November 8, 2007

Mr. Martin Brotman, M.D.
President and CEO
California Pacific Medical Center
2100 Webster St.,
#423San Francisco,
California 94115

cc: Judy Li, DPH. MBA
Chief Administrative Officer
St. Luke's Hospital
3555 Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA 94110

Mitchell Katz, MD
Department of Public Health
101 Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (12th district)
District Office
455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 14600
San Francisco, CA 94102

State Assembly member Mark Leno (13th district)
District Office
455 Golden Gate Ave. Suite 14300
San Francisco, CA 94102

Dear Doctor Brotman,

I am writing in solidarity with the many pleas to maintain St. Luke's Hospital open for our community.

Unlike many around me living in the Southeastern part of San Francisco, I am lucky to have private health insurance and had a choice of all the hospitals in the city for delivering my first child. After comparing all the services at the other local hospitals I still found that St. Luke's provided better all around services and in the end my expectations were surpassed.

In February of this year I gave birth to my precious daughter thanks to the wonderful care by my physicians, nurses, midwives and all the staff. My birth, although complicated and long, was made to be the most amazing experience thanks to the supportive, efficient, professional and caring staff at St. Luke's.

I can talk for hours. alone, about how great Dr. Laura Norrell is and she is just one of the many faces. This has been consistent with all the other services, whether it is my great primary care physician Dr. Mina Abazari, the staff, the pharmacy, the classes, etc. I was saddened to learn that even my amazing pediatrician Dr. Sareena Jaspal left due to all this mess.

St. Luke's is too precious of a commodity for it to be closed. Both and I and the community that has been served by St. Luke's needs for you to find another way to maintain this hospital open.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Jacobi