Workers at the St. John’s Community Health clinic said they couldn’t help but notice the woman’s absence. According to them, she’d been a regular presence at the diabetes exercise and food classes offered by the clinic in South Los Angeles County, and she often would then stay for a regular appointment with her doctor. When she simply stopped coming recently, the staff began to worry.
After they contacted her at home, the woman agreed to let a doctor visit her there. “Her blood sugar level was through the roof,” said St. John’s president and CEO Jim Mangia. “She’d been doing really well, so we asked what had happened.”
