{"id":30269,"date":"2020-12-30T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30269"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:45:42","slug":"hahn-writes-to-governor-newsom-requesting-additional-healthcare-workers-and-usns-mercy-hospital-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30269","title":{"rendered":"Hahn Writes to Governor Newsom Requesting Additional Healthcare Workers and USNS Mercy Hospital Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">San Pedro, CA\u2014Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn has written a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom supporting SEIU 721\u2019s request for additional healthcare workers in Los Angeles County hospitals in response to the surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations. Hahn is also requesting that Governor Newsom call on federal partners to dispatch the USNS Mercy hospital ship to the Port of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cOur SEIU healthcare workers are exhausted and our hospitals are overwhelmed. They need backup,\u201d said Supervisor Janice Hahn. \u201cThis surge is the crisis that we dreaded all along. We need as much support as we can get for our healthcare workers and we need the USNS Mercy back in the Port of Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Hahn is supporting SEIU 721\u2019s request for Army National Guard medical personnel, specifically additional registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and respiratory care practitioners, to be sent to Los Angeles County hospitals. Hospitals across LA County are preparing to ration care as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise and surpass the ability of available staff to properly treat patients.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The USNS Mercy had previously docked at the Port of LA early on in the pandemic, but departed when hospitalizations did not rise to the point of overwhelming local hospitals. \u00a0Although the USNS Mercy cannot treat COVID-19 patients, it would be able to treat non-COVID-19 patients and relieve some of the burden on LA County hospitals.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/j5AjFpCu9foptxCjGQfUVOukbabRWRubhWPpCrXZ6g9icivwLPc1UumUcQqi8iRvYe98iVwix3ojuxaucfp_QhHUXG-9jCNBCiwazgHUKH-UWVCqzJ4RZ9TmXBywKpNksFlKbnkebIrDDfPj-O9H7_qqj7hVaauPIm9oqAQYy0O9Fg=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/CALACOUNTY\/2020\/12\/3994502\/3347576\/usns-mercy_crop.jpg\" alt=\"usns mercy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Pedro, CA\u2014Los Angeles County Supervisor&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30270,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269\/revisions\/30270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}