Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Friday, June 21, 2024
Laguna Honda Is Back In Business: Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco’s largest skilled nursing facility, has regained Medicare certification and can admit new residents again and bring back others who had to be transferred during the recertification process — ending a two-year regulatory saga that threatened the closure of the facility. Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 20, 2024
Shigella Outbreak Plaguing San Jose Homeless Encampments: An outbreak of shigellosis, a highly infectious gastrointestinal infection, is sweeping through Columbus Park homeless encampments, public health officials said. The risk to the general public is low. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and Bay Area News Group.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Mpox Cases Spike in Los Angeles County: Alarmed after 10 more cases are reported in the last two weeks, officials advise anyone who shows symptoms to seek medical attention. Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Monday, June 17, 2024
UCSF Hospital Can Be Built, Appeals Court Rules: Neighborhood opponents of a huge hospital planned for UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus said it would violate city height and zoning restrictions, and a judge said they could try to prove their case. But a state appeals court says the university is exempt from the restrictions and can go ahead with the construction. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Friday, June 14, 2024
CalPERS Switches To Blue Shield: The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has named Blue Shield of California as the only health plan in its preferred provider organization. CalPERS’s previous carrier for two decades was Anthem Blue Cross. The retirement system oversees health benefits for more than 1.5 million members. Read more from Fierce Healthcare.
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 13, 2024
US Supreme Court Upholds Access To Abortion Pill: Two years after repealing the constitutional right to abortion that it had declared in 1973, the Supreme Court unanimously voted to preserve women’s access to mifepristone, the pill used in nearly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions, according to a ruling released Thursday. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Doctors, Dentists May Get Raises, Possibly Averting Strike: Unionized doctors and dentists who work at hospitals and other health facilities run by Los Angeles County will get cost-of-living increases and bonuses under tentative agreements with the county, reached after more than two years of bargaining and threats of a strike. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Medicaid coverage, abortion telehealth shield law, best diet for you and planet, hospital watch news, covid vaccines, and more.
Daily Edition for Monday, June 10, 2024
Nursing home safety, maternal health, the housing crisis, climate-related disasters, MDMA, toxic stress, covid variants, and more are in the news.
Daily Edition for Friday, June 7, 2024
People’s Park At UC Berkeley Can Be Developed Into Housing, Justices Rule: The California Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for UC Berkeley to build housing for students and unhoused people in historic People’s Park. The park in recent years became a refuge for homeless people and a magnet for drugs, rats, and crime. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and CalMatters.