Body (Santa Ana, CA) - The OC Health Care Agency’s (HCA) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) has published the Orange County (OC) Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Plan update for FY 2024-25. The draft plan is posted and ready for public review here . It will remain posted through April 15, 2024...

Body (Santa Ana, CA) - The OC Health Care Agency (HCA) is pleased to announce that recruitment is now open for the CalOptima Health Board of Directors. A County-organized health system, CalOptima Health serves nearly 935,000 low-income children, adults, seniors and people with disabilities. CalOptima Health launched in 1995 in response...

Body To Orange County providers, Any cases of meningococcal disease, either suspect or confirmed, should be reported to OCHCA immediately at 714-834-8180. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to alert healthcare providers to an increase in invasive meningococcal disease, mainly...

Body (Santa Ana, CA) - The OC Health Care Agency (HCA) has posted the 2024-26 Orange County Community Health Improvement Plan (OC CHIP) for public review and comment at http://www.ochealthinfo.com/occhip through April 24, 2024. The plan lays out assessments, goals, objectives, and strategies for six priority areas over the next three...

Body The CDC released a Health Advisory related to the investigation and response to confirmed human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) following exposure to infected dairy cattle. The case was a farm worker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas. The individual developed a mild illness with conjunctivitis...

Body The California Department of Public Health is issuing this Health Advisory to notify health care providers, laboratories and public health departments that a woman in Sacramento developed severe lead poisoning and died in March 2024 after using a hemorrhoid ointment from Vietnam called, Cao Bôi Trĩ Cây Thầu Dầu. The...

Body (Santa Ana, CA) – Due to the risk of lead poisoning, the OC Health Care Agency (HCA) urges users of the Vietnamese hemorrhoid ointment called Cao Bôi Trĩ Cây Thầu Dầu​​ (Castor Oil Hemorrhoid Extract) to immediately stop using the ointment and to get their blood tested for lead. The...

Body (Santa Ana, CA) – The OC Health Care Agency (HCA) invites the community to participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at convenient locations throughout Orange County (OC). The public is encouraged to remove unneeded medications from their homes...

Body (Santa Ana, CA) – - Information provided to the OC Health Care Agency (HCA) indicates that tetrachloroethylene has been detected in subsurface and indoor air samples at 1002 E. 17th Street, Suites A-R in the City of Santa Ana. Sampling of soil and sub-slab gas and indoor air conducted in...

Body National public health surveillance has recently detected an increase in invasive Neisseria meningitidis (N men) disease caused by isolates that are resistant to ciprofloxacin. In February 2024, the CDC addressed this issue in a report Selection of Antibiotics as Prophylaxis for Close Contacts of Patients with Meningococcal Disease in Areas...