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Norwalk Clinic to Receive Major Financial Gift
Los Angeles County
Supervisor Don Knabe will join local health leaders christen the new
“S. Mark Taper Foundation Building” at the Norwalk Regional Health
Center and celebrate the Foundation’s $300,000 gift that will help
boost health care services at the facility, which opened in February
2006.
Supervisor Knabe, Norwalk City Councilmember Gordon Stefenhagen,
JWCH Institute CEO Al Ballesteros and others will unveil new
building signage to recognize the grant that will provide additional
medical services for low-income, under-insured and uninsured
residents, regardless of their ability to pay. According to the
County’s Health Department, nearly 27,000 people in the City of
Norwalk have no health care insurance.
“With this health center being open for the past year – we are
giving the gift of hope to many of these thousands of people who
have not had access to these services,” Knabe said. “I also want to
express my deepest thanks to the Taper Foundation for their support
of this health center. This type of partnership works well to
benefit our communities.”
The Norwalk Health Center had closed in 2002 because of budget cuts,
but reopened in 2006 with the help of Supervisor Knabe, the Los
Angeles County Department of Health Services, L.A. Care Health Plan
and Kaiser Permanente.
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