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Minutes of the December 17, 2020 Meeting
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MINUTES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ALAMEDA HEALTH CARE DISTRICT BOARD MEETING
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Attendees: Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, Acting Fire Chief Rick Zombeck, AHS COO Luis Fonseca, City Manager Eric Levitt, Assistant City Manager Gerry Beaudin, District Executive Director Deborah E. Stebbins, and Human Resources Director Nancy Bronstein, President of Alameda Health Care District/Division Chief Michael Williams,
Dr. Robert Deutsch
1. Call to Order/ General Introduction
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft convened the meeting at 4:04. She asked for everyone to introduce themselves.
2. Oral Communication Non-Agenda (Public Comment)
There were no public comments.
3. City /District Issue
3-A Minutes of the October 13, 2020 Meeting
The minutes of October 13, 2020 were accepted. Chief Zombeck motioned to approve and seconded by Michael Williams. A roll call vote was taken and they were unanimously approved.
3-B- Update on COVID-19 Impacts on Alameda Hospital
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft - The City and the County are experiencing a disconcerting increase in the increasing pace of the COVID case numbers and our intensive care unit bed capacity has fallen below the 15% threshold that the Governor set for the current stay at home order. Alameda County proactively decided to join that order when we were still at about 25% County-wide capacity as I understand, on December 7th, but we are not there anymore.
Questions I would like answered from this committee, of our ICU beds how may do we have? How many are available? Number of current ICU/Covid-19 patients? The schedule for vaccinations for medical staff in phase 1A of vaccination roll out?
Dr. Deutsch - ICU is not overloaded, there are two ventilator patients from COVID-19, we haven't had a high number of ICU beds and are doing pretty well at Alameda Hospital and doing well on PPE at this junction as well. There are eight beds in ICU, two pa...
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