St Luke's is a blessing!

Christine Tweety Pyston

Me, my mom, and my step dad all use St. Luke’s. I have used the emergency room there. I do not want to have to go far away to the hospital. I don’t drive. I have migraine headaches, neck pain, leg pain. Also I am HIV positive and I have breathing problems.

I need this hospital.

Name omitted
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

For the past 5 years I go to St. Luke’s every 3-6 months. The closure of St. Luke’s would be very serious.

I don’t know where I would go for my care if St. Luke’s closed.

Roselee Higdon
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

I live in Bernal Heights and I have been going to St. Luke's since 1947.
St. Luke’s is close to my home and my children were born at St. Luke’s. I don’t have a car and it so would be hard for me to go across town to the hospital without St. Luke’s

Julia Yim
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

Mi Familia ha estado en St. Luke’s por 15 años. Es mas conveniente tener un hospital cerca donde vivo, porque en una emergencia me atenderan rapido, en casos de emergencia lleveran los paramedicos a mi madre a este hospital. La atendieron muy bien en este hospital a mi madre, el servicio es excelente tanto los doctores como las enfermeras, les suplico no lo cierren

My family has used St. Luke’s for 15 years. It is more convenient to have a hospital near where I live. Because n an emergency I would be seen quickly. When there was an emergency the paramedics took my mother to this hospital. They were attentive to her in the hospital. The service is excellent; The doctors as well as the nurses. I am begging please don’t close it.

Piedad Dennos
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

CPMC’s plan would create hardship for me, no access to Emergency Room Services. I would be forced to go way across town to another E.R. Many people will be in the same situation as me.

Teresa Laxamara
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

I personally use St. Luke’s for my emergency services. Also, I am a social worker that works with seniors and adults with disabilities that rely SOLEY on St. Luke’s for emergency and hospital care ( primary and urgent). Their conditions are very serious and having to travel farther to SFGH can negatively impact their treatment and healing. It is important to have St. Luke’s in our community because a lot of people rely on the services to live. It is primarily a low income community who will suffer. Closing down St. Luke’s would be an injustice to the people (children, youth, adults, seniors) of San Francisco!

Jenah Yangwas
San Francisco, CA 94116
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

I live in the immediate vicinity of St. Luke’s Hospital. I have used St. Luke’s for 30 years. My eldest grandchild and two other siblings were delivered there. Being elderly, I’m 81 years old, it’s starting to feel hard to go to far hospitals.

Anita M. Juason
San Francisco, CA 94110Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Senior Program

I was very upset when I heard that the St. Luke's birthing facilities might be closed down. This is a terrible mistake, they are a vital part of our community which we can not live without! I gave birth to my son, Finley Ruth Rodriguez, at St. Luke's on April 13, 2006. My husband and I chose St. Luke's because of their superb reputation and their proximity to our home. We wanted to birth our baby in OUR community. Our whole experience at St. Luke's was perfect. We have sung the praises of Homestyle Midwifery and St. Luke's to everyone we know and meet. Please do not close our local birthing center. Finley and I walk by St. Luke's almost every day and each time we pass it I proudly tell him that he was born there. Don't take away his sibling's right to be born at St. Luke's, as well as countless other neighborhood children who need a local, trustworthy hospital with an excellent record to nurture them into the world.It would be a terrible injustice for the planned closure of St. Luke's birthing facilities to continue. Please don't let it happen. We need St. Luke's to keep bringing new life safely into the world.

Sincerely,
Molly Ruth Rodriguez