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‘Dr. Laguna’ was Instagram famous, but patients and colleagues …

WEBDr. Arian Mowlavi specialized in 'mommy makeover' plastic surgeries, but lawsuits allege he pressured patients into last-minute procedures and put their health at risk.

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20 Southern California hospitals make Newsweek’s list of world’s …

WEBTwenty Southern California hospitals have been named among the top 1,000 in the world, across 11 countries, in a list compiled for the first time by Newsweek in collaboration with Statista Inc., a global marketing research and consumer data company. Three of those area hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai …

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CalOptima board approves $1.6 million to start mobile medical …

WEBResponding to a surge in homeless deaths, the governing board of Orange County’s health care plan for its poor allocated $1.6 million on Friday, Feb. 22, to start a mobile medical team to treat homeless people at shelters and other places they congregate. The action came at a special meeting three days after U.S. District Judge

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Every driver license expires, even if yours says ‘END NONE’

WEBA. None. Most of us have such a license with that two-word phrase, no matter our age, wealth, community service or prominence at the local bowling alley. It can cause a bit of confusion, to be sure, as it is on the same line with the real expiration date, which is generally on one of our future birthdays. To state officials – and cops – it

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Whittier-based PIH Health acquires Pioneer Medical Group, with …

WEBPIH Health, a company based in Whittier, has acquired Pioneer Medical Group and all of its assets, including eight medical offices in the Long Beach area and 36,000 patients The nonprofit health care network, on Washington Boulevard, announced the acquisition Monday, July 1, effective the same day. The nonprofit will rebrand the eight …

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ER program for homeless patients in mental distress offers special …

WEBThe man came into the emergency room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange on a busy evening, in the throes of a full-blown panic attack. He was delirious and suicidal. Homeless at 60, he had a long history of Parkinson’s disease. But his main issue was the state of his mental health. He was fortunate

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Health spending on homeless people in Orange County will grow …

WEBThe rising number of homeless deaths in Orange County, coupled with the intervention of a federal court judge, will spur an extra $100 million in health care spending for homeless people over the next three years. A package of initiatives approved Thursday, April 4, by CalOptima, the county’s healthcare program for the poor, includes spending

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Senior Living: How we handle adversity determines our mental – …

WEBBy David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer Let’s experiment for a moment. Imagine society is divided between two types of people: those who painstakingly build mountains out of molehills and others who graciously transform lemons into lemonade. Obviously, these poles are extremes and most of us would fall somewhere in the middle. …

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PIH Health opens new urgent care center in La Habra

WEBPIH Health has opened another urgent care center, this one in La Habra at 1400 S. Harbor Blvd. The center will offer care for minor illnesses, such as earaches, persistent coughs or minor wounds that may need stitches. Sports physicals are also offered at this facility. The La Habra facility joins four other PIH Health

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Laguna Woods Village condo board appoints new directors

WEBLaguna Woods Third Mutual Board appointed two new members, former Village Management Services director Reza Karimi and community volunteer Annie McCary, to its ranks during a special, open meeting on Friday, Feb. 22. Two other candidates, Craig Wayne and Jim Tao, were also considered for seats. Karimi’s one …

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Orange County approves $16.6M for ‘first-of-its-kind’ mental …

WEBOrange County approved funding Tuesday for a first-of-its-kind mental health center and psychiatric emergency room, filling a void that has left mentally-ill patients in the county with inadequate treatment and burdened local hospitals. The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to allocate $16.6 million to the $40-million project, which …

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Orange County: Jail health care called inadequate, but some …

WEBCritics of Orange County’s jails fear that not enough action is being taken to improve health care in the wake of a series of recent watchdog reports that raised serious concerns about inmates’ well-being. A spate of deaths in the past two months — three inmates and fetus of another inmate who was just entering

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Protester’s climb shuts down Statue of Liberty on July 4th

WEBIn this image taken from video, people climb on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Wednesday, July 4, 2018. A person scaled the statue’s base and forced its evacuation shortly after several other people were arrested for hanging a banner from the pedestal that called for abolishing the Immigration and Customs …

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‘Solidarity forever’: Meet the ardent socialists throwing their …

WEBEvery day this week, Carly Towne, 25, has pulled herself out of bed in the morning dark to walk a 7 a.m. picket line at Venice High School for two hours before heading to work. The bespectacled staff member of left-wing activist organization Code Pink is not a teacher, a parent nor a former L.A.

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Los Angeles County: World’s largest jail system getting a health …

WEBThe first 72 hours after a person is booked into jail is when they’re at the highest risk of death, according to the director of health care for Los Angeles County’s jails. Alcohol withdrawal and drug overdoses can be fatal. Suicide is a major concern. Even people without life-threatening conditions must be properly evaluated. “Some of

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California lawmakers approve key changes to landmark mental …

WEBSacramento lawmakers approved changes to California’s landmark behavioral health law. The measure now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Sovereign Health tells workers they won’t be paid; closes California

WEBOne of the bigger addiction treatment providers in Southern California, Sovereign Health, is closing its doors amid financial difficulties and an ongoing investigation following allegations of insurance fraud. In a July 5 letter to employees Sovereign Chief Executive Tonmoy Sharma wrote, “While we attempted to secure funding to keep the …

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65 more families file lawsuit against Anaheim dental clinic on …

WEBIRVINE — Sixty-five families whose children were infected by rare bacteria when they underwent pulpotomies, or “baby root canals,” at an Anaheim clinic two years ago filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Jan. 16, naming the clinic, its operators, the company that installs and maintains water filtration systems, and several dentists. The lawsuit, which …

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Coronavirus patients confirmed in Los Angeles and Orange …

WEBTwo cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Southern California, one each in Los Angeles and Orange counties, bringing to five the number of cases across the U.S., health officials said Sunday, Jan. 26. All of the patients were people who traveled to the Chinese city of Wuhan, identified as the center of the outbreak. The

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Gov. Gavin Newsom talks homelessness with San Bernardino …

WEBGov. Gavin Newsom talks with formerly homeless individuals, service providers and local officials at the Arrowhead McKee Family Health Center in San Bernardino on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Michelle Padilla talks about her former homelessness during a round …

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Brea woman sentenced in multi-million dollar Medicare fraud …

WEBA Brea woman was sentenced Thursday to a year and one day in prison for her role in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme related to false billings for unnecessary services. Grace Hong, who was convicted in 2019 of three counts of healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit health fraud, also was.

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Man in pickup dies after crashing into bridge pillar

WEBA 28-year-old man died after crashing his pickup into a bridge pillar on the northbound 241 toll road Monday morning, the California Highway Patrol said. Jay Winters, from Anaheim, was driving his 2010 Chevrolet southbound on the 241 when he apparently struck a concrete pillar in the median just south of Bee Canyon at 11:17 a.m., authorities …

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