School-Based Health Centers Would Provide Primary Care Services To Fresno Area
The school districts will not have to pay for the clinics. Instead, the money will come from federal funding and health care providers.
Fresno Bee:
Fresno Unified To Add Medical Centers To Schools
Fresno Unified School District hopes to create at least 10 school-based health centers, which would be built in areas of the city that have the least access to health care. The public clinics would be modeled on Gaston Middle School’s Health and Wellness Center, which opened last year. The center provides primary care services such as physicals, immunizations and behavioral health services, and is open five days a week. (Mays, 11/4)
In other news from across the state —
East Bay Times:
Alameda County Gets $140 Million Grant To Help Homeless
Alameda County is working to make this dream a reality through an innovative state-funded program called the Whole Person Care Pilot. The Alameda County Health Care Agency was recently awarded a $140 million grant over five years to help achieve better health outcomes for a particular population of high users of Medi-Cal health services whose needs often cross the boundaries of different health and social service agencies. The idea is to create a more holistic approach to treating patients by creating a data-sharing system between the various fragmented county health agencies and service providers. If things go according to plan, the Medi-Cal costs resulting from avoidable repeat emergency room visits and hospitalizations would go way down and people would be healthier. (Drummond, 11/4)
Fresno Bee:
Hepatitis A Risk From Strawberries At 2 Tulare County Restaurants
A voluntary national recall of frozen Egyptian strawberries has been issued because of the possibility of hepatitis A contamination, and several restaurants in Tulare and Fresno counties have had to throw out the bad strawberries. So far, there are no reports to public health officials in the two counties that anyone has contracted the disease from the tainted strawberries. In Tulare County, Apple Annie’s restaurant in Tulare and Sanad Freeze restaurant in Earlimart got deliveries of the strawberries. In Fresno County, about 75 restaurants and 25 long-term care facilities and schools are on a list of entities that may have received the strawberries, although not all did get them, county health department officials said. (Griswold, 11/4)