San Francisco Department of Public Health
AGENDA: HEALTH COMMISSION MEETING
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
at
3:00 p.m.
101 GROVE STREET, ROOM 300
San Francisco, CA 94102
The Budget Committee of the Commission will consider the consent calendar on this agenda at 2:00 p.m. at 101 Grove. The Budget Committee Consent Calendar consists of two sections. The first section is for items that will be considered for approval. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Budget Committee so requests. The second section consists of items that will be for discussion and approval.
Consent Calendar items that have been recommended for approval by the Budget Committee will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the Health Commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Health Commission so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item.
PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE TAKEN FOR EACH AGENDA ITEM.
1) CALL TO ORDER
2) PROPOSED ACTION: APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE HEALTH COMMISSION MEETING
OF MARCH 7, 2006
*Minutes of the meeting of March 7, 2006
3) PROPOSED ACTION: APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE
(Commissioner David J. Sanchez, Jr., Ph.D.)
Items for Approval
(3.1) CHN-SFGH – Request for approval of a contract modification to add SFG Imaging Consultants, Inc. to the previously approved contract shared by three contractors to provide intermittent, as-needed, professional services of per diem and traveling radiology technologists with on-call availability 7 days a week, for San Francisco General Hospital and to increase the contract by $509,000, from $1,200,000 to $1,709,000, for the period of July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.
* Contract summary
Items for Discussion and Approval
(3.2) CHN-Patient Financial Services – Request for approval to submit a resolution to the Board of Supervisors to accept revenues estimated to exceed $1,000,000 under a contract with Health Advocates, LLP.
* Request memo, Resolution(3.3) CHN-Patient Financial Services – Request for approval of a renewal contract with Health Advocates, LLP to enhance Medi-Cal and other third-party reimbursements through uncompensated care reimbursement recovery services at San Francisco General Hospital, with compensation based on contingency fees to be paid out of recoveries obtained by the contractor, for the period of
April 1, 2006 through December 31, 2009.
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary(3.4) CHN-Administration – Request for approval to submit a resolution to the Board of Supervisors to accept revenues estimated to exceed $1,000,000 under a contract with Toyon Associates, Inc.
* Request memo, Resolution(3.5) CHN-SFGH, LHH & HAH – Request for approval of a renewal contract with Toyon Associates, Inc., in the amount of $1,754,056, to provide regulatory reporting and reimbursement and revenue optimization services to San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital and Health at Home, for the period of April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2010.
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary(3.6) CHN-SFGH – Request for approval of a retroactive new contract with Tsang Architecture, in the amount of $160,000, to provide master planning services for the development of a new acute care hospital building for San Francisco General Hospital, for the period of March 1, 2006 through
December 31, 2006.
* Contract summary(3.7) DPH-Community Programs Prevention Services – Request for approval of a resolution approving the use of interim agreements to extend the terms and conditions of FY 2005-06 contracts into the first six months of FY 2006-07.
* Request memo, Resolutions, Interim Agreement list(3.8) PHP-CHSS-TB Control – Request for approval of a retroactive sole source contract renewal with the Regents of the University of California, in the amount of $1,488,000, to provide operational services of the Francis J. Curry Regional Training and Medical Consultation Center, targeting health care providers, allied health professionals, social service providers, TB and other related training providers, funders interested in TB, and related health concerns throughout the United States, for the period of January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary
4) FOR DISCUSSION: DIRECTOR’S REPORT
(Mitchell H. Katz, M.D., Director of Health)
(Report on activities and operations of the Department)
*Director’s Report
5) PRESENTATION OF THE MARCH EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION AWARDS
*List of Awardees
6) FOR DISCUSSION: UPDATE ON NON-PROFIT CONTRACTOR TASK FORCE
(Anne Okubo, Deputy Finance Director)
*Update
7) FOR DISCUSSION: PROGRESS REPORT ON INITIATIVES TO INCREASE HEALTH
INSURANCE COVERAGE AND ACCESS IN SAN FRANCISCO
(Mitchell H. Katz, M.D., Health Director)
*Update
8) PUBLIC COMMENT/OTHER BUSINESS**
9) ADJOURNMENT
* Explanatory documents are available at the Health Commission Office, 101
Grove Street, Room #311, telephone 554-2666.
** Opportunity for members of the public to address the Health Commission on
items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter
jurisdiction of the Health Commission. Additionally, public comments will be
taken for each agenda item.
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