A dense South Los Angeles community gets help from LAUSD — a badly-needed wellness center for kids and families.
By Munina Lam, Correspondent
Ron Tanimura, LAUSD’s director of student medical services, said families in the Florence-Firestone area struggle just with locating a health provider to get their child immunized in time for school enrollment. He said the locations of new and planned wellness centers are chosen using LAUSD data that identifies communities as “service deserts.”
Los Angeles Unified held a ribbon cutting for its newest wellness center on the New Charles Drew Middle School campus, located in the Florence-Firestone area of South Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
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