Nearly 20 percent of San Bernardino County residents enrolled in the state’s low-income insurance program are treated for heart failure — an alarmingly high rate.
Author: Hannah Hough
Aiming to crack down on fraud, California’s regulatory agency took a hard line on all treatment programs in the state that serve low-income people through the Medi-Cal program, leading to frustration and confusion for rehab centers serving low-income addicts.
California and other states are struggling to meet the demand for dentists as they expand eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, according to this report from Kaiser Health News.
California officials have formed a new bureau designed to help some of the state’s most vulnerable children. The Bureau of Children’s Justice aims to help kids who have experienced trauma, educational discrimination, human trafficking or problems in the foster care or juvenile justice system, state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday.
People with mental health disorders have a death rate that is more than twice as high as those without mental illness, according to a study published this morning.
After reports of inaccurate provider directories, a California state senator and three advocacy groups are hoping to require insurers to keep their doctor lists up to date.
Although the Medi-Cal enrollment system is operating significantly better than it did a year ago, the county workers expect it may take several years for it to become a truly smooth process.
As an outbreak of measles linked to Disneyland sweeps across the state, researchers have identified five Northern California areas that have higher proportions of unvaccinated children than the general population.
The women here at the Mixteco/Indigena Organizing Project in downtown Oxnard are part of a new support group and are learning how to manage stress and deal with difficulties in their lives, sometimes including domestic violence and mental illness. As indigenous people, they’ve felt their “outsider status” in both Mexico and the United States. They face other troubles every day as members of an often invisible minority group in California.
After Velma M. left her abusive partner — afraid the violence would put her in the hospital — she and her four children became homeless.