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The County of San Diego is committed to removing barriers and making support services accessible to everyone, especially at-risk populations. Community Pop-up Resource Events are proving to be very effective in bringing support directly to the people who are eligible.
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The County’s Tuberculosis Control Program is working in close collaboration with Grossmont Union High School District to notify students, staff and volunteers potentially exposed to tuberculosis (TB) during the second semester of the 2023-24 school year at Mount Miguel High School.
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The County has two Live Well on Wheels buses (Live WoW) that visit local communities and provide residents with easy access to a wide range of County health and community services right in their own neighborhood.
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County Behavioral Health Services has been awarded $12.4 million in state funding for bridge housing. The funds will be used to create 49 new recuperative care beds for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a behavioral health condition.
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County health officials are reminding parents and guardians to put vaccines on their child’s back-to-school list.
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County Vector Control crews plan to hand-spray a neighborhood in the Mt. Hope area this week to keep mosquitoes from potentially spreading the dengue virus after mosquitoes were found near a person who contracted dengue outside the U.S.
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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.
