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Biden administration officials are hosting back-to-back events this week at the White House for about 160 health care officials, calling gun violence a “public health crisis” that requires them to act. Photo by Mark Leong for CalMatters

White House enlists doctors and hospitals to combat gun violence

June 6, 2024 at 3:48 p.m.

The White House is calling on hospital executives, doctors, and other health care leaders to take bolder steps to prevent gun violence by gathering more data about gunshot injuries and...

Move to protect California’s indoor workers from heat upended by cost questions

March 23, 2024 at 6:58 a.m.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unexpectedly yanked its support from a sweeping proposal that would have protected millions of California’s indoor workers from dangerous heat, saying it can’t endorse it without...

Back From COP28, California climate leaders talk health impacts of warming

February 2, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Wildfire smoke. Drought. Brutal heat. Floods. As Californians increasingly feel the health effects of climate change, state leaders are adopting sweeping policies they hope will fend off the worst impacts...

Feds Say Hospitals That Redistribute Medicaid Money Violate Law

August 16, 2023 at 1:49 p.m.

The Biden administration wants to crack down on private arrangements among some hospitals to reimburse themselves for taxes that help fund coverage for low-income people. It contends the practice violates...

Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles

California hospitals seek a broad bailout, but they don’t all need it

May 25, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.

As hospitals squeeze Democratic leaders in Sacramento for more money, health care finance experts and former state officials warn against falling for industry fear tactics. They point to healthy profits...

Carolina Reyes, a maternal-fetal physician and wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, says the rise in maternal mortality is unacceptable when most of the deaths are preventable. (RICH PEDRONCELLI FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

The nation’s health secretary has this doctor on call

May 3, 2023 at 6:25 a.m.

Carolina Reyes, a Harvard-trained physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, got into medicine to help women obtain health care, especially underserved or marginalized people who face systemic racism. She’s seen...

Gov. Newsom wanted California to cut ties With Walgreens. Then federal law got in the way.

April 6, 2023 at 10:26 a.m.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that California would cut ties with Walgreens after the company said it would not distribute abortion pills in some states. But federal rules make it difficult...

California dangles bonuses for nursing homes that add staff

February 23, 2023 at 11:07 a.m.

California will hand out additional Medicaid payments next year to nursing homes — even low-rated ones — that hire additional workers, reduce staff turnover, or improve quality of care.

Stan Lyles, vice president of the SEIU-UHW union representing health care workers, speaks outside the offices of the Hospital Association of Southern California at a protest in favor of raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour for California health care workers.

In California, Democrats propose $25 minimum wage for health workers

February 14, 2023 at 1:53 p.m.

State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo and Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West want to give health facility support staffers a raise. Hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics are expected...

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