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By Marissa Ortega-Welch, KALW Local Public Radio, February 21, 2017 Read the article on KALW’s website Kris Gambardella rushed to update the “gender marker” on his driver’s license after Trump was elected. MARISSA ORTEGA-WELCH Kris Gambardella is visiting the doctor today in order to get a new driver’s license. Kris is 26 and does social […]

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle February 19, 2017  Read the article on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle Dr. Andrew Desruisseau checks the eyes of Sonia Hernandez at Tenderloin Health Services in San Francisco. Hernandez is a hep\atitis C patient. San Francisco is trying to become the first city in the

By Eleni Gastis, San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2017  Read the article on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website Now, more than ever, HealthRight360 CEO Vitka Eisen is prepared to fight for the communities she serves. Anticipating the opening of a new five-story, 50,000 square-foot facility on Mission Street this fall, there is a lot for

By Laurie Udesky, from Kaiser Health News, January 22, 2017 Read the article on NPR’s website A large collage decorates a wall of one exam room at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, Calif. Dr. David Smith, founder of the clinic, says patients and staff call the mural the Psychedelic Wall of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2016                                                                   HealthRIGHT 360 Statement on the Surgeon General’s Report: Facing Addiction in America By Vitka Eisen, MSW, Ed.D, Chief Executive Officer SAN FRANCISCO — Today, HealthRIGHT 360, one of California’s largest community health care providers and addiction treatment pioneers, issued a statement in response to the Surgeon General’s groundbreaking report, Facing

By Whitney McKnight, Frontline Medical News, November 22, 2016 Read the article on the Clinical Psychiatry News website Primary and emergency care providers must step up prevention efforts and the use of state-of-the-art medicine when treating patients with addiction, according to the first-ever U.S. Surgeon General’s report on alcohol, drugs, and health. In the report, “Facing

By Victoria Colliver, November 5, 2016  Read article on SF Chronicle site A young doctor from Delaware with a transgender patient wanted to know how his medications for bipolar disorder would affect his hormone therapy. The physician, still in a residency program, contacted TransLine, an e-consultation service that operates out of San Francisco’s Lyon-Martin Health Services, which serves women and

Oct 3, 2016, Chris Rauber Reporter San Francisco Business Times Homeless health care nonprofit continues renovation of main building.​ HealthRight 360, a San Francisco nonprofit that provides health care services to the homeless and other vulnerable low-income populations, is roughly two-thirds of the way through revamping its new $51 million headquarters at 1563 Mission St.

In Mid-April, HealthRIGHT 360 announced plans to merge with Los Angeles-based Prototypes, a provider of addiction treatment and mental health services. Today, we are proud to share the official start of our relationship with the newest member of the HealthRIGHT 360 family, as the merger goes into full effect July 1. For the last two and a half months,

Read Press Release on National Council Site FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Liane Kluge, LianeK@TheNationalCouncil.org, 202.684.7457 National Council Welcomes Four New Regional Directors June 29, 2016 (Washington, DC) – The National Council for Behavioral Health welcomes four, newly-elected regional directors committed to promoting excellence and sharing their unique expertise within mental health and addictions treatment services in regions across