Housing

VIDEO: Casa Anita Offers a Place to Call Home for People Experiencing Homelessness

| 10:00 AM

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe County is celebrating another grand opening of an affordable housing development, this time in Chula Vista. The Casa Anita Apartments have 96 new units dedicated to people and families experiencing homelessness including those diagnosed with a serious mental illness.

Health

County Urges Pregnant People to Get Tested, Treated to Protect Unborn from Congenital Syphilis

| 8:44 AM

Reading Time: 3 minutesFederal, state, and county health officials are urging pregnant people to get blood tests and treatment if needed to keep them from infecting their unborn child with a dangerous, sometimes deadly, and almost completely preventable disease—syphilis.

Health
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Friday is World Tuberculosis Day, Get Tested, Be Safe

| 4:48 PM

Reading Time: 3 minutesCounty public health officials are encouraging at-risk San Diegans to get simple blood or skin tests to find out if they may unknowingly have a tuberculosis infection as the world observes World Tuberculosis Day Friday.

Veterans
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County Employees Honor Abandoned Veteran at Final Resting Place 

| 12:08 PM

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn average day for Tiffany Tsai usually includes some time spent leafing through case files at her desk in the County of San Diego’s Public Administrator’s Office. It is not every day that she is at Miramar National Cemetery accepting a folded flag for a three-time purple heart recipient, but on a recent late February morning that was exactly what she was doing.