The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) recently completed a pilot program that mentored young men and women of color to reach their full potential, while also recruiting a new – and more diverse – generation of law enforcement professionals.
Fanfare, excitement and colorful balloons greeted Crenshaw residents on Tuesday, Oct. 20 when administrators from Kaiser Permanente held a groundbreaking ceremony to announce that a new medical facility is scheduled to be constructed near the corner of Marlton Avenue and Santa Rosalia Drive by the spring of 2017.
The 18th L.A. Focus’ First Ladies High Tea held recently at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills was a grand affair. Over 1,000 attendees were blessed to witness a star-studded event as the women wore their Sunday Best Hats to top it all off. L.A. County Supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas received the Legacy Award. Celebrities and tastemakers in attendance or on the program included: Sheryl Lee Ralph; Ray Donovan & Instant Mom, Oscar Nominee Shug Avery; The Color Purple and Being Mary Jane, Edwina Finley-Dickerson and Heather Hemmens; If Loving You Is Wrong, Gaius Charles; Grey Anatomy & Aquarius, Wren
Mark Ridley-Thomas will and the Advocates Pro Tour rename the road that goes into Chester Washington Golf Course “Charlie Sifford Drive.”
The National Bar Association Board of Governors, Hyundai Motor America, and The Law firm of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt joined forces to honor legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray at a special reception on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Held at the law offices of Ivie, McNeil and Wyatt, Hyundai executives, National Bar Association Board members, and high profile elected officials gathered to celebrate Gray, one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders. The famed attorney, a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law is well-respected and seen as an icon in the civil rights movement, having represented Rosa Parks in 1954 after her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Chants of ‘a new day at MLK’ filled the air as thousands came together to celebrate the reopening of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Watts on Friday, Aug. 7.
The audience was full of California officials including Supervisor Mark Ridley – Thomas, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, California State Senator Isadore Hall, III, Congresswoman Janice Hahn, Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley – Thomas, Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson, Inglewood Mayor James Butts and Councilmember Curren Price to name a few. While the hospital has been opened since July 7, last Friday was a day used to celebrate everyone that made it possible.
Medell Briggs-Malonson, MD, MPH, MSHS, Medical Director of Quality and Stanley K. Frencher, Jr. MD, MPH, Director of Surgical Outcomes and Quality at the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) have been named two of the 2015 National Medical Association’s (NMA) Top Healthcare Professionals Under 40.
L.A. County is known for having the best trauma care systems in the world, with South L.A. alone making up 20 percent of trauma related death with a mortality rate of 3.6 percent. With the reopening of King Community Hospital this summer, medical leaders have high hopes these numbers continue to decrease.
Supervisor Ridley-Thomas joined by other medical leaders speak out about King hospital
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas celebrated the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital receiving the official seal of approval on June 30 The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare.
Supervisor Ridley-Thomas takes the wheel of Metro’s Multi-Billion Dollar Transportation System
Hoping to improve the medical services provided to jail inmates, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to shift the responsibility from the Sheriff’s Department to the Department of Health Services. The county currently allocates approximately $330 million and over 2,000 positions per year on health, mental health, and public health services to the roughly 17,500 inmates housed in county jails. Of this amount, $238 million and more than 1,700 budgeted positions are allocated to the Sheriff’s Medical Services Bureau (MSB). Los Angeles County is the only county in California in which the Sheriff’s Department runs its own
Parks After Dark (PAD), a multi-agency partnership led by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, returns with a full slate of free nighttime programming designed to provide young people and their families with healthy, safe and fun recreational opportunities. The extended park hours and special activities — which have been hallmarks of the award-winning, widely-acclaimed L.A. County initiative — are designed to facilitate new and positive experiences for young people while helping them avoid at-risk behaviors that have traditionally been considered leading factors in increased crime rates during the summer months. As part of the programming at