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Contact: Governor's Press Office |
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Governor Newsom Announces California Health Corps, a Major Initiative to Expand Health Care Workforce to Fight COVID-19
Governor signs executive order to expand health care workforce and staff at least an additional 50,000 hospital beds needed for the COVID-19 surge
Medical doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, behavioral health scientists, pharmacists, EMTs, medical and administrative assistants, certified nursing assistants all needed
Governor Newsom: "If you have a background in health care, we need your help. Sign up at healthcorps.ca.gov"
SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom today launched a major new initiative to expand California's health care workforce and recruit health care professionals to address the COVID-19 surge. Health care professionals with an active license, public health professionals, medical retirees, medical and nursing students, or members of medical disaster response teams in California are all encouraged to join the new California Health Corps.
Interested medical and health care professionals are encouraged to visit healthcorps.ca.gov for more information and to register for the California Health Corps. Medical doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, behavioral health scientists, pharmacists, EMTs, medical and administrative assistants, as well as certified nursing assistants are encouraged to step up and meet this moment to help California respond to the outbreak.
The Governor also signed an executive order that will temporarily expand the health care workforce and allow health care facilities to staff at least an additional 50,000 hospital beds the state needs to treat COVID-19 patients. A copy of the Governor's executive order can be found here, and the text of the order can be found here.
"California's health care workers are the heroes of this moment, serving on the front lines in the fight against this disease. To treat the rising number of patients with COVID-19, our state needs more workers in the health care field to join the fight. If you have a background in health care, we need your help. Sign up at healthcorps.ca.gov," said Governor Newsom.
"Outreach to unemployed health care workers and under-employed foreign medical graduates will help build the workforce needed to fight the pandemic - and also create new opportunities and jobs for Californians struggling with unemployment," said California Labor Secretary Julie A. Su.
"California must continue to prepare our health care delivery system and make sure it has every resource to respond to a potential surge in COVID-19 patients. California's most valuable resource is its people and I join the Governor in calling on all medical professionals to join the fight against COVID-19," said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly.
More ways for Californians to support their communities and request assistance are outlined on the California Volunteers website serve.ca.gov. For more information on the state's response to COVID-19, visit covid19.ca.gov.
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Congregation Leaders:
Help Us To Help You Share
Your Sacred Online Worship With Others!
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As our Abrahamic sisters and brothers from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths quickly approach Easter, Passover and Ramadan, religious observances that offer hope and the message of deliverance from oppression and temporal bondage, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) social distancing precautions will require a very different kind of observance in 2020. In an effort to help congregations better engage their faithful, and those of other traditions, in the rich worship of these sacred observances, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) is creating a portal with links to these sacred holy day online services, which it will disseminate to its 5,000
e-subscribers. Your participation is as simple and easy as forwarding a link.
WILL YOUR CONGREGATION
BE LIVE STREAMING
EASTER, PASSOVER, RAMADAN
OR OTHER SIGNIFICANT UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES?
IF SO, AND YOU WOULD YOU LIKE TO INVITE SAN FRANCISCO'S
GREATER INTERFAITH COMMUNITY TO JOIN YOU ONLINE,
PLEASE FORWARD THE LINK TO YOUR SPECIAL HOLY DAY ONLINE WORSHIP SERVICE
TO THE SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL:
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Latest Coronavirus Facts
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What SF Communities of Faith
Are Doing and Saying About the Coronavirus
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We invite you to review these best practices with care and, as appropriate, use them as examples to share with your faithful.
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As these links live on the SFIC website, we encourage you to continue forwarding any and all like communications you post on your respective websites and social media platforms to:
SFIC Program/Administrative Associate
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