The board last week voted unanimously to send a two-page letter that largely dismisses the grand jury’s findings.
Tag: Healthy Communities
Posted inCosta Mesa, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
Costa Mesa to Develop Permanent Housing for Homeless
Up to 50 housing units would be built under the plan approved Tuesday.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
UC Irvine Conference Focuses on Criminalization of Homelessness
Experts discuss how allowing police to arrest homeless people for conducting the activities of daily living is essentially criminalizing poverty.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Diabetes Coaches Help Patients Communicate With Their Doctors
Questions for Sherrie Kaplan, a professor at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, who recently concluded the research project.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
CDC Confirms Valley Fever Epidemic; Cases Up 850 Percent in California
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed in a new research article that cases of the fungal disease rose at stunning rates.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Test Program for Dual Eligible Patients Set to Begin in October
The eight-county test program for those covered by both Medicare and Medi-Cal is to be a test run before the Affordable Car Act goes into effect.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
County Experiments With Privatizing Ambulance Service
For the first time, private paramedics were deployed last week in Orange County to transfer patients between health facilities.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Immigration Reform May Also Promote Changes in Health Care
While it is becoming increasingly clear that some level of immigration reform is on the horizon, the picture remains unfocused when it comes to how it will mesh with health care reform.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
Supervisors Inch Toward Response to CalOptima Report
They have appointed a subcommittee to analyze the recommendations that more supervisors be added to the 11-member CalOptima board.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Law Meant to Shift Autism Care to Health Insurers Has Caused Turmoil
The state law, passed last year, was intended to shift the cost behavior health therapies to insurance companies but has led to barriers of service for families.
