{"id":84872,"date":"2019-01-23T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=84872"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:11:59","slug":"breathmobile-coming-to-antelope-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/23\/breathmobile-coming-to-antelope-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathmobile coming to Antelope Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Image via LA Breathmobile]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for a mobile asthma clinic for children in the Antelope Valley with\u00a0limited access to asthma-related care and medications.<\/p>\n

The Antelope Valley Breathmobile program<\/em> is expected to launch by spring 2019. The local program will be developed\u00a0in coordination with the LA Breathmobile program, which was established in 1995 as the first mobile pediatric\u00a0asthma management program in the nation, based out of LAC+USC Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who authored the motion, said the Breathmobile program has been successful throughout most of the county. She said\u00a085 percent of patients achieved \u201cwell-controlled\u201d asthma by visit three to the program, with a 96 percent probability of\u00a0achieving control by visit six.<\/p>\n

“The one place it is not expanded yet is in the Antelope Valley where I would argue it is needed most,” Barger said.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the Antelope Valley, childhood asthma prevalence is 14.2 percent, which is nearly double the\u00a0countywide childhood asthma prevalence rate of 7.4 percent, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Additional data shows that\u00a069.6 percent of children with asthma in the Antelope Valley report having to miss one day or\u00a0more of school or daycare due to asthma; and 34.2 percent of children in the Antelope Valley report an emergency room or urgent care visit due to asthma.<\/p>\n

“The Breathmobile will play a critical role in expanding access to all children by bringing these programs to schools. It will provide access to prescription medications to help keep asthma under control and provide valuable education materials to minimize the triggers of asthma in the home environment,” Barger said.<\/p>\n

The County’s Department of Health Services already has a Breathmobile van able\u00a0to be deployed, but in order to initiate operations in the Antelope Valley, the County would\u00a0need additional staffing to support specialized asthma services — including a\u00a0specialty-trained asthma provider, one registered nurse, one certified medical assistant, and two community health workers, according to the motion.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Antelope Valley Breathmobile will be based out of the High Desert Regional Health\u00a0Center, and the staff will provide asthma specialty services both in the mobile clinic and\u00a0at the facility.<\/p>\n

“The Breathmobile has provided some wonderful services to the rest of the county, and it is time for us to ensure that the children of the Antelope Valley can receive these services as well,\u201d said Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, the motion\u2019s co-author.<\/p>\n

Supervisors directed the Department of Health Services\u00a0to develop a program budget and staffing\u00a0plan for an Antelope Valley Breathmobile program and to submit the plan to the\u00a0Chief Executive Office in 21 days.<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for a mobile asthma clinic for children in the Antelope Valley with\u00a0limited access to asthma-related care and medications. The Antelope Valley Breathmobile program is expected to launch by spring 2019. The local program will be developed\u00a0in coordination with the LA Breathmobile program, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}