San Franciscans for Health Care Reform Town Hall Meeting at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

On July 15th, 2009, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center hosted a Town Hall meeting about health care reform. Bay Area leaders gathered with members of the community to facilitate a dialogue about the values that should drive health care reform and how to build consensus to achieve real change. The community input from this meeting was presented to President Obama and Congress on July 21st, 2009 by health policy expert and Catholic Healthcare West CEO Lloyd Dean. Featuring: Mitch Katz, MD, San Francisco Public Health Medical Director, Catherine Dodd, PhD, RN, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Mayor of San Francisco, Gary Chan, MD, Secretary of the San Francisco Medical Society, Sonia Melara, San Francisco Health Commissioner and Wade Rose, Vice President, External & Government Relations for Catholic Healthcare West. KGO ABC-7.