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Speemac. [background sounds] subcommittee on Oversight Committee will now here comes the order. It is hauling hearing in china and the public help emergencies, to curb the Opioid Crisis. The premise of todays hearing is to examine states efforts and successes and adjusting the Opioid Epidemics as well as opportunities for future federal support. And just to let everybody know, doctor alexander, the reason why we are Getting Started a little late. The plane was delayed. But now the dr. Is on our way. We will swear in the witnesses when we get to that. If we have to do that later we will. The. [...

You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than th...

Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many C...

Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 ...

Officials, such as assessor howard chu, and ta collector, ad norman yee and supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer, we are so excited to get this done together. Every 10 years the federal government puts together a census to count everyone and to make critical decisions about our future. Yet the hard work happens in our local communities right here on the ground. This time we know that it will be harder because the census is digital. And so we must bridge that digital divide. Some people discrust government, distrust government, so we must work with organizations such as the institute and sel...