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And i believe senator durbin has some opening remarks. We will dive into the witness testimony as well. 1999, more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction in the production of deadly synthetic opioids has exasperated americans staggering overdose death rates. Than 70,000 people died from Drug Overdoses, making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 68 involved prescription opioids and illicit opioid...

Captioning starting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 17 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street, entrance is provided through a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is real captioned and sign language int...

Nursing you have to keep that in the back of your head and it sounds like the town square is a part of that. We have to move on. Is the square a day treatment model, a step down . No, its not. Just one thing and i will answer that. My suggestion is i will have to come back and talk to you at a different time which i suggest that you not be so focused on skilled nursing. The issues are not going to be addressed in those beds. They are going to be addressed in changes and how assisted living is go...

That. No, by the way, im involved in doing 2re7bding accrue trending across the country. Its not a day hospital model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic social services holistic approach. It sounds to me like coordinated care. The city, we dont have enough geriatric specialist t...

Model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic social services holistic approach. It sounds to me like coordinated care. The city, we dont have enough geriatric specialist to under the aging population and the different kinds of needs they have. Its great that you have coordinated car...

Benefits. Its a full package and we have a legal obligation. The board did its Due Diligence and i think the rate package you have is unbelievable rates. We have kept rates stable for the last 4 years. There have not been any significant increases. I think that thats significant to understand and thats still true even with this rate package. We need to keep the pressure on kaiser, no question, and we need to go for the transparentcy. This package affected thousands of lives. The extended bay are...

Thankful and lucky that we got 1. 5 percent without any explanation as to why kaiser is going to hold a gun to our head and say give us 15 million or no health care. I consider that to be an act of violence. My name is aheadey johnson. We work in psychiatric emergency services. We help people with case management. As you know workers got 1. 5 percent raise. We appreciate it but its not enough. We find it insulting that kaiser is gouging this money. Its a cut for us and cost more to work and live...

And i have no problems having those doors shut. I have 2 minutes up here but i dont think i will need it and its just 1 word. Its extortion. Thats what it comes dwoun down to. Its extortion. Give us 15,000,000 million. Thats kaisers choice. If we dont do this, there is going to be 40,000 people without health care. Thats the decision kaiser made. Thats going to be how they act as they want. As someone from formally a nonprofit worker, to be in a situation where in the last month 1 2 nonprofit wo...

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Bruce W. Sherman, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, about a recent study on wage-level disparities affecting the utilization of mental health resources, for which he was lead investigator; the study article appears in the April issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®.

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