Ventura County Sheriff’s reports inmate death
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. The Ventura County Sheriff s Office reported an inmate death in the County Jail Monday afternoon.
The inmate was identified as Steven Johnson, 37, from Ojai.
On Dec. 15 around 11:15 a.m., deputies at the Ventura County Jail reportedly found Johnson alone and unresponsive in his cell.
Deputies provided aid and called for the medical staff. Ventura City Fire and AMR also responded to the jail and transported Johnson to Ventura Community Memorial Hospital.
A few days later, Johnson was transferred to Ventura County Medical Center for additional care.
On Sunday at around 9:13 p.m, Johnson was pronounced dead by the hospital.
She was a builder of gardens, where not only plants could grow, but people, too.
As a landscape designer and founder of the nonprofit Giving Tree Project, Amber Beeson transformed vacant lots in Bakersfield into community gardens where adults could grow organic vegetables and children could learn about healthy living, healthy eating, and just plain old hard work.
Beeson, a former program director at Kern Green, chairwoman of the Community Gardens Committee for Keep Bakersfield Beautiful, and a onetime board member with the Arts Council of Kern, died Thursday after a grueling and very public battle with cancer. She was 40.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Hospitals in Ventura County are reaching capacity as COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket.
Dr. Mark Lepore who works in the Intensive Care Unit at Ventura County Medical Center he said the rising number of cases is being felt far and wide throughout the hospital.
“ERs are full, patients are waiting outside for us longer than we’d like them to,” Lepore said. “Once folks are needing hospitals they are often waiting in the emergency department, waiting for beds because there is no space for them.”
As of Thursday just over 4% of intensive care unit beds were still available. Lepore said it s taking a toll on health care workers.
ICUs in California drowning by coronavirus surge ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 04:37 IST
Los Angeles [US], December 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Unchecked Thanksgiving gatherings of friends and families across the Golden State result in an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases, with more to come, California health officials noted Tuesday, warning statewide intensive care units (ICUs) capacity is at only 5.7 percent.
California health officials reported an unprecedented 42,120 cases on Monday, six times higher than mid-October, breaking the single-day record set Dec. 8 when 35,400 coronavirus cases were recorded.
And on Tuesday, Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States, reported record levels of 11,194 new COVID cases a day and 86 confirmed deaths, the highest number since the summer surge.