Archive for Category: "Health"
California Gets Federal Nod to Coordinate Care for Most Vulnerable Patients
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram and Paul Kleyman Photo: Arsenio I. Jimenez, MD, examines patient at Sacramento’s Molina Medical Clinic. (Courtesy of Molina Healthcare) SACRAMENTO – California became the fifth and largest state this week to win federal approval for a new plan aimed at improving care for almost a half-million of the state’s [...]
Meet Community Hospital’s New Behavioral Health Program Team
DONORS, DOCTORS and DONUTS THURSDAY, MARCH 21 9:00-10:30 A.M. – Community Hospital Auditorium 1720 Termino Avenue, Long Beach CA – Plenty of Free Parking LONG BEACH – In any given year, one out of four adults in the U.S. will suffer from a mental health condition. Community Hospital Long Beach is expanding services over [...]
When Sexual Assault Is Reported, Long Beach’s Forensic Nurses Keep Things SANE
By Annie Merkley, Long Beach Post Bruised and broken, with trembling hands and a tear-stained face, calling 911 after a rape can be a difficult decision to make. But in Long Beach, there are compassionate and highly trained nurses here to help victims go through the often uncomfortable process of reporting rape. Locally, we have a [...]
One Woman and LA’s Free Health Care Program
New America Media, Video, Min Lee, text: Viji Sundaram, Posted: Jan 27, 2013 INGLEWOOD, Calif. – For years after she lost her job as a telephone operator in 1992, the only health care 57-year-old Nita Thompson received for the severe asthma she developed at the tail-end of her employment was through the kindness of friends and family members [...]
