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The plan calls for daily outreach by the engagement team in downtown Modesto, where team members will try to build relationships with the homeless people and craft intervention plans to connect them with mental health or substance abuse treatment, housing and other services.
Local Taxes On Sodas May Be Banned If Eleventh-Hour Business-Labor Deal Goes Through
Existing soda bans would be grandfathered in, but under the agreement cities and counties would be barred through the end of 2030 from enacting new taxes on groceries including beverages.
State Has Improved Access To Palliative Care But There’s Still Room To Get Better, Doctors Say
Meanwhile, palliative care has been shown to be an effective treatment model, so why aren’t more patients receiving it?
“When you have hundreds of people who either didn’t report it, or slowly reported it to only fall on deaf ears, it just speaks to a very broken system in medicine,” said Dr. Sheryl Ross, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Santa Monica.
Unscrupulous actors stand to make a lot of profit in the treatment industry, which has very little regulation. California lawmakers are trying to change that.
There’s little chance that any mentions are going to break though the cable news cycle that tends to focus on the latest stories coming out of the administration. So, the candidates are going to have to pay for their airtime. Meanwhile, polling data shows that Republicans are on the hook with voters when it comes to high premiums.
Separation Policy May Be Over, But The Psychological Trauma Isn’t, Mental Health Experts Warn
There are no clear plans to reunite the migrant children who were separated from their parents, and mental health experts say that continued stress is bound to take a psychological toll. “People have been very focused on technical pieces of this process, and the egregiousness of children in cages,” said Jennifer Rodriguez, executive director of the Youth Law Center, an advocacy group based in San Francisco and focused on protecting the rights of children. “But they’re not thinking about most basic fundamental trauma we’re inflicting on people.”
Details Emerge In Case Against Senior Care Home That Burned To Ground
After a wildfire destroyed the Villa Capri center, 17 residents and family members are accusing Oakmont Senior Living, the company that operated the center, and its affiliates of negligence and abandonment of residents that night.
Family And Friends Raise Awareness Of Toll That Fight Against Alzheimer’s Takes
The Longest Day is an event held on the Solstice to raise money and acknowledge the challenges faced by those with Alzheimer’s and their caretakers.
Lawsuit Against USC Balloons As More Former Students Join
The university could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in the case. The suit by from former patients of Dr. George Tyndall alleges that the university failed to heed warnings about the gynecologist’s behavior.