WHEREAS, San Francisco General Hospital has been a designated Trauma Center providing advanced care to injured adults and children since 1968; and,
WHEREAS, San Francisco General Hospital has been certified as a Level 1 Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons; and,
WHEREAS, the Trauma Center at San Francisco General Hospital has received national recognition for its emergency, peri-operative, critical, acute and rehabilitation care for adult and child victims of trauma; and,
WHEREAS, San Francisco General Hospital has been designated as the Trauma Center for the City and County of San Francisco by the Emergency Medical Service Agency; and,
WHEREAS, San Francisco General Hospital through its Level 1 Trauma Center can provide a level of care to injured adults and children that is not available to people residing, working or commuting through the counties to the north and south of San Francisco County; and,
WHEREAS, the 1993 Strategic Plan for San Francisco General Hospital as approved by the Health Commission includes a recommendation to explore the feasibility of expanding trauma services to new markets; and,
WHEREAS, San Francisco General Hospital has successfully piloted and served as a receiving hospital for the extreme northern portion of San Mateo County from 1993 to the present; and,
WHEREAS, the increased trauma patient volume did not impact the availability of services to the people of San Francisco; and,
WHEREAS, San Mateo County has asked San Francisco General Hospital to become the permanent Trauma Center for the northern part of San Mateo; and,
WHEREAS, arrangements have been made to bill the County of San Mateo for unsponsored patients; and,
WHEREAS, the Community Health Network is committed to providing high quality trauma care to its clients and to the San Francisco community as one of the array of available health care resources within its integrated delivery system; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Health Commission of the City and County of San Francisco does hereby support the regionalization of trauma services into the northern portion of San Mateo County; and, be it further
RESOLVED, that the Health Commission of the City and County of San Francisco does hereby support the regionalization of the Level 1 Trauma Program at San Francisco General Hospital to counties in need of advanced trauma care as long as there is no negative impact on the delivery of emergency and trauma services to the people in the City and County of San Francisco.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Health Commission at its meeting of Tuesday, January 20, 1998.
Sandy Ouye Mori, Executive Secretary to the Health Commission