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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6635_MD002506.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124156 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6635_MD002506-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"State are looking into a backlog of elder abuse cases after advocates complained of years of questionable practices. 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It’s just the process,” Lenerd told lawmakers. “We are investigating every complaint we receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Patricia L. McGinnis, the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said she had received private assurances from people within Lenerd’s professional certification branch that there were nearly 10,000. McGinnis said the department has been “extraordinarily unresponsive and has a long history of noncompliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their pattern has been to do nothing and hope no one notices,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another witness at today’s hearing, the state ombudsman for long-term care, Joseph Rodrigues, said local ombudsmen have problems with their complaint referrals getting stuck on desks at the public health department and not having phone calls returned. Once, one was told to stop investigating a complaint even though allegations continued to come in from that particular facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health_6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124160\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health_6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"California Advocates for Nusing Home Reform Executive Director Pat McGinnis speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. 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(Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The backlog is especially problematic, both officials and advocates testified, because as time goes on, substantiating allegations becomes more difficult as staff moves, evidence disappears and those who complain die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, held by the Assembly Committee on Health and Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, comes four months after The Center for Investigative Reporting \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found state health regulators had routinely conducted delayed and superficial investigations\u003c/a> into complaints of abuse and neglect at the state’s long-term care facilities for the elderly and developmentally disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, asked where the choke points of the investigative process were, saying his goal was to determine how the Legislature could assist the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Chapman, the director of the Department of Public Health, did not provide specifics, though the committee and officials set a March deadline for a progress report on an improvement plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are significant process complexities that are involved here,” he said. Chapman testified that the department is looking to hire more staff members to help process complaints but that past staff hires haven’t helped the backlog significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIR investigation\u003c/a> focused on the role of public health department investigators within the Licensing and Certification division, which has oversight over the quality of care in residential facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124162\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124162\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Chapman, MD, State Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Chapman, MD, State Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past several years, the Department of Public Health has closed the vast majority of abuse and misconduct cases without action, CIR found. And the agency mostly has stopped referring cases to the California Department of Justice for prosecution and cut back on revoking licenses of nursing aides suspected of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, abuse cases often are sent to Sacramento headquarters, where investigators rarely receive approval from supervisors to make site visits. During a mass dismissal of nearly 1,000 cases in 2009, many complaints were closed with a single phone call from the investigator, CIR learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this mass dismissal, Lenerd said that not every complaint warrants a site visit but that all 1,000 cases were investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At no time did we dismiss complaints with just one phone call. There were investigation steps used for every complaint allegation received,” she said. “As the cases got older, there (was) less evidence, less witnesses to interview. But we investigated every complaint allegation received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires that the Department of Public Health perform on-site, in-person investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis, requested a disposition of the 1,000 cases, which Chapman said he would provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case from 2008, which demonstrates the department’s slow investigative process, nursing aide Jason Joslin physically abused at least one patient at a facility in Riverside County. Although the public health department opened an investigation right away, it wasn’t until 2011 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/782744-cna-jjoslin-status.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the state took away his certification\u003c/a> and decided to add him to a nationwide exclusion list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by then, Joslin had moved to Seattle, obtained a temporary nursing assistant license from Washington and was fully credentialed within months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124164\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6633_photo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6633_photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elsie Fossum’s nieces and nephews look at family photos of their aunt, on the seventh anniversary of her death. 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The nursing assistant, who had in the past made disparaging comments about the elderly, quit soon after the incident and took a job at a nearby facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years after Fossum’s death, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened a criminal investigation, in part, following questions from reporters. The case remains unsolved, and the nursing assistant has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative hearing came about a week after a task force convened by the California Health and Human Services Agency, which oversees the Department of Public Health, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/DCTFDocs/PlanfortheFutureofDevelopmentalCenters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a report\u003c/a> on the future of California’s developmental centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, the agency’s goal is for state-operated residential facilities to play a decreasing role in caring for the California’s developmentally disabled residents. As such, the task force’s report focuses on how to transition more residents from the state’s five board-and-care facilities into smaller, more specialized community programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, it recommends establishing health resource centers where people who have transitioned to community homes would receive coordinated health services, ranging from mental health care to medication management to medical equipment and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends that the state operate smaller acute crisis facilities and crisis response teams, provide funding to regional facilities to expand care for those with enduring and advanced medical needs, and continue operating the Canyon Springs Community Facility and the Porterville Developmental Center’s Secure Treatment Program for those in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s taking so long? It’s just the process,” Lenerd told lawmakers. “We are investigating every complaint we receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Patricia L. McGinnis, the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said she had received private assurances from people within Lenerd’s professional certification branch that there were nearly 10,000. McGinnis said the department has been “extraordinarily unresponsive and has a long history of noncompliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their pattern has been to do nothing and hope no one notices,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another witness at today’s hearing, the state ombudsman for long-term care, Joseph Rodrigues, said local ombudsmen have problems with their complaint referrals getting stuck on desks at the public health department and not having phone calls returned. Once, one was told to stop investigating a complaint even though allegations continued to come in from that particular facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health_6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124160\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health_6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"California Advocates for Nusing Home Reform Executive Director Pat McGinnis speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Advocates for Nusing Home Reform Executive Director Pat McGinnis speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The backlog is especially problematic, both officials and advocates testified, because as time goes on, substantiating allegations becomes more difficult as staff moves, evidence disappears and those who complain die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, held by the Assembly Committee on Health and Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, comes four months after The Center for Investigative Reporting \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found state health regulators had routinely conducted delayed and superficial investigations\u003c/a> into complaints of abuse and neglect at the state’s long-term care facilities for the elderly and developmentally disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, asked where the choke points of the investigative process were, saying his goal was to determine how the Legislature could assist the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Chapman, the director of the Department of Public Health, did not provide specifics, though the committee and officials set a March deadline for a progress report on an improvement plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are significant process complexities that are involved here,” he said. Chapman testified that the department is looking to hire more staff members to help process complaints but that past staff hires haven’t helped the backlog significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIR investigation\u003c/a> focused on the role of public health department investigators within the Licensing and Certification division, which has oversight over the quality of care in residential facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124162\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124162\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/CIR-Public-Health-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Chapman, MD, State Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Chapman, MD, State Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health speaks a the Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly Committee on Aging & Long-Term Care and Assembly Committee on Health held at the State Captiol on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (Randy Allen/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past several years, the Department of Public Health has closed the vast majority of abuse and misconduct cases without action, CIR found. And the agency mostly has stopped referring cases to the California Department of Justice for prosecution and cut back on revoking licenses of nursing aides suspected of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, abuse cases often are sent to Sacramento headquarters, where investigators rarely receive approval from supervisors to make site visits. During a mass dismissal of nearly 1,000 cases in 2009, many complaints were closed with a single phone call from the investigator, CIR learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this mass dismissal, Lenerd said that not every complaint warrants a site visit but that all 1,000 cases were investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At no time did we dismiss complaints with just one phone call. There were investigation steps used for every complaint allegation received,” she said. “As the cases got older, there (was) less evidence, less witnesses to interview. But we investigated every complaint allegation received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires that the Department of Public Health perform on-site, in-person investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis, requested a disposition of the 1,000 cases, which Chapman said he would provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case from 2008, which demonstrates the department’s slow investigative process, nursing aide Jason Joslin physically abused at least one patient at a facility in Riverside County. Although the public health department opened an investigation right away, it wasn’t until 2011 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/782744-cna-jjoslin-status.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the state took away his certification\u003c/a> and decided to add him to a nationwide exclusion list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by then, Joslin had moved to Seattle, obtained a temporary nursing assistant license from Washington and was fully credentialed within months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124164\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6633_photo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6633_photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elsie Fossum’s nieces and nephews look at family photos of their aunt, on the seventh anniversary of her death. 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The nursing assistant, who had in the past made disparaging comments about the elderly, quit soon after the incident and took a job at a nearby facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years after Fossum’s death, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened a criminal investigation, in part, following questions from reporters. The case remains unsolved, and the nursing assistant has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative hearing came about a week after a task force convened by the California Health and Human Services Agency, which oversees the Department of Public Health, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/DCTFDocs/PlanfortheFutureofDevelopmentalCenters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a report\u003c/a> on the future of California’s developmental centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, the agency’s goal is for state-operated residential facilities to play a decreasing role in caring for the California’s developmentally disabled residents. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath-e1389121301914.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122765\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath-e1389121301914.jpg\" alt=\"(Jahi McMath Fund)\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jahi McMath Fund)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Dolan, the San Francisco lawyer representing the family of Jahi McMath, appeared today on a Huffington Post Live panel to discuss the brain-dead Oakland teenager and the ethical and legal issues surrounding the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that while it would be inappropriate for him to offer a medical opinion, “There’s always hope that there could be life that will be returned to Jahi. … There are several documented cases where there have been individuals who have been diagnosed with brain death who have evolved from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahi, 13, was declared brain dead last month after surgery at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland. Her cardiopulmonary function has been sustained by a ventilator since then. Dolan won a court order on behalf of Jahi’s mother, Latasha Winkfield, preventing the hospital from removing the ventilator, and Jahi was transferred last week to another facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There are several documented cases where there have been individuals who have been diagnosed with brain death who have evolved from that.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Christopher Dolan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dolan acknowledged after the move that Jahi “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/brain-dead-jahi-mcmath-removed-from-childrens-hospital-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is in very bad shape\u003c/a>.” But \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cbdlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he later reported via Twitter\u003c/a> that doctors had performed a tracheostomy and insert a feeding tube, and that physicians “are optimistic that her condition has stabilized and that her health is improving from when she was taken from CHO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Jahi is legally dead, Children’s Hospital had refused to perform those procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan argued today that the case can’t be fully understood without considering the religious faith of Jahi’s family and the New Testament’s story of Jesus Christ:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I don’t think you can separate the family’s beliefs from the family’s hopes. And I think that the context of this case as it happened during the holiday season, the Christmas season for them, is important, because we were praying to a god who brought his son here by a miracle, who then committed miracles including raising of the dead, who died and was resurrected by a miracle. So when you bring in their beliefs as Christian beliefs, you have to call your own beliefs into question and wonder, ‘Do we practice a fiction, which is that miracles happened only once, a long time ago? Or do we practice a real belief?’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Asked what the family’s “end game” is in the case, Dolan said: “Well, I think if there’s not a radical recovery, the family’s going to evaluate what the condition of Jahi is and have an opportunity to then make a decision. The mother has publicly stated that if her daughter deteriorates or if her daughter becomes in pain, that she will make the decision as any responsible parent would to remove her from the ventilator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors consulted about the case inside and outside Children’s Hospital have said the condition of the girl’s body will degrade over time despite any intervention. A summary of one opinion \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jahi-mcmath-body-deteriorating-20140108,0,4831276.story#axzz2qVfTrEac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The deterioration of Jahi’s body is now the only possible course and “became inevitable the moment she died,” according to a court declaration from Dr. Heidi Flori, a critical care physician at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, which had sought to remove the teen from the ventilator after she was declared brain dead Dec. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The medical team and I believe that additional and more dramatic signs of the body’s deterioration will continue to manifest over time, regardless of any procedures and regardless of any heroic measures that any facility in the country might attempt,” Flori said in the declaration filed in U.S. District Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mechanical support and other measures taken to maintain an illusion of life where none exists cannot maintain that illusion indefinitely,” she added.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the video from Huffington Post Live:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=52d062b502a76077a60004eb\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Feb. 20, 2014:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/19/jahi-mcmath-doing-much-better-physically-mom-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jahi McMath ‘Doing Much Better Physically,’ Mom Says\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath-e1389121301914.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath-e1389121301914.jpg\" alt=\"(Jahi McMath Fund)\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122765\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jahi McMath Fund)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family of Jahi McMath isn’t disclosing where the brain-dead 13-year-old has been transferred, saying only that she was transported via ground after she was removed from Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland on Sunday and that she’s at a facility that shares their belief that Jahi is still alive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In legal filings last month, the attorney for the family said it had heard from two facilities willing to accept Jahi — an unnamed one in Arizona and one on Long Island, east of New York City. Attorney Christopher Dolan’s filing included a $32,000 estimate for an air ambulance that would take the girl to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbli.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Beginnings Community Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation\u003c/a> in Medford, N.Y. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahi’s uncle, Omari Sealey, joined Dolan in a press conference in San Francisco Monday to discuss the transfer. From an Associated Press account: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[Sealey] told reporters Monday that Jahi traveled by ground and that there were no complications in the transfer, suggesting she may still be in California. Nurses and doctors are working to stabilize her with intravenous antibiotics, minerals and supplements while she remains on the ventilator, but her condition is too precarious for additional measures, lawyer Christopher Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new facility has “been very welcoming with open arms. They have beliefs just like ours,” Sealey said. “They believe as we do … It’s a place where she is going to get the treatment she deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly $50,000 in private donations the family has raised since taking the case public helped cover the carefully choreographed handoff to the critical care team and transportation to the new location, Sealey said. The facility, where Jahi is expected to remain for some time, is run by a charitable organization that so far hasn’t sought payment, Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men refused to name the facility or reveal where it was located, saying they wanted to prevent staff members and the families of other patients from being harassed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Dolan also addressed Jahi’s physical condition. According to the San Jose Mercury News: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Right now, we don’t know if she’s going to make it,” said Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s in very bad shape,” he said. “What I can tell you is that those examinations show that her medical condition, separate from the brain issue, is not good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan’s frank and sober assessment echoes a Friday legal declaration by Children’s Hospital Oakland critical care pediatrician Dr. Heidi R. Flori, who opposed surgical insertion of a feeding tube because the girl’s body was deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brain-dead for 25 days, Jahi has been sustained under court order with a breathing machine and other medical interventions since complications arose after surgery to remove her tonsils and other tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Monday, she had gone without nourishment because the hospital had diagnosed her as legally and medically dead. Dolan said Monday that Jahi is now receiving potassium, minerals and hormones through an IV, in addition to antibiotics.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post on Jahi McMath’s removal from Oakland Children’s Hospital, from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Terry Collins\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of Jahi McMath has had the brain-dead 13-year-old taken from Children’s Hospital in Oakland to an undisclosed location. The girl was moved by a critical care team about 8 p.m. Sunday while attached to a ventilator but without a feeding tube, family attorney Christopher Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very tense situation,” said Dolan. “Everybody played by the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/122763/jahimcmath-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122765\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-122765 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath.jpg\" alt=\"(Jahi McMath Fund)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jahi McMath Fund)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Durand, the hospital’s chief of pediatrics, said the girl was released to the coroner. The coroner then released her into the custody of her mother, Nailah Winkfield, as per court order, Durand said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said Jahi could be transferred under an agreement with Children’s Hospital and the girl’s mother will be held accountable for developments that could include Jahi going into cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County coroner’s office issued a death certificate for the girl Friday but said the document is incomplete because no cause of death has been determined pending an autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may have issued one but we don’t have it. We don’t think she’s dead,” Dolan said. “We got all the necessary legal paperwork in order to get Jahi out of there.” He said the deal to move the girl came together Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court injunction prohibiting Children’s Hospital from removing the ventilator that has kept Jahi’s heart pumping since her Dec. 9 surgery expires at 5 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan wouldn’t specify where the girl was taken but he said “they are going to care for her, respect her and love her. And they’re going to call her Jahi, not ‘the body.””\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told reporters at his office in San Francisco late Sunday that the girl will be getting a feeding tube before she is transferred to a permanent facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan asked for privacy for the caregivers because the issue has raised such strong emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s brought out the best in people and the worst in people,” he said. “We’ve had people make threats from around the country. 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The girl was moved by a critical care team about 8 p.m. Sunday while attached to a ventilator but without a feeding tube, family attorney Christopher Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very tense situation,” said Dolan. “Everybody played by the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/122763/jahimcmath-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122765\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-122765 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/jahimcmath.jpg\" alt=\"(Jahi McMath Fund)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jahi McMath Fund)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Durand, the hospital’s chief of pediatrics, said the girl was released to the coroner. 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In a motion filed Tuesday with the California First District Court of Appeal, the hospital is requesting that order be overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24823896/jahi-mcmath-hospital-fights-court-remove-brain-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The hospital’s motion states that Nailah Winkfield, Jahi’s mother, has had enough time to find a facility that would accept her daughter. “No such facility has been identified and it’s not plausible that a medical facility will be identified to care for such a person,” according to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s court filings said a facility in Medford, N.Y., is willing to take Jahi and provide 24-hour medical care, but the facility did not return calls for comment on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The hospital is also fighting the family’s request for a federal court to order Jahi be kept on a ventilator. The hospital’s filing argued that because she had already died, no irreparable harm would be suffered from turning it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahi’s brain damage occurred after she went into cardiac arrest following post-surgical bleeding. The procedures aimed to cure severe sleep apnea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24825161/jahi-mcmath-terri-schiavo-group-secretly-leading-transfer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa Times\u003c/a> is reporting there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terri Schiavo\u003c/a> connection in the case: the Medford brain-injury treatment center that will take Jahi is dedicated to Schiavo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said publicly for the first time that it has been helping Jahi’s family for weeks to find a place to transfer the 13-year-old Oakland girl declared brain-dead by doctors. The network has worked “in relative silence for the sake of the sensitivity of her case….”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brother and mother of Schiavo participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the first medical facility in the country dedicated to the Florida woman.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Schiavo, languishing in a persistent vegetative state, was the subject of fierce and prolonged legal, political, and cultural battles in the 1990s and 2000s. She died in 2005 after her feeding tube was removed. Her case is different from McMath’s because she was not declared brain dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the link to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbli.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Beginnings Community Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation\u003c/a>, where the family wants Jahi to be moved. Its online mission statement says the organization’s goal is “to help develop state of the art long-term rehabilitation services to survivors of traumatic brain injury and other cognitive and physical disorders. In order to help those who are on a journey of recovery, New Beginnings will help facilitate a holistic approach to survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other physical and cognitive disorders, offer support for their families, and raise awareness for the needs of this growing community.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website says owner Allyson Scerri started the center after her father suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident. Her bio says she “has worked with the public for three decades as owner of a thriving beauty salon and successful hair and make-up platform artist. Her work as a social advocate and leader in the health field began years ago when she started a support group for women with infertility problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Jahi-McMatch-Family-Seeks-Care-at-New-Beginnings-Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Center-in-Medford-NY-238236061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a Dec. 29 letter to (the family’s lawyer) Dolan, Scerri wrote that she was “aware of Jahi McMath’s dire situation and we are willing to open our outpatient facility” to her in a new facility called The Brendan House, which is “near completion.” She wrote that she would provide Jahi with nursing staff, licensed respiratory therapists and a pediatrician. Her letter does not address cost, or who would pay for the services. On a New Beginnings Facebook post, the organization notes that “this child has been defined as a deceased person yet she has all the functional attributes of a living person despite her brain injury.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>New Beginnings has been posting about the case on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/www.nbli.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a>, where some commenters have been leaving confrontational posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two California facilities have previously turned down requests to take Jahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area has posted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Jahi-McMatch-Family-Seeks-Care-at-New-Beginnings-Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Center-in-Medford-NY-238236061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of an interview with Dr. Paul Byrne\u003c/a>, who filed a declaration with the motion by Jahi’s family in federal court. AP reports that Byrne states that he visited Jahi’s bedside and observed her responding to her grandmother’s voice and touch by moving. In the video, Byrne, who does not believe brain death is equivalent to the end of life, says Jahi is “not truly dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC7’s Dan Ashley spoke yesterday with a grief-stricken Nailah Winkfield, Jahi McMath’s mother, after the court extended the restraining order against removing the ventilator. Winkfield says she believes Jahi will wake up. “There’s too many cases that I’ve read, that I’ve seen, of people having brain damage and they’re waking up. And it’s not like a myth, these are actual things that have happened. So I just feel like why can’t they happen to my daughter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, told CNN last week that this particular case is “giving the impression that dead people can come back to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notes from Paul Graham Fisher, the Stanford doctor who assessed Jahi’s neurological activity, state there is a “complete absence of cerebral function and complete absence of brainstem function. Child meets all criteria for brain death, by professional societies and state of California.” The \u003ca href=\"http://media.nbcbayarea.com/documents/Fisher+-+Redacted+Rpt_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes\u003c/a> were obtained by NBC Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, KPIX has posted \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9677113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raw video\u003c/a> of a finger-pointing confrontation between family lawyer Chris Dolan and Children’s Hospital Oakland spokesman Sam Singer. Singer said Dolan was helping to “perpetuate a hoax.” Dolan, a personal injury attorney who said he had taken the McMath case for free, called Singer a “spin doctor.” \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/9677113-raw-video-mcmath-lawyer-hospital-spokesperson-confront-each-other/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for that video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>We always qualify our complaints about the cold in the Bay Area: Oh, it’s cold — but this is \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> compared to (name of hometown here). It’s true that the closer you live to the water here, the less insulation your home will have and the weaker the heating will be, and it’s occasionally uncomfortable on those few nights every year the temperature dips into the 30s. That just comes with the territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for one group of Bay Area residents, the cold weather is brutal and occasionally deadly. Those who live without reliable shelter face a night-to-night struggle to find some way, any way, to stay warm. For many, that means a pile of blankets, lots of layers of clothing and a piece of cardboard between them and the concrete they lie on. 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He’s 61 and has been in San Francisco “for years.” His tactic for staying warm on recent cold nights: “Curl up and try to get as warm as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. 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It comes on it goes off it comes on and goes off, so I turn the stove on. … I have another coat I put on, but it’s still cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Solies lives on the street and faces the freezing temperatures at night: "We need blankets. That's the most important thing. And love." 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”20″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124589678″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124589678″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chelan Cassidy: \u003c/strong> Chelan Cassidy told us she’s not homeless, but was in a soup line near the Civic Center to get a meal for her and her two-year-old daughter, Nyla. “I feel it’s like one hot meal a day for you know, it helps people sleep at night, and just to give you something warm in your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7930_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0142_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7930_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0142_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Lewis now lives in an SRO on 6th St. But frequently, her heater doesn't work: "I have another coat I put on, but it’s still cold." (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”20″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124589794″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124589794″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denise Lewis: \u003c/strong>Denise Lewis is 57 and stays at the \u003ca href=\"http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Bayanihan_House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayanihan House\u003c/a> SRO on 6th Street, just south of Market. She’s lived in San Francisco her whole life. She was homeless for 10 years, went into the hospital and care homes about five years ago. She’s been at Bayanihan about a year and says it’s cold there, too. “I’ve been getting my heater fixed. It comes on it goes off it comes on and goes off, so I turn the stove on. … I have another coat I put on, but it’s still cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Solies lives on the street and faces the freezing temperatures at night: "We need blankets. That's the most important thing. And love." (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”20″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124586712″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124586712″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mauricio Solies \u003c/strong>– Maurico Solies is 56, and we met him near St. Anthony’s, in the Tenderloin. He’s been in San Francisco since 1975 and has been living on the streets for about a year. He lost his place in a shelter. “I have to get it back … because the rain is coming. It’s going to pour. I’m going to ask for the shelter again. I was there for four months. It beautiful. You have to do the same thing, respect, respect, don’t fight, and that’s it. Don’t fight with nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7928_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0095_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7928_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0095_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Thomas works at Saint Boniface Church on Golden Gate Avenue. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/berkeley-bans-tobacco-smoking-in-apartments-condos/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/smoking-ban.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120138\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/smoking-ban.jpg\" alt=\"smoking-ban\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley residents who live in buildings with more than one unit will not be allowed to smoke inside beginning in May 2014. (Damian Kennedy/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smoking cigarettes will no longer be allowed inside the units of multi-family housing developments in Berkeley, effective May 2014, after a unanimous vote by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-city-council/\">Berkeley City Council\u003c/a> on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council decision, once it’s adopted on second reading, would \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-03-Item-30-Tobacco-Free-Multi-Unit-Housing.pdf\">prohibit tobacco smoke inside all residential buildings that have more than one unit\u003c/a>, and in all common areas of those buildings as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After considering the issue twice earlier this year, the council voted, on first reading, to approve the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-03-Item-30-Tobacco-Free-Multi-Unit-Housing.pdf\">new ordinance\u003c/a>, which puts forward enforcement guidelines that officials hope will protect the rights of both non-smoking neighbors as well as residents who receive complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the ordinance, the city’s Public Health Department will provide smoking cessation classes and education through December 2016. City staff will provide sample language about the ordinance and its enforcement to landlords to help spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serena Chen, regional advocacy director in Oakland of the American Lung Association, told the council that, by her count, Berkeley would be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Grid-of-EB-cities10.-by-provision.pdf\">17th city in the nation\u003c/a> to pass an effective smoke-free multi-unit housing ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you will be the first city to enforce it right,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in May, new leases for all tenants will include mandatory non-smoking clauses. Existing tenants will be offered a voluntary non-smoking addendum to their leases. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Item-30-Pres.pdf\">Read an overview \u003c/a>presented by city staff to council Tuesday night.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge to the ordinance previously had been how it would be enforced equitably and who would be responsible for enforcement. Staff explained the process to council members Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/graph-640x383.png\" alt=\"Under Berkeley’s new tobacco-free multi-unit housing ordinance, a smoking resident would not receive a citation unless the city receives complaints from multiple residents. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under Berkeley’s new tobacco-free multi-unit housing ordinance, a smoking resident would not receive a citation unless the city receives complaints from multiple residents. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the new law, upon receipt of the first complaint about a resident smoking indoors — which must be made in writing using a city form — staff would send a notice to alert the resident about the complaint and provide information about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If, within six months, the city receives additional complaints from two residents in two separate units about that same smoker, the city could issue a ticket or an infraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoking is already banned in the city’s commercial zones, and “Berkeley has implemented bans on smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and parks,” according to Tuesday night’s staff report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jesse-arreguin/\">Jesse Arreguín\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/max-anderson/\">Max Anderson\u003c/a> expressed concern about the use of the infraction as a method of enforcement, because it would send involved parties to court and potentially pose significant problems for residents singled out as smokers, justly or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín asked staff to include language that would require complaints to made under penalty of perjury to raise the bar for honesty in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of my concerns was, what’s there to stop someone who just doesn’t like their neighbor from using this to file a complaint,” Arreguín said Wednesday. “We don’t want to create incentives for the ordinance to be abused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Arreguín also clarified Wednesday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Item-28-Rev.pdf\">he is not seeking a city-wide smoking ban\u003c/a> in all Berkeley housing, an idea that was raised in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-s-next-smoking-ban-may-hit-home-4984302.php\">San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> in November. Arreguín staffer Anthony Sanchez said Wednesday that the idea had been raised rhetorically to question why the council had limited the scope of the smoking ban to residents of multi-family housing, and whether this signaled an unfair focus on tenants vs. single-family homeowners. Sanchez said the idea had not been an official proposal of any kind, despite what he described as its mischaracterization in the Chronicle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/zach-cowan/\">City attorney Zach Cowan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/christine-daniel/\">city manager Christine Daniel\u003c/a> assured council members that, under most circumstances involving code enforcement, the city sticks with citations rather than infractions because they’re much easier for staff to deal with and have a lower standard of proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowan said an infraction could be pursued when violations are severe or repeated, or when administrative citations are ignored, and said the city should wait to see how the new program works before speculating on problems that could arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the staff report: “Under current state law, potential penalties, whether pursued as an infraction or an administrative citation, would be in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for a first violation, two hundred dollars ($200) for a second violation within one year, and five hundred dollars ($500) for each additional violation within one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/mayor-tom-bates/\">Mayor Tom Bates\u003c/a>: “This is not a perfect law, but I’m committed, and council is committed, to monitor it and make sure it’s getting properly implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might be able to tinker around the edges down the road” if changes are needed, Bates added. “It’s, like, 95% there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Carol Denney told the council during public comment that she is a cancer patient who lives next door to two chain smokers. She said she was glad Bates promised continued attention to the issue and that the city strengthened an earlier version of the ordinance, and was thrilled to see the new law win unanimous support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have hope for the first time that my building will be cleared of secondhand smoke,” she said after the meeting. “I’m really hoping for success here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serena Chen, regional advocacy director in Oakland of the American Lung Association, told the council that, by her count, Berkeley would be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Grid-of-EB-cities10.-by-provision.pdf\">17th city in the nation\u003c/a> to pass an effective smoke-free multi-unit housing ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you will be the first city to enforce it right,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in May, new leases for all tenants will include mandatory non-smoking clauses. Existing tenants will be offered a voluntary non-smoking addendum to their leases. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Item-30-Pres.pdf\">Read an overview \u003c/a>presented by city staff to council Tuesday night.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge to the ordinance previously had been how it would be enforced equitably and who would be responsible for enforcement. Staff explained the process to council members Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/graph-640x383.png\" alt=\"Under Berkeley’s new tobacco-free multi-unit housing ordinance, a smoking resident would not receive a citation unless the city receives complaints from multiple residents. 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