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TOP STORY - JUNE 17, 2008
Norwalk Clinic Receives Funding To Provide For More Visits |
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The Norwalk Regional Health Center will be able to accept roughly 1,600 additional medical visits after the Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with JWCH Institute, Inc., Supervisor Don Knabe announced today.
The Norwalk clinic, which provides free and low-cost medical care and social services to the residents of the surrounding communities, will now be able to see over 1,500 more patients. These newly-funded visits will go primarily to uninsured or indigent adult patients that are not eligible for any publicly funded programs. According to the County’s Health Department, nearly 27,000 people in the City of Norwalk have no health care insurance.
“Health centers like the one in Norwalk are absolutely vital to the County’s healthcare system, and the more patients they can see the better,” said Supervisor Knabe. “A clinic visit is substantially more cost effective than a trip to the emergency room, and by making our clinics more accessible we are reducing the strain on a very fragile ER system.”
The $150,212 for the Norwalk clinic was part of a larger $2,075,708 Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program Health Care Services Agreement with JWCH. PPP agreements are critical to the healthcare safety net of the County and through private partners like JWCH they provide primary, specialty, and/or dental care to the indigent, low-income, uninsured patient population throughout Los Angeles County. The Norwalk Regional Health Center is located at 12360 Firestone Boulevard in the City of Norwalk.
Useful Norwalk Links
 City of Norwalk
Norwalk Chamber of Commerce
Cerritos College
Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District
Little Lake City School District
Alondra Library
Norwalk Regional Library
Norwalk Sheriff’s Station
Norwalk Courthouse |
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Supervisor Knabe presents a plaque to Norwalk Mayor Rick Ramirez at the City of Norwalk's 50th Anniversary Gala. |
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Contact:
Joe Matthews
Field
Deputy
12720 South Norwalk
Norwalk, CA 90650
jmatthews@lacbos.org
Tel: (562) 807-7350
Fax: (562) 929-9051 |
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Don Knabe. Working for Norwalk. Norwalk
Accomplishments |
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Preventing Graffiti Vandalism in Norwalk  Supervisor Knabe in partnership with Helpline Youth Counseling, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Cities of Downey, La Mirada, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, Whittier, and Unincorporated Whittier launched the Aware Teens Against Graffiti or A.T.A.G., which is an innovative delinquency prevention program that targets first time tagging and vandalism offenders between the ages of 9 to 15 and their parents. The weekend-long program focuses on the parents receiving an intensive two-day skill-building training, and the youth offenders participating in community service projects and group discussions while being supervised by law enforcement.
Working to Reduce Violence
Supervisor Knabe and the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce hosted the inaugural Southeast Summit on Youth & Violence. The purpose of this summit was to bring forth a conceptual framework for reducing violence in our communities. This framework will focus on a strategy that encourages cooperative, coordinated efforts among elected officials, law enforcement, educators, community organizations, outreach and intervention workers, health and mental health workers, faith based representatives, businesses, government agencies, and local nonprofits all working toward the common goal of reducing violence levels in neighborhoods and communities. |
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New Funding for Park Projects
Supervisor Knabe dedicated $1.7 million in Proposition A Park funds to be used for various projects across the Fourth District. In Norwalk, a portion of the money will be used for the planting of 500 trees in residential neighborhoods, parkways, arterial medians and along boulevards.
Boosting Services at the Norwalk Regional Health Services
Supervisor Knabe joined local health leaders to christen the new “S. Mark Taper Foundation Building” at the Norwalk Regional Health Center and celebrate the Foundation’s $300,000 gift that will help boost health care services at the facility, which opened in February 2006.
Synchronizing Traffic in Local Cities
A new Traffic Signal Synchronization Project has been approved for the cities of Bellflower, Cerritos, La Mirada, Long Beach, Norwalk and Whittier. The project will synchronize 35 traffic signals on Artesia Boulevard between Alameda Street and Valley View Avenue; 15 traffic signals on Central Avenue between El Segundo Boulevard and Victoria Street; and 36 traffic signals located on Whittier Boulevard between Paramount Boulevard and Valley Home Avenue. This project is part of the County’s ongoing program to enhance traffic flow and safety for drivers and pedestrians.
Establishing Reward for Murder of Norwalk Man
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $10,000 reward, at the request of Supervisor Knabe, for information related to the stabbing death of Norwalk resident, Manuel Marquez. |
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Reopened Norwalk Regional Health Center and formed information and referral service collaboration with County funded community based organizations in area.
Dedicated new Metro Express Bus Service, 577X service from the Long Beach Veterans Hospital to Norwalk Metro Green Line Station to El Monte Bus Station.
Supports various community-based organizations like: Friends of Norwalk Libraries. |
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Facilitated
donation of ambulance to Costa Rica with LA County
Firefighters group-Los Bomberos in Partnership with
AMR ambulance and the City of Norwalk.
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