Governor Newsom Announces California Health Corps, a Major Initiative to Expand Health Care Workforce to Fight COVID-19
Press release from California Governor Gavin Newsom:
Governor Gavin Newsom today launched a major new initiative to expand California’s health care workforce and recruit health care professionals to address the COVID-19 surge. Health care professionals with an active license, public health professionals, medical retirees, medical and nursing students, or members of medical disaster response teams in California are all encouraged to join the new California Health Corps.
Interested medical and health care professionals are encouraged to visit healthcorps.ca.gov for more information and to register for the California Health Corps. Medical doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, behavioral health scientists, pharmacists, EMTs, medical and administrative assistants, as well as certified nursing assistants are encouraged to step up and meet this moment to help California respond to the outbreak.
The Governor also signed an executive order that will temporarily expand the health care workforce and allow health care facilities to staff at least an additional 50,000 hospital beds the state needs to treat COVID-19 patients. A copy of the Governor’s executive order can be found here, and the text of the order can be found here.
“California’s health care workers are the heroes of this moment, serving on the front lines in the fight against this disease. To treat the rising number of patients with COVID-19, our state needs more workers in the health care field to join the fight. If you have a background in health care, we need your help. Sign up at healthcorps.ca.gov,” said Governor Newsom.
“Outreach to unemployed health care workers and under-employed foreign medical graduates will help build the workforce needed to fight the pandemic — and also create new opportunities and jobs for Californians struggling with unemployment,” said California Labor Secretary Julie A. Su.
“California must continue to prepare our health care delivery system and make sure it has every resource to respond to a potential surge in COVID-19 patients. California’s most valuable resource is its people and I join the Governor in calling on all medical professionals to join the fight against COVID-19,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly.
More ways for Californians to support their communities and request assistance are outlined on the California Volunteers website serve.ca.gov. For more information on the state’s response to COVID-19, visit covid19.ca.gov.
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Too soon to ask older medical personnel to come out of retirement with being so vulnerable themselves. Now if they wanted to set up a system for consultations by phone or FaceTime so ordinary business can be done by them to relieve stress on others…
Likely that officials will not subject 55+ to exposure.
The older and at risk doctors can work at the Navy Ship, where no Covid treatment will be available.
Or in other capacities than directly treating Covid patients.
Is Gav getting haircuts still, cuz I’m not.
How can anyone tell with so much hair grease?
I see. No training for unemployed people to join health care profession. Just find jobs for those already working or trained. Got it. The rest of you stay unemployed in your homes. Typical short-sighted and narrow minded liberal response.
The time scale involved is not sufficient to provide people with training.
I saw a article on how college students in nursing programs who were as little as 6 weeks away from graduation now are stuck in limbo as college classes are cancelled. Seems like a huge mistake. I hope this helps them out, especially since they want to work, are skilled to work, are desperately needed, and are stuck due to a technicality.
And I saw several articles on schools graduating med students early so they could help with the fight.
Johnny Eureka — Narrow minded liberal response? As opposed to a conservative call-it-a-hoax response, or what exactly are you trying to say? There is no time for training new health care workers for this pandemic, but it is a good idea to open up training programs, for sure, for the future.
But certainly you were not auggesting that a conservative, non liberal response would be something as enlightened and broad minded as a quick emergency response training program? When have conservative agendas ever proposed job training programs or anything at all to help other than Wall Street ?
I did not know ol crooked Hillary was a conservative. Sometimes libs can be soooo intelligent.
Blame trump for not putting lock down on nation soon enough. News now…. blame trump for putting nation on lockdown for another 30 days. Guy can never win, from day one till now.
Yeah because you can become a nurse in just 2 short weeks.
Great idea! I didn’t see anything about making sure the people stepping up will be provided with proper personal protection equipment tho. If I were a health professional, that assurance or lack thereof would make all the difference in my decision to join or not.
Louisiana is saved. Yesterday they held church with over 1200 folks justa praying there asses off I’m hoping they’re all last in line at the emergency rooms That way they’ll get to heaven sooner than the rest of us humans
Megachurch pastor arrested for being a dumbfuck.
https://wwl.radio.com/articles/radiocom/megachurch-pastor-arrested-for-service-during-coronavirus
Ancillary Health Care professionals over 65 salute the efforts Mr Newsom has made.
Finally, an employer willing to hire Senior Citizens!
My main question: If these facilities can be cobbled together this quickly, why can the homeless not be housed by a similar process?
Because turmup isn’t afraid of catching homelessness only covid
Here’s what my 15 years of working with this population taught me. Most homeless DON’T WANT HOUSING. There is a small percentage who do, but the majority don’t want ANY responsibility. They want only to be free to do whatever they want. Unfortunately, whatever they want is generally drug or crime related. The rest want to be left alone to move around as they please without anyone telling them where they can go or what they can do.
Even the few who aren’t involved in criminal or illegal activities are messy. They leave a trail of garbage wherever they choose to “camp.” They go through trash looking for recycling, but seldom put the trash back in the can before they move on. Back when they were provided a legal space to camp on a rotation between three locations, they ruined the porta potties, left literally tonnage of trash, and crime was so bad fence companies couldn’t build security Fences fast enough around affected businesses. (Yes I spoke to the fence contractors at the time).
Mental health professionals say all this is because of mental illness. Mental health problems or not, common decency is a choice these people refuse to choose. Even those on their medications choose the mess.
Even with a City ordinance in Eureka banning panhandling in most locations they boldly fly their signs with seemingly no consequence. The City Council, the Board of Supervisors, the DHHS – all branches, and all other government branches don’t have answers. The Court system says we have to allow this kind of behavior all under the guise of “sleep deprivation .”
I am tired of excuses. We have a huge problem and dodging reality is not the way to a solution.
That no panhandling ordinance got repealed about 2 months ago. That’s why lots of people are out with signs again..
How many volunteer hours have you spent helping the homeless? How much personal money have you spent trying to buy supplies for the homeless? In my case it’s many thousands. Yes, I made a living working for these people. On top of that I had my own volunteer services trying to make them more comfortable. Therefore I believe I have a lot more compassion than your judgment will ever have.
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Kym,
If you allow North West to say what he did, but edit my response using the same exact words he used, it is not conducive to a fair commentary. It reduces my faith in this site and it’s format being open to all opinions. Hopefully you will go back and edit his ball licking comment.
Bullshit.
You see that’s where you’re confused, you wrote trump, what you meant to say was Neswom. It’s a easy mistake to make.
Yeah, let’s lay off Trump. At least he’s not golfing. Oh that’s right, Marlago is quarantined.
You’re confusing Trump with Bath House Barry. He’s not the president anymore.
HOMELESS SOLUTION FOR HUMBOLDT- put up LONG HOOPS, with Tents, 6-10 ft apart. FIELD HOSPITAL STYLE!In SoHum, the land behind the “new” hospital is ideal. It’s close to services & food. We all know that ALL THE SAFEGUARDS WE HAVE WILL BE FOR NAUGHT IF WE DONT INCLUDE SAFEGUARDS FOR OUR HOMELESS! Contact thePLANNING DEPT& especially JOHN FORD! If they can harass small time locals@ weed, they can put up hoops for the homelessness!!
RALLY TIME for SAFETY
This interview is a must listen!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw
Stanford doctor implying that covid 19 is as lethal as the seasonal flu.
Let’s use some common sense instead of buying into the media panic.