Johanna Noriega is an RN at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. She’s also an officer at the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), and one of the 21,000 members of the UNAC/UHCP that planned to strike against Kaiser on Nov. 15 throughout Southern California. In this Q&A, Noriega discusses … Read more
On Friday, the Connecting for Better Health coalition convened several representatives from various health care organizations for a discussion on the need to accelerate the adoption of a statewide health data exchange in California. The focus of this conversation was to gain input from these representatives on the implementation of Section 340 of … Read more
Kenneth Rogers is a psychologist for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento. He is one of the nearly 2,000 mental health clinicians that will be staging pickets outside Kaiser hospitals across Northern California on Nov. 19. They are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). In this Q&A, Rogers discusses the union’s key issues for … Read more
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress are a root cause of some of the most harmful, persistent and expensive societal and health challenges facing the world today. With 62 percent of California adults having experienced at least one ACE and 16 percent having experienced four or more, California is taking aggressive steps to address … Read more
The pandemic’s impact on youth mental health is compounding California’s preexisting youth mental health crisis, and behavioral health services for young people in the state are struggling to meet the extremely high demand. In a webinar hosted by the Little Hoover Commission on Monday, representatives from Children Now and the California Alliance of … Read more
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced conditional approval of changes to Riverside Community Health Foundation’s (RCHF) articles of incorporation that will help the nonprofit expand its services in Riverside County. The approval allows RCHF to put more resources and funding into primary and preventive care; improve public health and health equity outcomes through programs that address social, … Read more
In October, amid the myriad of bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was a bill to make California the first state in the country to allow adult children to add qualifying parents or step parents to their health insurance coverage. Assembly Bill 570, otherwise known as the “Parent Healthcare Act,” was authored by … Read more
Amid the Delta surge, California’s current COVID-19 community transmission rate is one of the lowest in the country. This signifies a major shift from just months ago, when California was considered the epicenter of the pandemic in the country. As of Thursday, California had an infection rate of 64.1 cases per 100,000 over … Read more
Nov. 1 marks the beginning of California’s three-month open enrollment period for health coverage. As the pandemic continues on across the state, critical decisions about health coverage for consumers and their families will prove to be especially important this time around. L.A. Care Health Plan, one of the 11 carriers offering plans on the Covered … Read more
University of California Health joins approximately 40 cross-sector health care organizations committing to collecting, stratifying, and reviewing data about race, ethnicity, language and sex across top metrics and sharing anonymized, aggregate-level information to inform best practices. COVID-19 and the social injustice crises of 2020-2021 shined a new light on the systemic disparities in the U.S. … Read more