ADVISORY/Health Care Coalition to Demand Protection of Vital Health Care Services.Assignment Editors and Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 13) --(BW HealthWire) Health Care Providers and Patients Will Call on Federal, State and County Officials to Resolve 1115 Waiver The voluntary surrender of a known right; conduct supporting an inference that a particular right has been relinquished. The term waiver is used in many legal contexts. and Preserve Health Care Services for All Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Residents The Health and Mental Health Coalition of Los Angeles will demand continued and expanded support for vital health care services for Los Angeles County residents, including access to critical preventive, primary and specialty outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples for hundreds of thousands of low income and uninsured men, women and children at a news conference Tuesday, June 13, at 9 a.m. in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . Health providers and patients will conduct a Pilgrimage pilgrimage Journey to a shrine or other sacred place undertaken to gain divine aid, as an act of thanksgiving or penance, or to demonstrate devotion. Medieval Christian pilgrims stayed at hospices set up specifically for pilgrims, and on their return trip they wore on their for the Uninsured by walking from the Clinic Monsignor Oscar Romero at 1135 W. Sixth St. in Downtown Los Angeles and join the news conference on the steps of the County Hall of Administration at 500 Temple St. Organized by the Health and Mental Health Coalition, the health advocates will call on county, state and federal officials to extend the 1115 Medicaid Waiver, which is set to expire June 30. The Waiver provides funding for health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract for low-income children and families. Without the Waiver, hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles County residents could be without access to vital health care services.
WHAT: Walk and News Conference to Demand Protection of Vital Health
Care Services
WHEN: Tuesday, June 13, 9 a.m.
WHERE: County Hall of Administration, 500 Temple St. (Health
providers and patients will start from Clinic Monsignor Oscar
Romero at 1135 W. Sixth St. in Downtown Los Angeles at 8 a.m.)
For more information on the march and news conference, or for information on the 1115 Waiver, contact John McDonald John McDonald may refer to:
Route information: Coalition members will begin their walk at Clinica Monsignor Oscar Romero. The route will follow 6th Street to Figueroa, left to Temple and East up to the Hall of Administration. |
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