California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years, official says
Los Angeles Times, By Soumya Karlamangla, October 5th, 2017 Read on the LA Times website California’s outbreak of hepatitis A, already the nation’s second largest in the last 20 years, could continue for many months, even years, health officials said Thursday. At least 569 people have been infected and 17 have died of the virus since November in […]
AARS Santa Clara County named one of the Healthiest Employers of the Bay Area 2017
Asian American Recovery Services, Santa Clara County was ranked number nine in the small category in the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers of the Bay Area 2017 awards. Learn more about the awards from the San Francisco Business Journal: “More and more companies are making employee wellness a priority. Employees spend a […]
50,000 Square Feet of Integrated Care
SF Weekly, by Nuala Sawyer, Aug 30th, 2017 Read on the SF Weekly website S.F.’s low-income residents can now access everything from dental treatment to computer classes at a new center on Mission and South Van Ness. David had served 26 years of a life sentence in Folsom State Prison when he was released on parole in […]
California’s First Integrated Health Care Center for Low-Income and Homeless People Opens in San Francisco
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 29, 2017 MEDIA CONTACTIvan Becerra415.392.1000ibecerra@finemanpr.com Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee join HealthRIGHT 360in celebrating expansion of health and social services SAN FRANCISCO – HealthRIGHT 360 today opened the doors to its new Integrated Care Center (ICC) in San Francisco – the first medical center of its kind in California. The […]
New Clinic Offers One-Stop Health Services To Homeless, Low-Income Residents
SF Gate, By Bay City New Service, August 29th Read on the SF Gate website SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) A new health clinic opened in the heart of San Francisco today offering one-stop services for homeless and low-income residents ranging from medical and dental care to help with jobs, housing and education. The nonprofit Healthright 360 […]
Your Call: The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic 50 years later
KALW Radio, By Rose Aguilar & Sana Saleem, August 15, 2017 Read and listen on the KALW website Dr Smith at the Muir Wood Adolescent & Family services in marinKARL MONDON / BAY AREA NEWS GROUP In 1967, during a public health meeting at UCSF, Dr. David Smith declared that health care is a right, not a […]
Half-century After “Summer of Love,” Free Clinics Still Play Vital Role
JAMA, by Rita Rubin, August 15, 2017 Read on the JAMA website Growing up in Bakersfield, California, in the 1950s, the grandson of Oklahoma farmworkers, David Smith, MD, had never envisioned himself as an activist. But in 1967, when Smith lived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and worked as a clinical toxicology postdoc, the growing counter-culture revolution […]
Researchers Want to Know Why Anti-Opioid Drug Is Being Underused
Healthline, by Shawn Radcliffe on August 9, 2017 Read on the Healthline website Barriers still exist in getting primary care physicians to treat patients with opioid addiction during office visits. With millions of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder, many tools are needed to tackle the opioid epidemic. But these tools can only help if […]
Construction on our new Integrated Care Center is complete
Services to begin later this summer The paint is dried, the floors are polished, and we received the Certificate of Final Occupancy which means… we can move in! In preparation for our big move and opening, staff is starting to box up the contents of their offices. Furniture from our warehouse that held two years’ […]
Gender Recognition Act crucial for nonbinary identification
San Francisco Examiner, by Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, June 20, 2017 Read on the San Francisco Examiner website Thousands of Californians see their gender misrepresented on state-issued identification cards every day. A bill overwhelmingly passed by the state Senate can start righting this wrong. If passed by the Assembly, Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act, […]
SF homeless count reveals impact of programs for youths, adults
San Francisco Chronicle, by Kevin Fagan, June 17, 2017 Read on the San Francisco Chronicle website Spackled into last week’s 80-page report detailing San Francisco’s latest homeless count were two big revelations: While the number of homeless youths plummeted 40 percent, the population of severely troubled homeless adults shot up 31 percent. What the statistics show, […]
San Francisco’s Haight celebrates Summer of Love at Haight Ashbury Street Fair
SFGATE, by Peter Hockaday, June 11, 2017 Read on the SFGATE website This year’s Haight Ashbury Street Fair had an extra dose of hippie. The 40th anniversary of the street fair was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Among the usual street-fair staples of barbecue, t-shirt vendors and drumming, […]
