For Dr. Patrick Dowling, volunteering at the 2019 Care Harbor free clinic for people who are uninsured or who lack access to health care is a sharp break from his norm of treating people at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.
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05/02/2019
WesternU Magazines|WesternU Helps Shepherd Care Harbor Mega-Clinic To Pomona
Western University of Health Sciences, in collaboration with other major local institutions, answered the call to help bring Care Harbor to Pomona. WesternU played a key role in planning the event, and hundreds of WesternU students, faculty and staff volunteered April 27-28, 2019 at Care Harbor Fairplex.
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The annual event in downtown Los Angeles offers essential basic services to those in need.
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01/03/2018
UCLA Newsroom|UCLA volunteers provide free health care at downtown L.A. mega clinic
Care Harbor clinic offered essential basic services to those in need With the strongly held belief that access to health care should be available to everyone — not just the insured — nearly 200 volunteers from UCLA joined an effort to provide free services to more than 2,000 people at a three-day Care Harbor community clinic.
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POMONA, Calif. – Care Harbor Los Angeles is returning Nov. 17-19, 2017, providing free medical, dental, vision and preventative care to thousands of Southern California residents who could not otherwise afford these services.
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The three-day mega health clinic will be held inside The Reef, an 850,000-square-foot building where designers and other creative types display their work. On Thursday, volunteers worked to prepare the second floor of the building with signs, 45 examination rooms and dozens of long display tables.
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01/2017
Dental Dimensions|Care Harbor/ LA Free Clinic/ November 17,18,19,2017
Imagine a once per year Health Care Clinic on the scale of a dental convention with 60 chairs Dental Unit, a Vision Center, and a Medical Section that together treated 1,000 patients in one day.
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01/13/2017
89.3 KPCC|Care Harbor offering guaranteed spots for annual free health clinic
Care Harbor is offering wristbands to LA County’s uninsured at a pair of giveaway events this weekend that secure a place for them at the charity’s seventh annual free health care clinic later this month.
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11/02/2015
PNN|Physicians News Network- Care Harbor Holds 5th Annual Los Angeles ‘Mega’ Free Clinic
Care Harbor, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that helps uninsured and medically underserved populations by organizing large-scale free urban health clinics, held its fifth annual Los Angeles clinic on Oct. 15-18 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
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Come Thursday, the nearly 17,000-seat Sports Arena will once again be transformed into a massive medical, dental and vision clinic, where hundreds of dentists, optometrists, nurses and other volunteers will offer free care for three days to those in need.
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Health care workers also uncover serious, untreated health conditions. It was a typical misunderstanding that could have led to disastrous consequences. The man had run out of medication to control his hypertension. But he couldn’t afford to get it refilled, or so he thought.
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EXPOSITION PARK >> Sergio Sparza, a tall, husky man, suffered from a small yet biting pain.
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12/03/2013
L.A. Care at Care Harbor 2013
Patients, volunteers and physicians share their stories about Care Harbor/LA, an annual free health clinic at the L.A. Sports Arena, which provides medical, vision and dental services to the underserved and uninsured populations.
10/30/2013
#LATogether| Unsung Hero Donald Manelli, Care Harbor’s President and Founder
Mr. Manelli was selected as the California Community Foundation’s 2013 Unsung Hero of Los Angeles because of the work he has done to inspire thousands of health professionals to donate their time to serve those in need of medical care through this nonprofit organization.
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10/08/2013
NBC- Life Connected Award: A life of Service
Donald Manelli is the force behind one of the biggest life-saving events in Los Angeles: Care Harbor, one of the biggest free-health events in California. NBC4 will proudly present the reward to Donald Manelli on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Colleen Williams reports in this Life Connected segment airing Oct. 6, 2013.
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10/09/2013
Unsung Heroes of Los Angeles
10/20/2012
County Digest | Spirit on Display at Care Harbor Event
For those needing ongoing care, DHS volunteers were on hand to provide linkages to community clinics and services. One woman showed up complaining of stomach pain and was diagnosed with a large abdominal mass. Health Services providers were able to schedule surgery at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center for her within days.
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Care Harbor LA transformed a sports arena into a huge health clinic where many of those seeking services are not only employed, but have insurance – and cannot afford their deductibles. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports.
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09/27/2012
Los Angeles Times | Patients flock to L.A. Sports Arena for free health services
Care Harbor, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, is the lead
organizer of the event, running from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. The presenting sponsor is the L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest health plan, which serves Los Angeles County residents through such programs as Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Thousands of Southern California residents without health care will descend upon the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena for a free four-day medical clinic.
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Care Harbor will be distributing wristbands Monday for those wanting to participate in the large-scale free health clinic that will be held later this week.
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Care Harbor is gearing up to host another massive four-day free clinic in Los Angeles next week…
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09/18/2012
Care Harbor To Hold Its Annual Large-Scale Free Health Clinic
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Care Harbor President Don Manelli stopped by KCAL9…
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11/09/2017
The Dr. Oz Show | The CareNow Free Clinic Saved My Life
Vern Bowman attended the CareNow free clinic in Los Angeles. After working for 41 years, he lost his job two years ago, as well as his access to health insurance. He went to the free clinic to see a dentist, but while under the care of volunteer physicians, learned he had a much more serious problem with this AICD heart defibrillator. Here is his story.
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The center of the Sports Arena where the clinic is located was packed with rows of dental chairs, surrounded by hundreds who waited in stadium seating for their turn with a dentist. Salvador Arias, who lost his job at a printing press six months ago, was waiting in line to have three teeth removed and a loose filling taken care of. As he sat waiting, he admitted to The Huffington Post, “it’s kind of scary” knowing he’s going to walk out of the arena with three less teeth.
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10/15/2011
Mark Ridley-Thomas | CareNow right now
CareNow President and Founder Don Manelli, along with representatives from the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, the Department of Health Services, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Mental Health, and a host of medical, dental and vision volunteers were recognized at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting for serving thousands of uninsured or underinsured Los Angeles County residents.
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