Cameron Kahn

The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) built the Behavioral Health Public County Profile on the Databricks platform, a first-of-its-kind public dashboard that brings behavioral health data from all 58 counties into one place for nearly 40 million Californians.

A 73-year-old female with a past medical history of stroke, hypertension, end stage renal disease on hemodialysis presents to the emergency department for altered mental status and slurred speech. On physical examination, she had a right pupillary defect in a star-like pattern with initial concern for a blown pupil (see image) raising suspicion for acute stroke. Her initial blood pressure was 230/110 mmHg and neuroimaging were unremarkable for stroke. She was admitted for hypertensive emergency.