PREV. COVERAGE: The LA City Council unanimously approved $1 million to fund and create the Office of Unarmed Response and Safety, which council members said is necessary to expand the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis hotline to include an unarmed crisis response. LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Kar...
therefore encompassed in this definition – it can mean a patrol office stopping (or “detaining”) someone on the street to ask questions, a police car putting on lights and sirens to pull someone over, or law enforcement arriving at a home with a lone person in crisis barricaded inside. ...
Although this blood culture bottle shortage is a crisis many are facing, implementing diagnostic stewardship for blood culture collection may have overall benefits such as decreasing the amount of unnecessary testing, treatment of clinically insignificant infections, unnecessary blood draws, and potential ce...
Update: Although this bill was stalled, The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced it will invest$20 million in California’s networkof emergency call centers to support the launch of a new 988 hotline, an alternative to 911 for people seeking help during a mental health crisis....
“Her audience has such an expectation for her to do the complete opposite” of what she did, says Erik Bernstein, vice president of Monrovia-based Bernstein Crisis Management. “For her to represent a powerful man who was alleged to have mistreated women was, I’m sure, a shock and left...
Suicide prevention and crisis counseling resources If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counse...
Suicide prevention and crisis counseling resources If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counse...
“Her audience has such an expectation for her to do the complete opposite” of what she did, says Erik Bernstein, vice president of Monrovia-based Bernstein Crisis Management. “For her to represent a powerful man who was alleged to have mistreated women was, I’m sure, a shock and left...
As a result, Fenton said, many of the patients were later forced to use more expensive emergency and crisis intervention services. Advertisement Voters approved Proposition 187 in November 1994. But most of its key provisions, including those barring illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-supported...
Fleiss, who said he could be “convinced either way” on whether HIV causes AIDS, has known the family since before Eliza Jane was born. In 2000, the county Department of Children and Family Services investigated Maggiore and Scovill after a tipster complained that Charlie was in danger because...