Keep Team II on Monterey Blvd.
The
Team II Clinic is a small community health clinic that has been located
on Monterey Blvd for 30 years. It serves 200 people with serious mental
illnesses, specializing in services to the LGBT community city-wide as
well as people in the Glen Park, Sunnyside, Diamond Heights, and Noe Valley
areas. The current location is well suited for our patients with a quiet residential setting combined with both good public transportation and good parking. Patients are used to the Clinic on Monterey Blvd. It is accessible, familiar, and comfortable. It is a place they freel safe in and have grown to trust. DPH's proposal to move the clinic to the other side of town on South Van Ness Avenue makes no sense for the Community, the Clients, or the Department. Many patients will not follow it to the new location. For patients living around our clinic, it means taking two or three busses to get their treatment and medications. Many of the patients are fragile and are afraid to go to parts of the city they do not know and where they may feel unsafe. The probable results: patients drop out of treatment or stop receiving their medications, leading to an increase in expensive psychiatric hospitalizations costing $3,000 a day, potentially lasting weeks. DPH says it wil save $4,000 a month with this move, but it only takes two or three hospitalizations to end up costing more than it saves. Help us Stop this Move Keep Team II Where It Does the Most Good. |
In the Fall of 1999, hundreds of patients were forced to stand in lines for many hours at the Main Pharmacy of San Francisco General Hospital. Hospital administrators wanted to drive Medi-Cal patients away, and had closed an auxiliary pharmacy with the express purpose of creating long lines in the Main Pharmacy. Hundreds of angry patients and health workers flooded Health Commission meetings to prevent Administration from closing the Main Pharmacy also.