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Supervisors Fund Local Health Care

Posted on: Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 09:01 CST

By FROM STAFF REPORTS

OAKLAND -- Alameda County supervisors on Tuesday allocated $160,000 in Measure A funds for greater Hayward area health care programs that will benefit everyone from tots to teenagers to senior citizens.

Measure A is the half-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2004 to fund county health care services.

Seventy-five per cent of the estimated $90 million to be raised each year goes to the Alameda County Medical Center's hospitals and clinics; the remaining 25 percent to community clinics, emergency services and mental health programs.

Dawn Valadez, development manager for San Leandro's Davis Street Family Resource Center, thanked supervisors for the $50,000 grant that will subsidize services for more than 1,000 uninsured and underinsured people who attend the center's acute care clinic.

Clinic services range from immunizations to direct treatment.

Other grants include: St. Rose Hospital, Hayward,

$50,000 to expand staff and services at the Silva Pediatric Clinic; Tiburcio Vasquez Medical Center, Union City, $15,000 for a part-time health educator at Hayward's Tennyson High School Health Center; and Spectrum Community Services, Hayward, $45,000 to provide risk reduction classes in Hayward, San Leandro, Ashland and Union City for people who are in danger of falling.

Source: Oakland Tribune

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