San Francisco Department of Public Health, Health Commission Agenda

San Francisco Department of Public Health

AGENDA: HEALTH COMMISSION MEETING

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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 JANUARY 16, 2007
*Minutes of the meeting of January 16, 2007

3) PROPOSED ACTION: APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE
(Commissioner David J. Sanchez, Jr., Ph.D.)

Items for Discussion and Approval

3.1 BHS – Request for approval of a retroactive contract renewal with Polaris Research & Development, in the amount of $2,060,302, which includes a 12% contingency, to provide Black Infant Health Improvement Program services targeting African American parents for the period of July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010 (4.5 years).
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary, Client demographic information form

Items for Approval

3.2 ADMINISTRATION - Resolution Authorizing the Department of Public Health, Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center (LHH) to accept a gift of an electric cart valued in the amount of $11,091.68, from the Laguna Honda Hospital Volunteers Inc. to be used for the maintenance and operation of the animal assisted therapy program and related facilities.
*Resolution
3.3 BHS – Request for approval of a retroactive contract renewal with the Regents of the University of California Center on Deafness, in the amount of $509,593, to provide mental health and substance abuse outpatient services for the period of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 (1 year).
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary, Plan of correction, Client demographic information form
3.4 CHN – Rehabilitation - Request for approval of four (4) contract renewals with the following two (2) firms: On-Call Therapists, Inc. and Preferred Healthcare Registry, Inc. in the combined amount of $702,750 to provide intermittent, as-needed rehabilitation therapy personnel services (Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists) for Laguna Honda Hospital for the period of February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2009 (2 years) and for San Francisco General Hospital for the period of February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2011 (4 years).
*Contract summary, Monitoring report summary
3.5 AIDS OFFICE-HIV Prevention – Request for approval of a retroactive renewal contract with Legal Services for Children, in the amount of $465,202, which includes a 12% contingency, to provide legal/guardianship/children services for individuals diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, for the period of July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010 (4.5 years).
* Contract summary, Monitoring report summary, Client demographic information form
3.6 PHP-Housing & Urban Health – Request for approval of a contract modification with Lutheran Social Services in the amount of $100,258 for a combined total of $567,945 which includes a 12% contingency to provide money management and third party rent payment services to residents of the Direct Access to Housing (DAH) sites for the period of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008. (2 years).
*Contract summary
3.7 PHP – Primary Care - Request for approval to enter into an agreement in the amount of $241,011 with Tenderloin Health, the primary contractor, to participate in a project to expand oral health services for homeless individuals infected with HIV disease in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, for the period of April 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
*Health Commission Memo

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) FOR DISCUSSION: STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE REPORT
(Jim Soos, Deputy Director, Office of Policy and Planning)
*Report

6) FOR DISCUSSION: 2ND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT
(Gregg Sass, Chief Financial Officer)
*Update

7) FOR DISCUSSION: HEALTH ACCESS PROGRAM UPDATE
(Tangerine Brigham, Deputy Director of Health)
*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 is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Health Commission. Additionally, public comments will be taken for each agenda item.

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