12 Stories
by Vanessa Poster Board Member, Beach Cities Health District I pray every night. I begin with a list of things I’m grateful for, and there is so much. One thing I am very grateful for is the freedom I enjoy as an American. And then, at other times, in conversation with my husband, we talk […]
by Garth Meyer A Gallup poll commissioned by Beach Cities Health District shows that residents of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach are estimated to spend $182 million less on annual healthcare costs because of lower rates of obesity, diabetes and smoking, compared to nationwide. The three cities’ residents spend an estimated $95 million […]
by Kevin Cody A $30 million bond measure to fund demolition of the long closed South Bay Hospital, and replace it with two acres of public open space for exercise and gatherings, and to construct a new allcove (all lower case) youth mental health center was unanimously approved by the Beach Cities Health District Board […]
by Garth Meyer The Beach Cities Health District board will vote July 24 on whether to seek voter approval for a $30 million bond to tear down the old South Bay Hospital, and fund other items on the District’s Redondo Beach campus. The “BCHD Community Health & Wellness Measure” would pay for destruction and removal […]
BCHD distributes Naloxone, trains school administrators and students Representatives of Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) went to Redondo Union High School May 20-21 to speak to 786 juniors and seniors about fentanyl and how to administer Naloxone, the medication which can reverse a fentanyl overdose. BCHD earlier gave training to 565 teachers, administrators and staff […]
by Garth Meyer The Beach Cities Health District’s proposed Healthy Living Campus could be stopped from ever being built because of a provision in the Redondo Beach draft General Plan update. The item, known as Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.), determines how many square feet may be built on public land. The General Plan draft was […]