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The committee and we are changing the names and circulating that out. Going forward whether a site provides i mean puts up that signage something you will report on . We do report on it and check on it but because its not part of the standards of care its not a complaint driven process so what we did with the information this year is see how some sites where it was posted and get the information and when we send it out and if we dont see it on a site visit we hand it to the provider and so there is that signage and sites like larkin has signage i would say 60 have signage up in english and spa...

It wont fully correct all the problems in those areas but i think its a start to true it up and allow managers to get a better sense of what theyre managing around. Ill use 2 million of savings for that and apply 3 million of salary savings to offset [inaudible]. I apologize, i neglected to include initiatives b1 which is on your summaries, but i forgot to include this as part of my presentation, but there is one Regulatory Initiative thats on your summary and its not insignificant. It is related to Electronic Medical records and meaningful use, which is what bill kim just spoke about. It is 3...

Important to know that treld that we as a city will then make sure we give the serviced to be transmitted properly and people what make did access. Gone are the days i used to translate for my mom and dad whether a hospital or benefits. I know virtual everyone standing with me today at sometime did the same things you were nerve because they didnt have the transmission and you were nerve whether a medical term was accurate or access Public Safety whether effectively or not to you the filipinoamericans her 90 in San Francisco that went throw things im not that david chiu and the Chinese Communi...

Mirrors the numbers from the acs Population Estimates again 87 percent of the client served by tier one departments are chinese and Spanish Speaking with the majority 48 percent chinese and point 02 percent speak tagalo theres a slight difference in the numbers reported by tier one departments having russian slightly higher at point 03 percent but that could be because of the Services Provided or the requests that are made. And as you know our leo is a very robust ordinance with tier 1, 26 main departments and tier 2 which are all the rest of the departments that service the public and in gene...

Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the video medical interpretation but also we have i know i hear information from members of the community a...