Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Friday, July 12, 2024
Nursing home staffing, covid vaccines and summer uptick, heat deaths, telehealth, bird flu, homelessness, IVF access, and more are in the news.
Daily Edition for Thursday, July 11, 2024
Rady Children’s Hospital Nurses Vote To Strike: Nurses and technical employees represented by United Nurses of Children’s Hospital voted Tuesday to strike after rejecting a three-year contract that would have increased the average salary by about 22%. Read more in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Mental Health Expenditures Detailed: The legislature earmarked $50 million in the 2022 budget for “officer wellness” programs, with an eye toward improving the mental health of police, and documents show how law enforcement has been spending that money. Read more in The Sacramento Bee.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, July 9, 2024
New Wellness Campus Taking Shape: The nonprofit Mentis next year will open a 13,000-square-foot campus in Napa that will serve as a hub for mental health resources as it expands and centralizes services. Read more in The Press Democrat.
Daily Edition for Monday, July 8, 2024
Measures Added To California Ballot: California voters will be asked to consider 10 ballot measures in November. Among the initiatives: funding Medi-Cal, same-sex marriage, forced labor, and Medicaid payments for pharmaceuticals. Read more in The Los Angeles Times and AP.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Settlement Reached Over Struggling Hospitals: UCSF must continue charity care, adhere to price growth caps, and invest hundreds of millions of dollars into St. Mary’s Medical Center and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, the two struggling San Francisco hospitals it is acquiring for $100 million, under a settlement reached with the state attorney general. Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, July 2, 2024
National Heat Protections Proposed: Following California's lead, the Biden administration on Tuesday announced that it will advance a proposed rule to protect indoor and outdoor workers from high temperatures. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Monday, July 1, 2024
New Health Laws Go Into Effect Today: In an effort to prevent drink-spiking incidents, most bars and nightclubs now must have drug-testing kits available for sale. Also, schools that instruct third to fifth grade must provide free menstrual products in bathrooms. Read more from KUSI, The Sacramento Bee, and Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Friday, June 28, 2024
Gender Notification Bill Heads To Newsom: After a chaotic debate on the Assembly floor, California lawmakers on Thursday sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would ban schools from requiring teachers to notify parents about changes to a student’s gender identity. Read more from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Blade.
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 27, 2024
Dozens Of SF Inmates Test Positive For Covid: San Francisco sheriff’s officials said Wednesday that more than three dozen people incarcerated in city jails were being isolated because of covid. Forty-two people have tested positive, sheriff’s officials said. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.