L.A. Health Care Providers Join Local Effort To Provide Skid Row Residents With Necessary Care

On Wednesday, a team of medical, mental health and social service workers walked around Los Angeles' skid row providing care to low-income residents. The effort was part of a $3.7 million city-county program called Operation Healthy Streets, which launched Aug. 4 and aims to get skid row residents into medical care, rehab or other needed programs.

• "Physician Joins Skid Row Cleanup To Get Homeless Off the Streets" (Holland, Los Angeles Times, 8/13).