Plea deal talks continue in Carrillo case
Carrillo bailed and went into seclusion for five weeks, seeking treatment at an alcohol rehabilitation center. When he returned to the Board of Supervisors in August, he disclosed a longtime binge drinking problem. Prosecutors last fall filed the lone …
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Helping people with mental illness
… people with mental illness. It is the largest private nonprofit provider of mental health services in Santa Clara County. Photo by Veronica Weber. …. Palo Alto's Community Working Group, a nonprofit formed in 1998 to address homelessness, created …
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When squirrels attack! There's a medical code for that.
The prospect of quadrupling the number of medical codes used in those calculations has touched off a heated debate over whether more specificity is an onerous layer of bureaucratic red tape — or a valuable chance to better understand and treat complex …
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