At AltaMed Health Services Corporation, healthcare is going beyond just the physical. It has built an enviable Chicano art collection, which it displays at its clinics all around Southern California.
In a cluster of neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley including Van Nuys, Panorama City, Valley Glen, North Hollywood, Sun Valley, North Hills, Pacoima, and Arleta, one quarter of the population is uninsured.
At the border of three worldviews – native, colonial, and Anglo – medical care in Los Angeles by the 1850s blended empirical science, European and native folk traditions, and a large dose of medical hucksterism.
All pipelines leak eventually. When they do, living things downstream are in trouble.
Arden O'Connor grew up visiting coral reefs in the Caribbean. She had no idea that one animal there would save her life.
Is the state obligated to care for sick children regardless of immigration status?