And when a hospital loses its certification, federal regulators require them to not only present a recertification plan, but also to present a plan to shut down entirely and move every single patient out of the place, on the chance that they don’t get their certification back.
CURRENT DEFCON SERIES
But this year they have been decertified by the CMS after a series of public miscues, including illegal drug overdoses among patients on their watch. With over 700 beds, Laguna Honda hospital is one of the nation's largest skilled nursing facilities, and happens to be the only remaining one the country that is still publicly-owned. San Franciscans need and deserve a functional Laguna Honda but has not demonstrated the capacity to run it safely and effectively. He was just thrown onto the job when Laguna Honda was threatened with termination of all Medicare and Medicaid funding, which accounts for about two-thirds of the city-run hospital’s budget.Īnd now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is demanding that Laguna Honda present a plan to shut the entire place down by mid-September, prompting a Tuesday special session with the Board of Supervisors to explain what the heck is going on here, and whether it really is a possibility that the 156-year-old hospital institution will be ordered closed by the feds.Ĭan #SanFrancisco continue to run #LagunaHonda Hospital? The hospital has taken up reform efforts blithely. And then the SF Board of Supervisors calls you in on the carpet for a special emergency hearing to determine what on earth is going on, and you begin your statement with “I am the interim CEO at Laguna Honda hospital, a position I have held for the last 12 days.”īut that was the situation faced Tuesday afternoon by Roland Pickens, CEO of the San Francisco Health Network and not the current interim, last-second fill-in CEO of Laguna Honda. You know that you and your co-workers are up shit's creek when federal regulators are threatening to shut your site down and evict your workplace. The feds are demanding that Laguna Honda hospital present a plan to close down and move nearly 700 patients out, and the Board of Supervisors grilled the care facility’s leadership Tuesday on whether this DEFCON 1 scenario could actually happen.
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