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Rossmoor Woman’s Club took part in the GFWC Blanket Challenge to help make 2,201 blankets. The General Federation of Women’s Clubs has a long history of providing handmade baby blankets and hats for the March of Dimes Mission Health Baby program. Rossmoor Woman’s Club was able to donate 27 blankets and 60 quilts from the skilled quilters of Heart 2 Heart Quilts to three area hospitals: MemorialCare Miller’s Long Beach, MemorialCare Fountain Valley and Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. They were all very excited to receive the donations and share with their NICU families.
Heart 2 Heart Quilts is located at Grace First Presbyterian Church in Long Beach. Through the gift of quilting, Heart 2 Heart Quilters are able to provide children in need with a warm blessing. Contact the church office at (562) 420-3393 for more information.
Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley organized Friday's ceremony to pay respect to those lost during the pandemic. Nearly 5,100 tea lights will remain lit through Sunday.
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It’s Wednesday, May 12. I’m Carol Cormaci, bringing you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events.
Arguably the most pressing challenge of this past pandemic year has been for those who set healthcare policy, hand-in-hand with those who carry out programs associated with those policies, to fully inform the public of safe practices, vaccination offerings and resources that are available to them.
In Orange County, where the Latino population has been hit especially hard over the course of the COVID-19 crisis, outreach efforts have become critical.
My colleague Lilly Nguyen looked into a local program, a group of bilingual workers who are going door-to-door to connect lower-income families, many of them Latino, with services such as mental health or rental assistance, food resources and, more recently, to share information on COVID-19 and how to get the vaccines if they’re interested.
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Employees rallied outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital & Medical Center Thursday to demand better wages and benefits for essential workers who fed, cleaned up after and sat with COVID-19 patients during the pandemic but say they can barely afford their own healthcare.
More than 100 people turned out at the Fountain Valley facility managed by Tenet Healthcare to draw attention to the fact that, while nurses were granted hazard pay and executives received COVID-19 bonuses, many employees working in high-risk scenarios for much lower salaries received no such extra compensation.
“I was working in the ICU every day,” said Eunice Zamorano, an environmental services (EVS) employee who cleaned rooms where coronavirus patients had been treated, with only gloves and a surgical mask for protection. “It was a very scary time. [But] we didn’t get an extra pay due to COVID.”