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CalOptima Health’s street medicine program is doubling its reach by expanding to four more cities — Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and Westminster, officials announced Monday.
How it works: CalOptima is a public health insurance plan for low income residents in Orange County. The “doctor’s office on wheels” will bring primary health care, behavioral health services and case management to unhoused people, meeting them wherever they are. The four cities join Garden Grove, Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Santa Ana.
Officials say: “Our goal at the end of the day, really, is to help our members on their journey to permanent housing.” Yunkyung Kim, chief operating officer at CalOptima, told LAist. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to be truly healthy on the streets.”…