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  • Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

    Stephanie O'Neill Emily Kwong

    August 02, 2022 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade wants to place wild horses in select wilderness areas of California to graze as a way to prevent wildfires.

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  • The Pandemic Proved Hospitals Can Deliver Care To Seriously Ill Patients At Home

    Stephanie O'Neill

    May 20, 2021 |

    Kaiser Health News |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    To reduce the overcrowding of hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic, some hospitals in California introduced the practice of at-home hospital care. Although not available to every patient, for those where this model of care has worked, studies suggest it can provide "better outcomes for patients and costs less to provide than traditional inpatient care."

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  • House-Bound RV Owners Loan Their Idle Vehicles To Frontline Workers In Need

    Stephanie O'Neill

    May 27, 2020 |

    LAist |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A chance encounter sparked by a Facebook post led to the creation of RVs 4 MDs, a Facebook group pairing donated recreational vehicles for front-line medical workers who needed to distance themselves from their families while still living at home. Created in late March, the group in its first two months matched 1,460 workers with donated temporary housing. The arrangements can be awkward, with parents camped out in the family home's driveway, unable to have physical contact with their children. But they have enabled medical workers to stay connected with their families at no cost.

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  • Using paramedics to help hospice patients avoid unwanted care

    Stephanie O'Neill

    December 10, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Ventura, California

    A hospice patient's end-of-life desires are most often thwarted when well-meaning loved ones see the patient in some sort of distress. New programs ask first-responder paramedics to work with hospice programs to better honor a person’s end-of-life wishes.

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  • LA Sheriff plans dramatic expansion of mental health policing

    Stephanie O'Neill

    July 23, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The struggle of police in properly dealing with mentally ill citizens has been highlighted in recent news. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department plans to dramatically beef up its mental health policing capabilities, according to a newly-released report that provides a county-wide roadmap for county law enforcement's handling of suspects experiencing a mental health crisis.

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  • Police and the mentally ill: LAPD praised as a model for nation

    Stephanie O'Neill

    March 09, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    LAPD's special team, the Mental Evaluation Unit, is teaming up police officers with mental health clinicians to better approach and address individuals suffering from a mental health crisis. Rather than sending them to jail - where resources are limited and a vicious cycle often results - the teams help ensure patients get the medical care they need, preventing brushes with the law and county millions of dollars and freed up thousands of hours of patrol time. Their model is being replicated nation-wide.

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  • Riverside Med Center drastically cuts infection rates

    Stephanie O'Neill

    January 31, 2014 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pasadena, California

    Infection rates - once kept private by hospitals - are now public record in 32 states, California included. This new transparency - coupled with Medicare now docking payments to hospitals that don’t meet quality measures - is prompting innovation at many hospitals with high infection rates.

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