The move comes amid reports that OC Supervisor Andrew Do is looking at moving Dr. Clayton Chau over to the CalOptima CEO job from his current position leading the county Health Care Agency.
Tag: Richard Sanchez
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COVID Vax Food Cards for Homeless People Are Up for Retroactive Approval Tuesday
Hundreds of the cards have been handed out in recent months, and the program is only now going to supervisors for public approval.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Underwood: On Covid Time – A Mid Pandemic Assessment
One year into this life altering pandemic we mark as Covid time, seems like a good time to take stock of our public health response in Orange County to the coronavirus thus far, and ask the critical question how fit is our frontline public health agency in seeing us through what will most certainly be a second year on Covid time?
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Are Orange County Hospitals, Already 60% Full, Ready For Coronavirus Case Surge?
Local hospitals, eyeing surges in coronavirus cases in other parts of the country, are stretching out their capacity to a total goal of 5,367 beds available countywide, and county health care agency officials say the medical facilities are more than 60% full.
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OC Officials Will Not Release What Cities Have Identified Coronavirus Cases
Orange County health officials will not list what cities have cases, a big difference than Los Angeles and San Diego. OC officials acknowledge cities have requested privacy and they think it’s counterproductive to say where the cases come from.
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Top OC Health Officials Face Public, Answer Coronavirus Questions in Online Town Hall
The virtual meeting — which got nearly 2,000 comments and more than 16,000 views on Facebook as of Thursday — comes as health officials have reported only six known cases countywide, out of the 3.2 million total people in OC, and no evidence of the virus spreading in the county yet.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
CalOptima Faces Criticism Over Delays For Homeless Medical Care
County Supervisor and CalOptima Director Andrew Do is criticizing the county health insurance agency for the poor and elderly for being too slow in implementing medical teams that will treat homeless people on the streets, just as CalOptima is being asked to appear in a federal court hearing over homeless policies next month.
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Details Decided for Santa Ana Riverbed Homeless Evictions; Judge Monitoring Closely
County officials and lawyers for homeless people said they planned to work over the three-day holiday weekend to help ensure any homeless people who want motel rooms before the Tuesday deadline can quickly move into them.
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Richard Sanchez to Lead OC Health Care Agency
Assistant Director Richard Sanchez will assume the top role at the end of March, when Director Mark Refowitz retires.
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OC Public Works Employees Recognized
Supervisors’ Chairman Bill Campbell hails the work of employees
during the December storms. Employees recount some of their
harrowing experiences.
