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Introduction by daas executive director anne hinton. Good afternoon, Council Members. And director johnson. I am actually shareen micspanneden, the assistant executive director of department of aging and Adult Services. I apologize on believe of anne hinton who really wanted to be here, but was ill all week and wanted to be here with you today. I will do my best to channel her and do as close to a good job as she would have been if she were here. You are familiar with the fact that california is moving to a managed care model for health care deliveriy and in San Francisco, that means that heal...

She were here. You are familiar with the fact that california is moving to a managed care model for health care deliveriy and in San Francisco, that means that health care for people on medical, and for people on medical and medicare will be managed care. In San Francisco there are two plans that are responsible for providing that health care delivery. One is San Francisco health plan and one is anthem bluecross. San Francisco Health plan is the nonprofit provider and anthem bluecross is the forprofit provider. In San Francisco we have the twoplan model. For those people who are seniors and pe...

Largely what will happen. The can time sheet processing facility is much more sensitive than our staff are in terms of things that it doesnt like. For example, you cant write in any other kind of pen besides black ink. And you cant stick a sticky note onto the time sheet. And you cant fold the time sheet. Various, little persnickety things that are bad design in my opinion. [ laughter ] a lot of those rejected time sheets will all come to us, but they come back to us quickly and electronically. Well see an electronic image and then well be able to look at it and again, we do the same thing. If...

Moments. Again well move on to item no. 7, which is a public hearing, services and programs for adults with disabilities and seniors in San Francisco. What is working . What isnt . What is missing . Department of aging and Adult Services, daas and the date of birtheding date of birtheding have invited public testimony on access to services that help people to live independently in the community, this includes transportation, housing, personal assistance services,cess to health care, hospital transit services, access to information and more. This hearing is an opportunity for adults with disabi...

Part of what i do for the Grassroots Organization i called them on the phone to get an update on the organization and to keep them you know to get them to fund and things like that. And to quite often i get comments and frustration with the sf program, and the funding is not there and the part of the solar panels on there on the roof and so i would say whatever it takes lets accelerate this as quickly as possible as issuing this funtding because in the beginning the changes being made is positive and we need to get the train going and keep it rolling. One of the things that we did when i first...