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What is more important than health? Nothing, says the California Assn. of School Health Educators.
May 12, 1985
California
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to move toward consolidating three departments dealing with different aspects of public health.
Jan. 13, 2015
Public health officials are asking for more money in California’s state budget. But unlike some rich and powerful health care interests, they don’t have an army of lobbyists to curry favor with lawmakers.
June 15, 2020
Seeking to avert a cash-flow crisis, Los Angeles County will ask the state to accelerate as much as $1 billion in health care payments, Chief Administrative Officer Sally Reed said Monday, as officials released a list of clinics that will close Oct. 1.
Aug. 8, 1995
World & Nation
The nation’s public health system is in “disarray” and major public health responsibilities--from fighting critical epidemics such as AIDS to keeping drinking water safe--”have become so fragmented that deliberate action . . . is often difficult, if not impossible,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute of Medicine.
Sept. 8, 1988
A prominent feature of health-care reform proposals now in Congress would forbid the kind of efficient, economical and medically effective balancing of resources that have been developed by the best-organized health-care delivery systems in California.
May 9, 1994
Business
Foundation Health to Acquire Managed Health Network: In a stock swap valued at about $45 million, Foundation Health Corp. of Rancho Cordova, Calif., said it signed an agreement to buy closely held Managed Health Network Inc. of Los Angeles.
Jan. 19, 1996
Staffing for labs that provide critical testing are a concern, as public health departments lose experienced staffers to exhaustion and partisan politics.
Nov. 1, 2021
Since the passage of Proposition BB, the Los Angeles Unified School District has been planning hundreds of improvements at its schools.
April 27, 1997
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to consolidate three sprawling health agencies under a single director.
Aug. 11, 2015