by Monica Vargas | Jan 14, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
As the COVID-19 virus continues to cause statewide impacts, California agencies are expanding efforts to address hospital bed shortages by adding capacity to existing systems. To augment surge capacity, Alternate Care Sites were stood up earlier last year in...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 14, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, 2,580 medical personnel...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 14, 2021 | All
In preparation of dangerous fire weather conditions continuing across Southern California, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has strategically prepositioned critical fire resources to include strike teams of fire engines, firefighters,...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 13, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) publicó las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según las proyecciones de la UCI de...
by Robb Mayberry | Jan 13, 2021 | All
Cal OES continues its mission alongside partner agencies to support local communities by providing critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The graphic below shows the inventory of all critical supplies and what has been...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 13, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Beginning today, CDPH will update the Regional Stay at Home metrics for each...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 13, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, 2,048 medical personnel...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 13, 2021 | Allied Agency News
New Tool to Notify People of Vaccine Eligibility to Launch Next Week SACRAMENTO – In order to increase the pace of COVID-19 vaccine distribution to those at greatest risk, the state is prioritizing individuals 65 and older to receive the vaccine as demand subsides...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 12, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The following may be attributed to CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray, Cal OES Director and Homeland Security Advisor Mark Ghilarducci and California National Guard Adjutant General David Baldwin: Following the events that unfolded in our nation’s capital last...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 12, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on four-week ICU projections, the Greater Sacramento region can...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 12, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) anunció las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según los datos de la UCI, cuatro...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 12, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – In an effort to help decompress California’s healthcare delivery system during the statewide surge in COVID-19 cases, Alternate Care Sites and Residential Alternate Care Sites are being established across California. The Residential Alternate Care Sites,...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 11, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 11, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded California small nonfarm businesses of the deadline dates to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury....
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 11, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, nearly 1,900 medical...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 10, 2021 | Video Packages
It’s been three years since short but intense rainfall created the mudslides and debris flows that devastated Montecito in Santa Barbara. Here’s a short yet poignant look back at that event that happened on January 9, 2018. ...
by Shawn Boyd | Jan 8, 2021 | All
Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, gives front line health workers, public servants, teachers and so many other essential workers the ability to safely care for those stricken with COVID19 and carry on activity important to daily life. These items include, but are...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 8, 2021 | All
Three years ago, a series of mudflows roared down the hillsides of the Santa Ynez mountains and through the small town of Montecito, igniting frantic recovery efforts and paralyzing Santa Barbara County. As the Thomas Fire, which at the time was the largest wildfire...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 8, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, nearly 1,800 medical...
by Alyson Hanner | Jan 8, 2021 | All
Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci shares details on how the state is mitigating the rising number of COVID-19-related deaths. Watch the video below to find out more about the two new mutual aid plans being put in place to assist counties with the storage of COVID-19...
by Alyson Hanner | Jan 8, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – As property owners begin the process of recovering after a wildfire, there are programs and resources available to help get them back on track. One of those is the State’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program led by the California Governor’s Office of...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 7, 2021 | Allied Agency News, en Español
Las dosis pueden ir a individuos en grupos de menor prioridad cuando la demanda de alta prioridad cede o cuando las dosis están a punto de expirar. SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el estado emitió recomendaciones de vacunas a los departamentos y proveedores locales de salud...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 7, 2021 | Allied Agency News
Doses may go to individuals in lower priority groups when high-priority demand subsides or when doses are about to expire SACRAMENTO – Today the state issued vaccine recommendations to local public health departments and providers focused on accelerating the...
by Jim Kyle | Jan 7, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Until the necessary critical mass of our population has been properly inoculated with one of the available vaccines and the rate of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 begins to drop, there is an immediate need to address the fallout from the overwhelming number of cases...
by Robb Mayberry | Jan 7, 2021 | All
Last March, health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic were facing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortages. As the State of California assessed PPE supply needs, efforts were made to identify providers and secure contracts for additional...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 7, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – In expanding continued efforts to protect...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 6, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 6, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
California’s Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System has sent additional Firefighter Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) on 14-day deployments to assist emergency rooms and other vital medical areas in some of California’s most impacted hospitals. These...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 6, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) in partnership with State’s Districts Attorney’s and the US Attorney’s Office continue to investigate and remediate fraud within state and federal unemployment insurance...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 6, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 5, 2021 | en Español
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) anunció las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según los datos de la UCI, cuatro...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 5, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Earlier last year as the spread of the COVID-19 virus began painting a dire picture of potential hospital bed shortages, California agencies stood up Alternate Care Sites to build capacity to help decompress healthcare systems. While the facilities remained in...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 5, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – Taking action to maintain life-preserving healthcare system capacity amid the current surge in COVID-19 cases, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the California Health and Human Services Agency today formally requested...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 5, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Calls for immediate action to support small businesses, including $575 million on top of the $500 million previously allocated to California’s Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant, bringing total support to more than $1 billion SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin...
by Robb Mayberry | Jan 5, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
by Jonathan Gudel | Jan 5, 2021 | Cal OES Press Releases
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – In an effort to increase protection for...
by Monica Vargas | Jan 4, 2021 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
by Bryan May | Jan 3, 2021 | All, Cal OES Press Releases
California’s Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System, most often used in response to wildfires, floods and other natural emergencies, is now assisting in the state’s response to Covid-19. Firefighter Paramedics and EMT’s are being deployed for a 14-day...
by Brad Alexander | Jan 1, 2021 | All, Cal OES Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is collaborating with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to rapidly deploy a team of design and construction experts to the Los Angeles region to evaluate and where necessary upgrade oxygen...
by Shawn Boyd | Dec 31, 2020 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) anunció las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según los datos de la UCI, cuatro...
by Jonathan Gudel | Dec 31, 2020 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Today the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
by Jonathan Gudel | Dec 31, 2020 | Cal OES Press Releases
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – Enhancing efforts to protect healthcare workers and patients...
by Alyson Hanner | Dec 31, 2020 | Allied Agency News
SACRAMENTO – Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to California businesses and residents affected by the Mountain View Fire that occurred Nov. 17 – Nov. 23, 2020, announced Administrator Jovita Carranza of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA acted...
by Monica Vargas | Dec 31, 2020 | Cal OES Press Releases
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to increase at alarming rates throughout California, a multi-agency state technical assistance team has been directed to assist Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Joaquin counties as its hospital systems...
by Monica Vargas | Dec 30, 2020 | Allied Agency News
First Case of United Kingdom Coronavirus Variant Detected in California SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has been notified by San Diego County Public Health Services of a patient with the variant COVID-19 virus strain originally detected...
by Robb Mayberry | Dec 30, 2020 | Governor Press Releases
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order to further assist communities across the state recovering from devastating wildfires dating back to 2017. The order extends the state’s prohibition on price gouging for Butte, Los Angeles, Mendocino,...
by Robb Mayberry | Dec 30, 2020 | Allied Agency News
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced that the deadline to apply for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program for the COVID-19 Pandemic disaster declaration is extended to Dec. 31, 2021. The deadline extension comes as a result...
by Robb Mayberry | Dec 30, 2020 | Governor Press Releases
Governor outlines framework to continue and expand safe in-person instruction in early spring, including a $2 billion early action proposal to support school safety measures Governor’s plan is built on four pillars: Funding to Support Safe Reopening; Safety &...
by Monica Vargas | Dec 29, 2020 | Governor Press Releases
Nation-leading program participants close escrow on all 94 projects, representing 6,029 units of permanent housing for individuals experiencing homelessness Homekey acquisition phase finishes on-time and under budget All 51 awardees have also received at least one...
by Monica Vargas | Dec 28, 2020 | Allied Agency News
CDPH Provides Direction on Implementation of Crisis Care Continuum Guidelines During the Current Surge of COVID-19 Cases SACRAMENTO –The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care...
