a few years ago of the mills hospital and part of stanford and sutter and new innovations. We had people that interacted at general and ucsf. We had the new Mission Bay Hospital this past week which integrated three hospitals quote unquote and plus the Helen Dillard cancer and started out at the old mount zion and independent hospital and part of ucsf and childrens and the east bay and theyre going to be going through a shake down this coming here and t...

Office. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. I would like to share with you our accomplishment in the office of management care. We implemented as mentioned we implemented the office of managed care and have successfully hired, thank you, that was not in the agenda, pushing the button. We have successfully hired two Key Management positions. Let me introduce diana give era, who is the associate of administrator for office of managed care and patient finance and managed care. Since may we have...

Would be utilize something. So commissioners what we will have when we open the door at General Hospital for the large part of the same system we have today. Okay. We do have some new systems going in that we do not have. For example mdm is one of the new systems. We dont have that today but in large part were going to actually take what we have were going to modify it to meet the needs of the new hospital and for example if you change the number of beds and the location the system has to be com...

Actually take what we have were going to modify it to meet the needs of the new hospital and for example if you change the number of beds and the location the system has to be completely changed out and redesigned in some ways to make it work and anywhere from the clinical system to the Financial System so thats the work effort going on today. Basically the decision was made because with the rebuild and the effort it took to do the rebuild and the reorganization of the it it wasnt possible to en...

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...

Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had someth...

Captioning performed by vitac forward to hearing first from sloan gibson. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman isakson Ranking Member blumenthal and the committee, were committed to making the Choice Program work and to providing veterans timely and geographically accessible care, using care in the community whenever necessary. Ill talk shortly about what were doing and the help that we need from congress to make all of that happen. First, i want to talk very briefly about access to care. Most morn...

Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Colle...