Category: Orange County News

Long Beach dockworkers charged in conspiracy to fraudulently bill union’s health plan for sexual services

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against nine defendants – seven of them dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach – who allowed more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims to be submitted to their labor union’s health insurance plan for sexual services or for physical therapy that never was provided. Read More

Donation of $106 Million to Hoag is Largest Single Gift in Its History

Hoag Hospital Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has received the largest gift in its nearly 70-year history: $106 million from the estate of Audrey Steele Burnand. Hoag officials said the unprecedented gift will be used to significantly expand the hospital’s world-class health care research and treatment capabilities as it steadily climbs Read More

Boaters join community science project to restore native oyster species in Alamitos Bay

This project is a collaborative effort between Orange County Coastkeeper, a nonprofit protecting clean water, and the Long Beach Yacht Club. This is the second consecutive year collecting Olympia oyster larvae from Alamitos Bay. Long Beach boaters will retrieve strings of oyster shells after they’ve been suspended in Alamitos Bay Read More

Rep. Young Kim pushes bill to boost nurse workforce

U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-39) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), and Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), introduced the bipartisan, bicameral National Nursing Workforce Center Act (H.R. 8817) to address nursing workforce shortages. The National Nursing Workforce Center Act would create a 3-year pilot program to enable existing Read More