Sonoma, Marin Nonprofits Nab Grants For Health Care Access, Public Health Programs
Kaiser Permanente is awarding nearly $500,000 to groups in the counties.
The Press Democrat:
Kaiser Awards Grants To Local Sonoma And Marin Nonprofits
Kaiser Permanente has awarded nearly half a million dollars to local nonprofit groups in Marin and Sonoma counties that, among other things, promote improved health care access, healthy eating, active living, oral health, mental health and substance abuse services. Sonoma County based programs include Petaluma People Services Center’s Bounty Healthy Food Education program; La Luz Center’s Community Cares in Sonoma; the Northern California Center for Wellbeing’s Active Play Every Day program; and the Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese’s Uvisa program, which provides emergency assistance for immigrant victims. (Espinoza, 7/28)
In other news from across the state —
Modesto Bee:
Golden Valley Opens A Second Health Center In Ceres
Golden Valley Health Centers recently opened its second site in Ceres on Memorial Drive, featuring 12 medical exam rooms and six rooms for dental care. The center, costing $3 million for the purchase and renovation of its building, will enable the nonprofit health provider to serve 8,000 more patients. Golden Valley, which has clinics for the underserved in Merced and Stanislaus counties, showed off the 8,300-square-foot facility to dignitaries and guests during a grand opening Wednesday. (Carlson, 7/28)
LA Daily News:
This San Gabriel Boy Had A Rare Botfly Removed From His Head And Now Calls Himself ‘Bot-Man’
Last weekend, doctors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles pulled the developing bug out of Andrew’s head after his parents saw the larva pop out of a small hole it made in his scalp. Botfly larvae are internal parasites of mammals that burrow into the skin when their host insect, typically a mosquito, bites a mammal. The larvae feed on flesh, causing large bumps that secrete pus. People can sometimes feel the parasite squirming underneath the skin. (Baer, 7/28)
Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot:
Proposal Is Yet Another Chapter In Laguna Beach's Medical Marijuana Saga
An attorney representing authors of an initiative that would repeal Laguna Beach's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries has come up with a compromise. Instead of having competing measures on the November ballot — the city has reacted to the initiative with talk of coming up with its own proposal — Charnel James told the City Council on Tuesday of another option: work together. (Alderton, 7/28)