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acute conditions. we care for primarily are mostly poor or elderly or disabled patients on medicare and medical. we have strokes and heart and circulatory diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, kidney diseases. we see post-transplant. they are acute and they are ill, and they are not appropriate for community-based snifs. they need one attached to the hospital. thank you. >> followed by [reading names] >> i have been a pediatrician at st. luke's hospital for the past 11 years. i last spoke to the help commission three years ago, in strong opposition to the proposed closure of our be...

project bill, cpmc will agree to serve the community -- project built unless the cpmc will agree to serve the community. they must provide charity care to our community. cpmc service provider it tomedi- cal patience is proportionately low compared to other san francisco hospitals. according to theimp in 2007 -- the imp in 2007, twice as many patients were seen from knob hill as opposed to the tenderloin. i am a low-income tenderloin patient with many severe health problems. i suffer from diabetes with multiple health conditions and also a e manyye probl -- also many i problems -- eye...

introduced a continuum of care facility, providing services to 34 children, all children of working, poor, low-income families. i am proud to say we are here this evening in support of the rebuild plans of cpmc, including the rebuild of st. luke's hospital. we are not here to tell cpmc how to work with community, but rather to say that we appreciate that cpmc knocked on our door when we first moved in to bayview hunters point and asked how they could assist in providing services directly to the bayview child health center, the only child facility in the bayview hunters point operated...

hospital will not be accessible. i want to work in a earthquake- safe environment, but feel other options should be explored to serve the community as a whole, rich, poor, the uninsured, and the injured. thank you for listening to me. >> thank you all for coming. >> good evening, members of the planning commission and health commission. i have been a registered nurse for the past 30 years. for the past 13, i have worked cpmc's labor and delivery unit. i am concerned about the plan to downsize st. luke and concentrate specialty services at cathedral hill. whether than improving patien...