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NACCHO is governed by a 27-member Board of Directors composed of elected health officials, a representative for Tribal health departments, and ex officio members representing the National Association of Counties, of which NACCHO is an affiliate, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The Board of Directors meets four times per year.
Agencies that are responsible for state-level regulating, monitoring, managing, and protecting environmental and public health concerns. The exact duties of these agencies can vary widely and some are combined with or are part of a state's fish and wildlife management agency .
Health Services ran the free health care programs Healthy Way LA and My Health LA from 2007 until 2024, when eligibility and access to California's health care program, Medi-Cal, was expanded. [4] In Fiscal Year 2015–16, Health Services provided healthcare services to over 643,856 unique patients during 2,457,174 patient visits. [5]
On January 13, 2015, the Board of Supervisors by unanimous decision approved the concept of integrating all health departments: Department of Health Services (DHS), Mental Health (DMH), and Public Health (DPH) to create a unified health agency (Health Agency). It was later motioned by Michael D. Antonovich on August 11, 2015.
These services and others — including buying and governing health insurance plans for up to 180,000 state and local employees — will fall under the direction of the single Health Care Authority.
L.A. Care Health Plan (Local Initiative Health Authority for Los Angeles County) was created in 1997 by the State of California to provide health care services for Medi-Cal managed care beneficiaries, uninsured children and other vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County.
An exam room at a local community public health department in the United States. Local health departments play a central role in providing essential public health services in communities that fall into the following ten categories: [citation needed] Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems. Diagnose and investigate ...
Conducts and coordinates public health surveillance and epidemiologic studies to assist in defining, preventing, and controlling infectious diseases. Helps local health departments and community-based organizations plan, develop, implement, and improve prevention, control, care, treatment, and social support programs for infectious diseases.