Mental health service advocates will lobby to secure additional state funding for the county's mental health clinics. Of the 1000 patients who regularly seek treatment at the Arcadia Mental Health Center, half may no longer be served if the clinic closes.
Seven county mental health clinics, including the Arcadia Mental Health Center, face imminent closure as a result of a $15.9 million cut in the Mental Health Services Department budget.
Closure of the Arcadia Mental Health Center and four other Los Angeles County centers was delayed by the State Supreme Court until it can hear the case.
Los Angeles Superior Court has stopped the closure of 3 mental health clinics scheduled to close until a hearing on the legality of the cutbacks can be heard.
Up to 1000 mentally ill people in Arcadia and surrounding cities will be left with nowhere to turn for treatment if the Arcadia Mental Health Clinic closes on September 1.
Due to Los Angeles County budget cuts which will take a $154,465 bite out of the outpatient center's funding the Arcadia Mental Health Center will be losing five therapists who have been seeing 450 to 500 patients a year and keeping them out of hospitals and institutions.
As part of a long-range plan to guarantee the finest outpatient surgery system for Arcadia and surrounding communities, Arcadia Methodist Hospital is in the process of moving and expanding its current service. Outpatient Surgery is designed to allow certain surgical patients to come into the hospital, have surgery, and be discharged the same day.
The Board of Education has added four new members to the Long-Range Space Utilization Committee. The additions provide for representation by a parent from every elementary school in the district.
Members of the school district Long Range Space Utilization Task Force have been visiting all the elementary schools in the district to gain an overview of all the facilities before they recommend which should be closed.
A shuttle service with Chinese-speaking drivers will begin in November between San Gabriel Valley, including Arcadia, and the LA International Airport.
Although its financial needs are not being met, Arcadia Methodist Hospital reports, the medical facility has decided to continue as a trauma center as long as financially feasible.
New zip codes go into effect today. These include: 91006 - for all post office boxes in the main post office on Wheeler Street; 91077 - for all post office boxes in the West Arcadia Post Office; 91007 - for the area south of the 210 Freeway and west of Santa Anita Avenue.