Part Three of The Mercury’s Pulse Check series explores how reduction of Ryan White funding could mean increased spread of the disease and new challenges for those living with it.
Community & Public Health
Rural EMS services often have long response times, chronic underfunding, staff turnover, and high mental health strains, leaving communities with limited access to timely, life-saving emergency care.
Two disaster experts and an investigative journalist share reporting strategies for covering disasters and their aftermath as federal support recedes.
After being evicted from her Housing Choice voucher apartment more than a year ago, Tytinisha Mitchell, a 26-year old pregnant mother with a young child drifted in and out of the homes of friends and acquaintances, before living in her car for several months. The experience left a physical toll on her. She was hospitalized once for high blood pressure and later developed pre-eclampsia, a condition marked by dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy. Affordable housing options for people like Mitchell are critical, say housing advocates.
For Vietnamese seniors living in a mobile home park in Santa Ana, limited English proficiency make navigating leases, code enforcement, or eviction notices difficult to understand. They teeter on the edge of eviction for failure to comply with the numerous demands from the management.
As UCSF faces a hiring freeze, Spanish-language medical interpreters say severe short-staffing is jeopardizing patient care for immigrant families.
The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis
Overdose in America: analysis reveals deaths rising in some regions even as US sees national decline
A new Guardian analysis finds wide geographical disparities in fatalities linked to the public health crisis.
Due to the continuing government shutdown, SNAP (CalFresh) benefits will be halted for more than 270,000 Sacramento county residents who depend on the monthly aid to buy food. With no timeline for when the shutdown will end, local officials warn of a growing food crisis that could worsen poverty, strain the local economy, and push more residents toward homelessness.
Leonard Dixon has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — one of the largest youth jails in the country — for a decade. Records and interviews suggest he might not live in Chicago and is rarely seen at the facility.