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The County launched a new Aging Dashboard this week, providing the public and policymakers an interactive way to track key metrics impacting the region’s growing population of older adults.
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The County’s Love Your Heart campaign is celebrating 15 years of raising awareness of the silent dangers of heart disease. Since its launch in 2011, more than a half million people have received blood pressure screenings.
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The new County-funded Psychiatric Health Facility in Oceanside has completed its first month of operation, providing short-term inpatient psychiatric care a total of 31 people to date with 10 in care earlier this week.
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The new Ramona Community Resource Center celebrated its first year in its new location, serving as a one-stop place for County services like mental health, nutrition, and healthcare.
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Hundreds of San Diego County Employees woke up extra early this morning to participate in the annual Point-in-Time Count. During the one-day outreach event, volunteers walk and drive through local communities to engage with and collect data from people experiencing homelessness.
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San Diego County today confirmed 377 suicide deaths in 2024, a 3% increase in the suicide rate from the previous year. Overall, suicide rates are down 8% from 2016 and 4% from 2020.
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Enlisting the public’s help to identify a Jane Doe and find an animal abuse suspect; an Oscar-buzzy blockbuster filmed in San Diego County; what to know about hantavirus, coyotes and the federal government shutdown; and adding tiny homes on wheels to the County’s housing supply — those were among the most read stories on County News Center in 2025.
