San Francisco announced the conversion of 97 long-term treatment beds at the Behavioral Health Center into 57 secure "locked" beds for more severe psychiatric patients, in addition to 16 new residential beds. This move, part of Mayor Lurieâs 1,500-bed initiative, has triggered protests from nurses concerned about the 82 residents who will be displaced. Funding for this change comes from a $21.3 million state grant for renovations. Critics accuse the administration of manipulating bed numbers, as long-term patients face relocation amid modifications to the facility.
The city is converting dozens of long-term residential treatment beds at the Behavioral Health Center on the campus of San Francisco General Hospital into secure "locked" beds for patients with more severe conditions.
Nurses at the Behavioral Health Center have highlighted that this swap is done at the expense of moving the current 82 residents elsewhere.
To swap out the beds at the Behavioral Health Center, Lurie is using $21.3 million in state funding to undertake the necessary "critical renovation."
They are playing numbers games now, said Jennifer Esteen, a psychiatric nurse at the Department of Public Health and the vice president of organizing for SEIU 1021.
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