SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the launch of a new guaranteed income program for the city’s transgender community on Wednesday.

The Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program will provide low-income transgender residents with $1,200 each month, up to 18 months to help address financial insecurity within the community.

In a statement, the City of San Francisco said: “GIFT is one of several programs the City is developing, implementing, and evaluating to identify how to best support San Francisco residents and promote economic stability and recovery.”

The city also said that the new pilot program is the first guaranteed income initiative to focus solely on transgender people and will provide 55 eligible participants with temporary income. Additionally, the city said it will provide the same individuals with “wrap-around” direct services, such as gender-affirming medical and mental health care, case management, specialty care services and financial coaching.

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“We know that our trans communities experience much higher rates of poverty and discrimination, so this program will target support to lift individuals in this community up. We will keep building on programs like this to provide those in the greatest need with the financial resources and services to help them thrive,” said Mayor London Breed in a statement.

Transgender communities, experience poverty and economic instability at disproportionate rates according to the city.

“The US Transgender Survey, which is the only largescale study of trans people in the United States, in 2015 found that 33% of trans people in California were living in poverty,” said Pau Crego with the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives.

That percentage is compared to 12% of people in the general population that were living in poverty.

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The city also noted that the percentage among transgender people who are also Black, Indigenous and People of Color is even higher.

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services and The Transgender District are leading program design and implementation of the program, with support from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and other agencies.

“We hope that our guaranteed income program will be the beginning of a reparative process to change the inequities experienced by our communities, help them survive in a world that is constantly debating their right to exist, and empower them to engage in healthcare services in a meaningful and life-changing way,” said JM Jaffe, executive director of Lyon-Martin Community Health Services.

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Applications will be accepted from Nov. 15 through Dec. 15 this year.

According to the program’s website, applicants must meet the following qualifications:

• Be at least 18 years old
• Identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, or intersex
• Not be receiving more than $600/monthly in income
• Reside in the City and County of San Francisco
• Be willing and able to complete a survey every 3 months, and submit a complete application.

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The GIFT program is San Francisco’s third guaranteed income program. It follows the Abundant Birth Project, launched in 2020, and the Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists, launched in 2021.

In 2023, the city said it will launch two additional guaranteed income programs geared towards youth.

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Our San Francisco plumbers can clear any sewer line using our advanced Hydro-jetting equipment. We have a special truck we use for this service and we are now offering $20 off of this sewer cleaning service

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Plumbers in San Francisco California at Magic Plumbing have been helping homeowners and commercial customers for over 20 years. They are now offering new plumbing service discounts. The new discounts include $20 off of drain cleaning and trenchless sewer replacement in San Francisco. The new coupon is also applicable to water jetting. Hydro-jetting is the process of using a high pressure water jet to cut through any debris that are blocking the sewer pipe. Hydro-jetting can clear large grease clogs, paper products and the water can even cut through tree roots. Magic Plumbing has technicians that specialize in this type of San Francisco plumbing repair.

“Our San Francisco plumbers can clear any sewer line using our advanced Hydro-jetting equipment. We have a special truck we use for this service and we are now offering $20 off of this sewer cleaning service,” says Paul, Manager at Magic Plumbing. In addition to hydro-jetting Magic Plumbing is also offering a coupon for $20 off whole house repiping. This includes both PEX and Copper Repiping in San Francisco and the Peninsula.

Copper repiping in San Francisco or PEX re-piping should always be handled by a licensed professional. Any type of fresh water coming into the home from a city connection needs to be done right. “If a DIY homeowner messes up on welding the pipes or making the proper pipe connections the result could be catastrophic,” says Paul. “We can handle most PEX or copper re-piping in San Francisco in just one day.”

In addition to providing sewer cleaning services like hydro-jetting and whole house re-piping with copper or PEX piping, Magic Plumbing is also a full service plumber. They offer complete plumbing service and repair. Some of the services they offer include San Francisco drain cleaning, water heater repair, sewer pipe replacement, gas line installation and toilet repair. “There’s no plumbing problem we can’t handle anywhere in San Francisco,” says Paul.

To learn more about the San Francisco plumbers at Magic Plumbing please visit their website. Homeowners and businesses are also invited to read their press releases and watch their online videos. People are also encouraged to take advantage of the new discount coupons being offered for hydro-jetting and repiping in San Francisco.

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“The launch of Credera’s San Francisco Bay Area office builds on the strategic client and firm growth that we’ve seen with other offices on the West Coast in Los Angeles other Seattle,” says Justin Bell, CEO and president of Credera. “This expansion helps Credera better serve our clients with a personalized, agile approach and with the global scale that Credera brings.”

“We believe the Credera culture of innovation, trust, and transparency will resonate with the diverse, entrepreneurial, and ultra-highly skilled talent pool in the Bay Area market,” says Ben RhodesCredera partner and lead for the San Francisco Bay Area office. “We look forward to scaling our growth engine through the hiring of local, executive-level leaders and deepening our relationships with key Omnicom agency partners, equipping us to deliver world-changing and results-driven services to our portfolio of West Coast clients.”

Credera is actively recruiting top technology, data, strategy and operations, and management consulting leaders with an emphasis on data science, data engineering, MarTech, customer strategy, and privacy professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area to help the most innovative companies continue to change the world. This Bay Area office is focused on Credera’s mission of making an extraordinary impact on clients, colleagues, and communities with a talented group of people who authentically support one another at work, at home, and in the community.

Headquartered in DallasCredera’s growing global team of talented consultants in the United Statesthe United Kingdom, India, Singaporeand Australia drive impact for companies around the world. It has been honored by Fortune as a “Best Place to Work” in consulting and professional services.

ABOUT CREDERA
Credera (credera.com) is a global, boutique consulting firm focused on strategy, innovation, data and technology. As a part of Omnicom Precision Marketing Group, our approximately 3,000 consultants across the globe partner together with clients ranging from long-time market leaders to emerging companies delivering strategy and execution leadership to create tangible business results. Credera’s deep business acumen and technical expertise, combined with a deep dedication to building trusted relationships, unlocks extraordinary business performance for our clients. Our mission is to make an extraordinary impact for our clients, people, and communities.

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Omnicom Precision Marketing Group aligns Omnicom’s global digital, data and CRM capabilities to deliver precisely targeted and meaningful customer experiences at scale. Using its universal framework of connected data, connected intelligence and connected experiences, OPMG provides services that include data-driven product / service design, AdTech / MarTech strategy and implementation, CRM / loyalty strategy and activation, econometric and attribution modeling and digital experience design and development. At the core of delivering these services is Omni, an advanced technology platform that combines a powerful cultural insights engine with massively scaled data insights from first-, second- and third-party sources, including several proprietary Omnicom data partnerships. OPMG is a division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC).

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The rear window of a Waymo Chrysler Pacifica robotaxi is seen while parked at a Target store in Tempe, Arizona, U.S. August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Paresh Dave

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo unit said on Monday that it is ready to remove safety drivers from its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, without elaborating on the timeframe for launching fully driverless services.

Waymo in August started giving autonomous rides free of charge to a limited number of people in San Francisco, with safety drivers on board, using its Jaguar electric vehicles.

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said on Monday that it has given hundreds of people ‘robo-taxi’ rides for the past six months since the rollout in the densely populated city.

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“For more than 55 years, The North Face has enabled exploration and helped people strive for greatness by providing the best gear to get them there,” said Mike Ferris, VP of Global Brands at The North Face. “Our customers, the feats they have achieved, and the memories they have created are such a big part of our brand’s rich DNA. With this archive, alongside SFMOMA, we are memorializing the people, products and stories that continue to inspire our community and move the world forward.”

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Bay Area-born The North Face to bring our community a wide range of unique and inspiring public programs” said Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director of SFMOMA. “This partnership champions exploration, creative expression, and innovation that are critical to both of our organizations.”

To launch It’s More Than A Jacket, The North Face is joining with cultural icons and artists RZA and HAIM alongside The North Face athlete team members Conrad Anker other Ingrid Backstrom to be the first explorers to submit to the archive this fall, drawing on connections from their past to write their stories of adventure into the brand’s history.

“As an artist, style has always been an expression of identity and a way to mark a moment in time,” said RZA. “In the 90s, not only was The North Face the rugged, stylish gear we needed on New York City’s streets, it was more than a jacket because it was a witness. It was a witness to the brotherhood that we were inspiring, and that inspired us. By entering this jacket into the archive, I get the chance to relive and preserve the memories lived in it forever.”

“For as long as we can remember, we’ve had a curiosity for the unknown and a love for the world around us,” said HAIM. “From experimenting with different rhythms and instrumentation to discovering a new style or city, exploration is a part of everything we do. Through these adventures, our jackets from The North Face have been with us along the way and have become more than a source of function; they’ve comforted us when we’re away from home and remind us of everywhere we’ve been.”

The campaign will come to life throughout the fall as The North Face introduces six new collections that all pay homage to the brand’s DNA, drawing inspiration from The North Face rich past to inspire and enable exploration in the future. Each collection speaks to The North Face mission to continue to inspire exploration and shows how every adventure can live on through gear: from bringing back the gear that outfitted the first-ever non-mechanized crossing of Antarctica in 1990 that drew global attention to the need for preservation of the continent to introduce the brand’s most iconic insulation piece – the Nuptse – now offered in a version made with 100% recycled fabrics.

It’s More Than A Jacket will launch with a feature anthem film that brings to life the idea that stories from the past are woven into every jacket. The brand will also debut three extended films throughout the fall featuring adaptive athlete Vasu Sojitrafreestyle skis Jossi Wells and leader of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, Will Stegar.

To contribute to the official archive and potentially appear in the SFMOMA experience, The North Face is calling on explorers everywhere to post to social media using the hashtag #MoreThanAJacket. Additional information and official terms around how It’s More Than A Jacket will come to life and the partnership with SFMOMA will be available throughout the fall and into 2022.

Follow @thenorthface on Instagram and Twitter to learn more about It’s More Than a Jacket.

About The North Face® 
The North Face, a division of VF Outdoor, LLC, was founded in 1966 with the goal of preparing outdoor athletes for the rigors of their next adventure. Today we are the world’s leading outdoor brand, creating athlete-tested, expedition-proven products that help people explore and test the limits of human potential. We protect our outdoor playgrounds and minimize our impact on the planet through programs that encourage sustainability. The North Face products are available at premium and specialty retail sporting goods stores globally and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For more information, please visit www.thenorthface.com.

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States and a thriving cultural center for the Bay Area. Its remarkable collection of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design and media arts is housed in an LEED Gold-certified building designed by the global architects Snøhetta and Mario Botta. In addition to seven gallery floors, SFMOMA offers 45,000 square feet of free, art-filled public space open to all.

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Officials in the South San Francisco Unified School District are considering possible plans to launch a new transition kindergarten program that would align with state goals to expand early education opportunities, but without additional state funding.

With the adoption of Bill 130 by the State Assembly, school districts must now develop a plan to offer all 4-year-olds a transitional kindergarten by June 30, 2022, the first year of a two-year kindergarten program, with full implementation by the school year 2025-26.

“It’s really about providing fair opportunities for all students so that when they enter the K-12 system they have all the skills and basic knowledge to be successful throughout their school years,” said District Superintendent Dr. Shawnterra Moore during a board meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

But as a community-funded district, which means that most of the SSFUSD’s budget is funded through property taxes, the district does not receive government funding for admitting the new students unless the student comes from a low-income household or an underserved community.

Without government funding, civil servants will have to develop a program within the existing budget by 2023 that can accommodate 48 students between two classes with an adult to 12 student ratio.

Ted O, deputy superintendent of Business Services, said the district will receive $ 200,000 in one-time funding from the state and could receive an additional government-backed grant of up to $ 200,000 for infrastructure needs like retrofitting a building or paying teachers receive wages. But the district would have to top up the contribution it receives.

“I understand very well that we’re going to have to be doing some kind of magic if we’re going to apply for funding,” said vice president of the board, Mina Richardson.

The districts with the most underserved students also have priority for these dollars. These numbers are based on applications for the free or discounted lunch program. Dr. Jay Spaulding, assistant director of human resources and student services, said the number of students enrolled in the program has fallen from 42% to 32% in recent years as government measures have been put in place to fund school meals for all students regardless of income level .

“And that was the Catch-22. It’s amazing that we have free lunch for all students, but I think it has made some families feel like applying for the program, ”said President John Baker.

Alternatively, a drop in enrollments that has plagued the state could be seen as a benefit to the district, which must determine how to make room for the new students, Spaulding noted. Over the past eight years, the district has seen enrollments decrease by nearly 13%. The number of kindergarten attendants fell by more than 24% over the same period.

Community-funded districts cannot face fines or other consequences if the program is not set up within the first year, Moore said, adding that more clarity is needed on the matter.

“I don’t want to set it up so that it doesn’t come, but we were told that at that moment when we realized we were still gathering information,” said Moore.

To implement the program, the district has a number of options, including hiring a TC teacher for a class of 12 students, hiring a TC teacher and classified employee for a class of 24, or introducing a morning and evening model , the district, to accept 48 students a day by hiring two TC teachers to split the management.

The first model would cost the district $ 110,674 per class of 12, the second $ 79,837 per 12 students or $ 159,674 for 24, and the third $ 55,737 per class of 12 students, but $ 222,948 Dollars in total.

Some trustees supported the third option, but the district must support community contributions before it can agree on a plan. Baker said it could be difficult to interview parents who are unaware of possible program configurations.

“It’s really important to know that the option will really drive potential demand,” said Baker.

Richardson argued that a survey would not get enough responses from the community, pointing to previous efforts with little interaction. Instead, she suggested that the board set up a volunteer parenting committee to examine the options in more detail.

“They would bring a lot of insight that we are likely to miss tonight,” said Richardson.

Ultimately, the board directed staff members to interview parents and the community to gauge their interest in the options. They also directed staff to further investigate the costs and staffing levels required to implement the third option.

Moore said staff would come up with a resolution that the board should pass the next time the matter was discussed, and shared the hope that the state will release additional details on the potential impact if the program does not start immediately.

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2021 / PRNewswire / – A groundbreaking educational partnership begins today that will empower the home care workforce and provide dedicated caregivers with an avenue to careers in nursing. The partnership between City College of San Francisco (CCSF), UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Homebridge – one of San Francisco Leading in-house care organizations for older adults and people with complex health, behavioral and social needs – follows key lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It should strengthen San Francisco Responding to current challenges related to aging, equal opportunities and labor.

The program provides Homebridge In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) employees with on-the-job training for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification by CCSF and connects participants with on-the-job clinical training at UCSF. It will then connect workers with CNA jobs and provide a path to nursing careers with San Francisco Health care provider.

The initiative aims to overcome barriers to career advancement for home care services, including access to education and training, and fees associated with healthcare education and certification. Funded by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Metta Fund, the program provides paid on-the-job training for CNA certification for Homebridge employees. Program participants stay on the job at Homebridge while attending ten hours of weekly classes on the CCSF curriculum. The state clinical practice requirement of 100 hours is met at UCSF Health.

“The launch of this innovative career pipeline initiative is an important strategic step in expanding our long-term care workforce and creating a thriving health sector for all San Franciscans,” said Mayor London Breed. “Since these workers are predominantly colored women, the initiative also shows San Francisco Commitment to economic opportunities and equal opportunities for women and people of color. These dedicated home care workers have been at the forefront of helping older adults and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis, saving lives and enabling vulnerable residents to stay at home safely here in the city. “

Throughout the pandemic, home and community caregivers have been first responders to older adults and people with disabilities living in isolation at home. Your rapid response networks and home support services are critical to maintaining home safety, access to vital resources such as food and health care, and facilitating entry or re-entry into community care facilities.

“As the most important vehicle for professional and personnel training in San Francisco, City College is looking forward to this partnership “, commented Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales. She added, “Partnerships like this also demonstrate our commitment to economically empowering our diverse and most vulnerable communities while continuing our mission to provide educational pathways with a social justice perspective.”

Fully accredited by the CA Department of Public Health, the 15-week, on-the-job, Certified Nursing Assistant training program provides career opportunities in certified healthcare for home care workers and provides healthcare providers with access to a dedicated, highly skilled, experienced and patient workforce . The partnership is an innovative step in the integration of home care and health services that has long been advocated by IHSS practitioners and beneficiaries as necessary for successful, high quality home care.

A statewide master plan for aging called for by Governor Newsom in 2018 and published in January 2021, names “care that works” as one of its five bold goals to be achieved by 2030. The plan aims to create one million high quality caregivers and predicts a labor shortage of up to 3.2 million paid direct caregivers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for long-term home and community-based carers increased and is expected to increase in the near future as access to IHSS is expanded below California State law 2021-2022. These shifts come after a decade of growth in California direct care workers between 2009-2019 (source: PHI) and as California is preparing for 25% of the population to be 65 or older by 2030.

Home care is currently the largest of all occupations in California (Source: PHI 2021). Despite their vast reach, the vendors’ workforce remains largely underpaid and unrecognized as an invaluable part of the U.S. workforce and health care system. In California, home care workers are twice as likely to live in low-income households as other Californians, and one in four lives below the state poverty line (Source: CA Master Plan for Aging). Most nursing professions are held by women (81% PHI), particularly black, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian-American women, and many are immigrants (48% PHI).

The program is also a step in addressing a significant shortage of nurses and care assistants across the country, both in the face of aging caregivers and increased demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This partnership offers these frontline workers an important career path that also helps hospitals and other health care facilities that benefit from the new skills of these workers,” said Dr. Pat Patton, DNP, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services at UCSF Health. “As an anchor institution in San Francisco, with the goal of contributing to the socio-economic health of our community as well as health care needs, we pride ourselves on being part of advancing the employee and health development goals that are critical to meeting the nursing needs of the San Franciscans are.”

The program is one of three CCSF institutional service agreements, including one with SF Police and SF Fire focused on career expansion and the first in healthcare. For Homebridge, whose IHSS work is funded by a contract with the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services, it is the next link in a highly acclaimed person-centered care model with a ladder from home care to health care. “We believe that delivering critical training with employment is a way of doing things San Francisco and other jurisdictions everywhere California to increase the number of employees with incentives and a suitably skilled workforce capable of meeting the growing demands of an aging population California,” called Mark Burns, CEO of Homebridge.

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2021 / PRNewswire / – A groundbreaking educational partnership begins today that will empower the home care workforce and provide dedicated caregivers with an avenue to careers in nursing. The partnership between City College of San Francisco (CCSF), UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Homebridge – one of San Francisco Leading in-house care organizations for older adults and people with complex health, behavioral and social needs – follows key lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It should strengthen San Francisco Responding to current challenges related to aging, equal opportunities and labor.

The program provides Homebridge In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) employees with on-the-job training for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification by CCSF and connects participants with on-the-job clinical training at UCSF. It will then connect workers with CNA jobs and provide a path to nursing careers with San Francisco Health care provider.

The initiative aims to overcome barriers to career advancement for home care services, including access to education and training, and fees associated with healthcare education and certification. Funded by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Metta Fund, the program provides paid on-the-job training for CNA certification for Homebridge employees. Program participants stay on the job at Homebridge while attending ten hours of weekly classes on the CCSF curriculum. The state clinical practice requirement of 100 hours is met at UCSF Health.

“The launch of this innovative career pipeline initiative is an important strategic step in expanding our long-term care workforce and creating a thriving health sector for all San Franciscans,” said Mayor London Breed. “Since these workers are predominantly colored women, the initiative also shows San Francisco Commitment to economic opportunities and equal opportunities for women and people of color. These dedicated home care workers have been at the forefront of helping older adults and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis, saving lives and enabling vulnerable residents to stay at home safely here in the city. “

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Throughout the pandemic, home and community caregivers have been first responders to older adults and people with disabilities living in isolation at home. Your rapid response networks and home support services are critical to maintaining home safety, access to vital resources such as food and health care, and facilitating entry or re-entry into community care facilities.

“As the most important vehicle for professional and personnel training in San Francisco, City College is looking forward to this partnership “, commented Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales. She added, “Partnerships like this also demonstrate our commitment to economically empowering our diverse and most vulnerable communities while continuing our mission to provide educational pathways with a social justice perspective.”

Fully accredited by the CA Department of Public Health, the 15-week, on-the-job, Certified Nursing Assistant training program provides career opportunities in certified healthcare for home care workers and provides healthcare providers with access to a dedicated, highly skilled, experienced and patient workforce . The partnership is an innovative step in the integration of home care and health services that has long been advocated by IHSS practitioners and beneficiaries as necessary for successful, high quality home care.

A statewide master plan for aging called for by Governor Newsom in 2018 and published in January 2021, names “care that works” as one of its five bold goals to be achieved by 2030. The plan aims to create one million high quality caregivers and predicts a labor shortage of up to 3.2 million paid direct caregivers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for long-term home and community-based carers increased and is expected to increase in the near future as access to IHSS is expanded below California State law 2021-2022. These shifts come after a decade of growth in California direct care workers between 2009-2019 (source: PHI) and as California is preparing for 25% of the population to be 65 or older by 2030.

Home care is currently the largest of all occupations in California (Source: PHI 2021). Despite their vast reach, the vendors’ workforce remains largely underpaid and unrecognized as an invaluable part of the U.S. workforce and health care system. In California, home care workers are twice as likely to live in low-income households as other Californians, and one in four lives below the state poverty line (Source: CA Master Plan for Aging). Most nursing professions are held by women (81% PHI), particularly black, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian-American women, and many are immigrants (48% PHI).

The program is also a step in addressing a significant shortage of nurses and care assistants across the country, both in the face of aging caregivers and increased demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This partnership offers these frontline workers an important career path that also helps hospitals and other health care facilities that benefit from the new skills of these workers,” said Dr. Pat Patton, DNP, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services at UCSF Health. “As an anchor institution in San Francisco, with the goal of contributing to the socio-economic health of our community as well as health care needs, we pride ourselves on being part of advancing the employee and health development goals that are critical to meeting the nursing needs of the San Franciscans are.”

The program is one of three CCSF institutional service agreements, including one with SF Police and SF Fire focused on career expansion and the first in healthcare. For Homebridge, whose IHSS work is funded by a contract with the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services, it is the next link in a highly acclaimed person-centered care model with a ladder from home care to health care. “We believe that delivering critical training with employment is a way of doing things San Francisco and other jurisdictions everywhere California to increase the number of employees with incentives and a suitably skilled workforce capable of meeting the growing demands of an aging population California,” called Mark Burns, CEO of Homebridge.

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North East Medical Services and LucidAct Health partner to provide remote patient monitoring management for some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable seniors

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, June 22, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ – North East Medical Services (NEMS) and LucidAct Health Inc. have teamed up to help manage remote patient monitoring ( RPM). LucidAct’s innovative and linguistically appropriate virtual health care will aim to improve patient outcomes for some of NEMS’s San Francisco seniors with limited English proficiency by making these virtual services available and accessible to seniors from the comfort of their homes.

NEMS, a state-qualified health center based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is partnering with LucidAct Health, a leader in RPM and virtual visiting software based in Silicon Valley, to improve the health and lives of seniors living at the NEMS program for everyone to participate. Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in San Francisco. NEMS is one of the largest community health centers in the United States, targeting the medically underserved Asian population. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and clinics in San Francisco, Daly City and San Jose, NEMS provides comprehensive healthcare services to over 65,000 patients, most of whom are uninsured, low-income and prefer to be served in a language other than English. Launched in the heart of Chinatown in early 2021, the NEMS PACE program provides low-income, eligible seniors, the majority of whom are dual-eligible, with comprehensive medical and social services for Medicare and Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program). With 90% of their patients identifying as Asian, NEMS and NEMS PACE prioritize the provision of linguistically competent and culturally sensitive healthcare services.

Dr. Jerry Jew, NEMS Chief Strategy Officer, said, “We believe that having a comprehensive system of care for our PACE participants is the key to greater health equity while ensuring the safety and comfort of their home. Through our partnership with LucidAct Health, we can provide the easy-to-use remote supply devices with multi-language capabilities via the 4G / 5G LTE network. ”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care was a safe alternative to personal care, but access to many of these services remains a challenge for seniors. These challenges were even greater for people with limited English language skills. LucidAct’s RPM management provides seamless and easy-to-use virtual nursing tailored for seniors. LucidAct’s multilingual devices can provide services in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and other languages ​​as required.

“The NEMS PACE care team is excited to test this innovative technology. Many of our PACE participants face barriers to virtual care with the tools currently available due to advanced and complicated technology that is difficult for seniors to navigate. Our population continues to be challenged by poor English language skills. LucidAct removes both of these obstacles for us, ”said Sharon Raver-Villanueva, Director of the NEMS PACE program. “I’m excited to see how LucidAct’s linguistically proficient RPM management can help improve the health and wellbeing of our participants while providing our care team with the clinical data they need for optimal care.”

The demand for virtual care and care coordination from home has skyrocketed since the pandemic. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) survey[1] 51% of US consumers are concerned about going back to health care facilities. In addition, older patients with language and cultural barriers face additional challenges. These include the lack of access to suitable means of transport, the lack of easy-to-use technology and care teams who cannot converse in their native language

“LuicdAct’s AI technology delivers intelligent real-time data to our vendors,” said Murali Athuluri, NEMS chief information officer. “This is crucial for identifying important trends and highlighting social determinants of health faster than comparable solutions.”

Through this collaboration, NEMS will leverage LucidAct Health’s virtual nursing platform to enable remote monitoring and AI technology to ease the burden on providers of reading large volumes of clinical patient records and the flow of device data. LuicdAct Health will integrate with NEMS ‘EMR system and deliver AI-driven insights directly to providers via FHIR-based APIs, which in turn will increase the quality of care.

“This is an important milestone for LucidAct Health as it allows us to focus on the needs of the growing Medicaid population. The needs of these members are naturally more complex and require a different approach to virtual care and care coordination. We are honored and excited to work with such a leader in the Medicaid space, ”said Grace Chen, Founder and CEO of LucidAct Health Inc.

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ABOUT NEMS

North East Medical Services (NEMS) is one of the largest nonprofit health centers in the United States serving the medically underserved population of the San Francisco Bay Area. NEMS provides comprehensive healthcare services to a wide variety of patients, most of whom are low-income, have access to Medicaid, and have limited English language skills. NEMS providers and employees provide language-proficient and culturally sensitive services in many languages ​​and dialects other than English, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Toishan, Vietnamese, Burmese, Tagalog, Spanish and Hindi. NEMS operates 12 clinics in San Francisco, Daly City, and San Jose. More information is available at www.nems.org.

ABOUT NEMS PACE

The North East Medical Services Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (NEMS PACE) was launched in San Francisco’s Chinatown in early 2021. PACE is a nationally recognized model of care for older adults with chronic health needs. NEMS PACE provides participants with access to a dedicated care team that works together to develop a comprehensive and personalized care plan to meet the unique medical, social and emotional needs of each participant. More information is available at https://www.nems.org/pace/about.html.

ABOUT LUCIIDACT HEALTH

LucidAct Health is a cloud-based API and software company for virtual care based in Silicon Valley, California. It specializes in developing virtual care and remote monitoring solutions for Medicaid patients that enable them to have equal access to healthcare even when technology is difficult to access. Emerging AI technology is focused on uncovering the social determinants of the health of patients with complex needs, who are usually also most at risk. More information is available at www.lucidact.com

[1] Dunbrack, LA (2020, December). IDC Survey: Prioritizing Safe Access To Supply To Address COVID-19 Concerns Among Consumers. IDC. https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US46582320.

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