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Posts Tagged ‘community health’

Richmond’s unhoused are uniting to fight illegal dumping

By Sasha Hupka | October 5, 2020
Sean Thomas carries an abandoned bucket to trash cans set up outside the encampment where he lives in Richmond. Thomas is one of several employees working on SOS! Richmond’s Streets Team, and said police officers told him they have “noticed improvement” since the group started operating in the area. Credit: Sasha Hupka/Richmond Confidential

Richmond is notorious for illegal dumping and litter, a decades-long problem driven by private and commercial interests looking for places to offload their trash for free. A group of unhoused people are working to tackle the problem while creating better living spaces at local encampments.

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Richmond health centers facing big cuts from Congress

By Alex Matthews | October 11, 2017
Laura Echavarria, a medical assistant at LifeLong Medical Care’s Brookside Richmond clinic, cleans an exam room on Oct. 10. LifeLong’s three medical clinics are among the safety-net providers that are preparing for a major loss of federal funding if Congress does not act.

Congress missed its September 30 deadline to extend funding for community health centers. Now Richmond health centers are bracing for the worst, while advocates scramble for another solution.

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Sexually transmitted diseases on the rise in Contra Costa County

By Leah Rosenbaum | November 18, 2016
Graph by Leah Rosenbaum.

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, are on the rise in Contra Costa County according to new data from Contra Costa Health Services.

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New health center named for beloved Richmond pediatrician

By Leah Rosenbaum | October 20, 2016 | 4
Richmond Mayor Tom Butt cuts the ribbon at the center opening. Mayor Butt is surrounded by Lifelong board members, district supervisor John Gioia, and members of the Jenkins family. Photo by Leah Rosenbaum.

Passionate, strict, dedicated and humble were a few of the words used to describe the late Dr. William Jenkins at the opening of a new health center named for him.

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