{"id":13098,"date":"2019-04-24T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2019-04-24T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:22:26","slug":"the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13098","title":{"rendered":"The Homeless Are Dying In Record Numbers On The Streets Of L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman and Harriet Blair Rowan for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A record number of homeless people \u2014 918 last year alone \u2014 are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a KHN analysis of the coroner\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials and experts have not pinpointed a single cause for the sharp increase in deaths, but they say rising substance abuse may be a major reason. The surge also reflects growth in the number of people who are chronically homeless and those who don\u2019t typically use shelters, which means more people are living longer on the streets with serious physical and behavioral health issues, they say.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/multimedia\/the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72033447&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_8pM7pscgVHQnVRwcKbJT9DD3lsAio6TFfLNLKlfMudpjXsmeQnVlD0sTfA7W2Da-w0VdjLz7WBRgWs1RIxr__-yyAKg&amp;_hsmi=72033447\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman and Harriet Blair Rowan for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) A record number of homeless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13099,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}