Improving Health Care Services
Supervisor Campos joins the nation's focus on reforming our health care system by introducing legislation to revive planning tools that were once vibrant in the State of California before former Governor Ronald Regan dismantled the responsible agency. The legislation directs the Department of Public Health to create a Health Care Services Master Plan that analyzes the current availability and location of health care services in San Francisco and makes policy recommendations to ensure an equitable and efficient distribution of those services. In addition, the legislation will require the planning department to review future land use applications by medical institutions for their consistency with the Health Care Services Master Plan's goals and priorities. The legislation will be heard at the Planning Commission on October 28, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. in City Hll, Room 400.  The agenda will be posted on the Commission website in October.

 

"Please Do Not Jump" Day
Recognizing that 85,000 Californians make suicide attempts each year and that 30 San Francisco Bay Area residents jump off the Golden Gate Bridge each year, the Board of Supervisors passed Supervisor Campos' resolution promoting suicide prevention and public health solutions.  The resolution acknowledges September 22, 2010 as "Please Don't Jump" Day and urges the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, and Transportation District to continue its efforts to expeditiously construct a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge.  Read more about it in this article.