Whether it is a matter of medical research, food and drugs, contagious diseases, or the delivery of health care, the Public Health service plays a significant role. How the Public Health service became what it is today is really the story of Public Health in america, a story that is still unfolding. Throughout the years, the has beenealth service in the corridors of power in washington. Todays public agencies are challenged by an everchanging. Orld and they respond the centers for Disease Control and prevention protect citizens from infectious and nonInfectious Diseases. Theadministration supports training of Health Professionals and sends them to underserved areas. The National Institutes of health conduct basic research on diseases such as aids. The fda brings new drugs to the public. The Substance Abuse and mental Health Services administration provide services for mental, behavioral, andy dick disorders. The healthrelated concerns connected with and other responsibility for toxic s
Implement the revised medical screening proceediers, and the improper expenditure of emergency funds appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december, two children died in custody. A sevenyearold girl named jacqueline and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year another three children died in custody or shortly after being released. On january 4th, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents relating to the deaths in 2018. After they failed to produce all documents responsive and in november and they keep my of the communicating requested in my letter ten months prior. The expecter Generals Office issued two one page sum mum rars. But the questions were left with more questions than answers. Earlier this year i sent a l letter to the expecter general. My entire letter is available on the committees wps. Among the concerns i raised were the following. They say there was no malfeasance or misconduct by dhs personnel. It was unclear why t
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
The reason i wanted to give a more robust review of this item. Thank you. Any other comments or questions . Commissioner wallenberg . You essentially answered all of my questions in the sense of looking to potentially backfill what the projects might cost us the next few years. I guess id then put emphasis on 1819. Im sure the diligent staff and you are looking at it were working on it. What the best priorities would be. California department of ageing immediately reduced their operations budget, which pays for training and other things for that Hicap Program in order to move those dollars into what goes into the local aaas to try to reduce the impact of the federal cut, so theyre a partner in this, as well. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Thank you. Hearing none, thank you so much, michael. Excuse me, but i neglected to ask for the coordinating care longterm council report. Thank you. Hi. My name i
Hicap program does and what this update means from the California Department of ageing. Briefly, our Hicap Program, it stands for. [ inaudible ] its a medicare focus program, providing community education, one to one counseling and advocacy to Medicare Beneficiaries as well as people soon to be Medicare Beneficiaries. Services within that are explanation of medicare benefits, explanation of Health Care Insurance terminology, a review of insurances available to consumers such as medigap pals and medicare pals, health with claims and procedures, as well as counseling around longterm care insurance. I want to note that the work that the counselors does is just above and beyond education. Its also helping people make educated decisions about their services. They will work people around what their decisions are and help them make the best decisions related to medicare benefits. We subcontract or funds to selfhelp for the elderly who administers hicap. They then serve the community through t