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Residents, clinicians urge Orange County to open Be Well campuses and save UCI FOCUS program; supervisors press for 'keys' to county facilities
Summary
Multiple speakers at the March 10 board meeting urged the supervisors to open county‑funded Be Well mental‑health campuses in Orange and Irvine and to continue funding for UCI's FOCUS pediatric trauma program; supervisors described contractual and audit concerns and asked staff to pursue remedies that would allow county oversight to place providers into operation.
Dozens of residents, clinicians and community leaders urged the Orange County Board of Supervisors on March 10 to open county‑funded mental‑health treatment campuses and to preserve a specialized pediatric clinic that may lose funding.
Speakers including Dr. Richard Fable (Mind OC, S20), Rabbi Rick Steinberg (S24) and UC Irvine clinicians described the Be Well campuses as critically needed facilities and said county‑owned campuses in Orange and Irvine are complete but not yet open to all patients. Speakers asked the board to “cut the red tape” and to insist that Mind OC and the Health Care…
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