Supervisors Vote to Build Health Clinic in Valley
A new outpatient health care clinic serving 30,000 patients a year will be built in the San Fernando Valley, the county Board of Supervisors has decided.
Officials envision the family center, to be built with $6.8 million from county’s $174 million in surplus funds, will help to relieve overworked facilities in the Valley. Its location has not yet been determined, but it probably will be between Sun Valley and Reseda.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said more than 250,000 Valley residents are uninsured, including more than 100,000 children, and families are being forced to seek questionable medical treatments. The Valley has only one comprehensive county clinic, which is in Van Nuys.
“Health care is my No. 1 priority as a supervisor, and the Valley has been shortchanged over the years,” Yaroslavsky said. “The demographic changes in the Valley have been dramatic, the number of people that are dependent on us for health care has increased, but the county’s response has not.”
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