Health Commission approves donations and consent calendar contracts

The San Francisco Health Commission on Dec. 5 approved resolutions to accept several philanthropic gifts and carried its consent calendar, which included contract renewals and new agreements reviewed by the finance committee.

Mr. Wong presented a resolution asking the commission to recommend that the Board of Supervisors authorize the Department of Public Health to accept and expend gifts from EPIC Systems Corporation in amounts listed in the resolution. Commissioners moved and approved the resolution; Commissioner Chao (remote) recorded a 'yes' vote and commissioners in the room voiced 'Aye.'

The commission also approved a $382,578.93 donation from the San Francisco Public Health Foundation to support maternal, child and adolescent health services, including prenatal care, specialty child health services, family‑planning services and adolescent health programming.

During the finance and planning update, Commissioner Chao summarized multiple contracts that were placed on the consent calendar. Items discussed included a proposed continuation of ambulatory ECG monitoring services with Barty (successor to the previous contractor), an extension of the Maxim travel/temporary staffing contract (described as producing an approximately $900,000 annual difference based on usage), a multi‑year renewal with the San Francisco Public Health Foundation for food security programs (noted in the report as serving about 14,000 people per year), and a proposed extension for Positive Resource Centers (the presentation noted a proposed annual amount of approximately $1,736,000).

Commissioner Chao also described new and as‑needed contracts to support the Epic electronic health record implementation, including a proposed five‑year contract with Data Innovations LLC for $762,616 to connect laboratory data systems with Epic and four as‑needed vendors (named in the committee report) to assist with Epic module expertise.

The consent calendar — which included the contracts reviewed by the finance committee and Laguna Honda policy updates vetted by the Joint Commissioning Committee — was presented as a single vote and approved by voice vote after no public comment.

The meeting moved on to informational items and did not take further action after quorum concerns were raised later in the session.