SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024
Health services. A brief review of the history includes that the facility first opened in 1996 as the Mental Health rehabilitation facility called the merf. It was then a 147 bed psychiatric Skilled Nursing facility. Then in the early 2000s as the environment in San Francisco began to shift toward the need for more lower level residential beds, in 2003 the mayor of San Francisco established a Blue Ribbon Committee for a new design for the services provided. That process resulted in 2004, thmerf moving to a three program mixed use facility consisting of a 47 bed secure and locked Mental Health ...