Head Start, devised by Dr. Jonathan Finlay of Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, treats brain tumors in young patients using no or limited amounts of radiation.
Author: Robert Fulton
The nonprofit Southside Coalition pools their resources to develop a small network of primary care integrated with specialty care for their low-income clientele.
Bob Pack lost his 10-year-old son Troy and 7-year-old daughter Alana when they were hit by a driver under the influence of alcohol and prescription painkillers. Pack questioned how authorities could not have noticed someone obtaining exorbitant amounts of pain pills, and wondered why there was no system in place to monitor such action. He later learned that the state of California does have a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES). Pack also learned that CURES is both technologically inadequate and critically underfunded.
L.A. Care Health Plan is the nation’s largest public health plan, providing coverage to approximately a little more than one million Los Angeles County residents and helping people navigate the health care system – all while planning for the coming changes of the Affordable Care Act.
The Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray sits in the small conference room of the center that bears his name. He is both humbled and amazed by the fact of the eponymous Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, part of the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion & Civic Culture.
Lilia Marin-Alvarez, the human resources director for the To Help Everyone Clinic in Los Angeles, would like to hire a new physician. Yesterday.
The Salton Sea is shrinking, making it shallower and more susceptible to events such as the Big Stink. But while the hydrogen sulfide can be dismissed as more of an inconvenience than a hazard, a greater threat may be looming.
Maternal mortality rates have increased in California and racial disparities persist.
Casa Dominguez includes a childcare facility, after-school programs, college prep courses, career counseling, computer training and ESL classes, all orchestrated by a services coordinator. But what sets Casa Dominguez apart starts with a health clinic on the community’s grounds operated by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center.
South Los Angeles, maybe best remembered as ground zero for the 1992 Rodney King riots, now boasts an unexpected draw. Patients are traveling from other parts of Los Angeles to seek care at the South Central Family Health Center, a clinic that provides health care to the uninsured – and is using grants from the Recovery Act and the Affordable Care Act to innovate and grow.