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Sudden Cardiac Arrest Took Local Mom’s Life – An Emergency Medical Team Brought Her Back

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ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, is a medical procedure for critical care patients with life-threatening heart or lung failure. Last July, the County launched a new pilot program that uses ECMO in a new way. It is now saving the lives of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital and who would have otherwise died.

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County to Offer Mpox Vaccines and other Services at Pride Festival

| 8:25 AM

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Pride festival goers can get Mpox vaccines, chill out in the senior cool zone and wave hello to County Library workers as they are honored as grand marshals during the annual Pride Parade this weekend.  

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VIDEO: County Completes Phase Two of Probation’s Youth Transition Campus

| 6:19 PM

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County leaders were joined by community partners to celebrate the completion of phase two of the new Youth Transition Campus in Kearny Mesa.

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County Breaks Ground on East County Crisis Stabilization Unit

| 3:29 PM

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The County of San Diego and partner agencies broke ground on the region’s seventh Crisis Stabilization Unit Thursday. The “CSUs” are designed to give many people who are in the midst of a behavioral health crisis a calm and better place to become stable and recover than emergency rooms, hospitals or jails.