Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center say clinic not paying them enough — and hit the streets

Oct 15, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center, a non-profit organization that provides health care services to low-income patients, hit the streets today. They, very publicly, demonstrated for higher wages and changes at their worksites — but say that the center’s management is refusing to address their concerns.

Compromise reached to save Adult Residential Facility, which mayor and Health Department had moved to gut

Oct 14, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The 55-bed Adult Residential Facility — which had been willfully kept largely empty for months,...

California’s cunning plan to bankrupt local pharmacies and keep drugs from AIDS patients

Oct 13, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

People’s lives will be ruined and the back-end costs will soar. And places like Mission Wellness will struggle to stay in business, which is also a net loss for the community.

Eight former St. Luke’s patients have died since unit was transferred — supes grill Sutter Health

Sep 27, 2019 | Mobile

Safai said that, during a recent visit to the facility, he saw a white board marked with red X’s next to the names of patients who had died. Safai said he had been taken aback by the experience, and grilled Macksood about it.

“It seemed like a countdown. I was stunned by it. Is that a practice you normally have in your facilities?” Safai said.

Families of St. Luke’s patients dig in to fight Saturday transfer

Jun 29, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

A long-simmering controversy will come to a boil Saturday, as families of 10 patients at St....

SF Health officials step up efforts to vaccinate homeless residents against Hepatitis A

Oct 5, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

As Hepatitis A outbreaks have appeared among homeless residents elsewhere in the state, San...

Sub-acute patients can stay in San Francisco, administrators say

Sep 11, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

In a sharp turnaround, California Pacific Medical Center said it will keep 28 patients currently...

Closure of St. Luke’s facility may be delayed, Commission deems loss of beds “detrimental”

Sep 6, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The San Francisco Health Commission decided Tuesday night that the closure of a skilled nursing...

Sub-acute patients at St. Luke’s find no place to go

Sep 4, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Halfway to the closure date of the sub-acute unit at St. Luke’s Hospital, many of its patients...

Overnight center opens at SF General for patients with psychiatric, addiction problems

Aug 31, 2017 | Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, SF Homeless Project, Today's Mission

For a homeless or marginally housed person experiencing a psychiatric episode or struggling with...

Families, doctors plead to keep S.F.’s only sub-acute facility open

Aug 16, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Nurses, advocates and family members of patients at the St. Luke’s Hospital skilled nursing and...

Community united against removal of care units from St. Luke’s Hospital

Jul 26, 2017 | Events, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Appalling, outrageous, inhumane, unacceptable, heartbreaking, tragic were all words that doctors,...

Sub-acute program at St. Luke’s to shut down, patients to be relocated (48Hills)

Jul 20, 2017 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

A sub-acute and nursing care facility at St. Luke’s Hospital is slated to shut down,...

Local health providers would face funding gap under proposed healthcare bill

May 23, 2017 | Clinic, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

If the U.S. Senate agrees with Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, San...

Threatened with closure, UCSF youth health center finds new home

May 17, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Imperiled by a loss of funding and an expiring lease, a year of uncertainty about the future of...

Hospital Staff Protest Trump Promises of Affordable Care Act Repeal

Jan 20, 2017 | Election Coverage, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Workers at San Francisco General Hospital protested the potential repeal of the Affordable Care...

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Eight former St. Luke’s patients have died since unit was transferred — supes grill Sutter Health

Families of St. Luke’s patients dig in to fight Saturday transfer

Community united against removal of care units from St. Luke’s Hospital

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