where 240 doctors see patients for primary care and a number of specialties. But it also operates in less standard settings. Currently, two street medicine teams from Akido operate in Los Angeles andKern County, California, including the city of Bakersfieldwhere it helpedfund the const...
The county has tried at least twice before--in 1963 and 1975--to replace General Hospital because it does not meet air-quality or fire and safety codes, Fernandez said. Those efforts failed because the county could not come up with enough money on its own, she said. The current plan, a...
--The new umbrella program initiated by the Los Angeles County branch of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Assn. to increase the number of adult day-care centers willing to accept Alzheimer’s patients. The program provides funding for such needs as security guards or new fences to mak...
And while the number of burn beds has been dwindling, the need is increasing. The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development predicts that by the year 2000, Los Angeles County will require a minimum of 40 acute care beds, when the estimated population tops 9 million. The availability...