Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Psychiatric Hospital Abused Patients For Years, State Finds: The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that College Hospital in Cerritos (Los Angeles County), a for-profit psychiatric hospital, abused patients for years by excessively and improperly strapping them down and drugging them in violation of federal and state regulations. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Monday, May 19, 2025
Suspected Fertility Clinic Bomber May Be Linked To Manifesto With Fringe Views: The car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, or the belief that no one should have children, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident. Investigators are focusing on social media posts made by the suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus, including a 30-minute audio recording. The posts and recording are still being verified. Read more from NBC News.
Daily Edition for Friday, May 16, 2025
Group Asks State To Pay For Post-Fire Soil Testing: Environmental researchers are calling on the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. They are imploring officials not to abandon the state’s wildfire-recovery protocols, namely the policy to conduct soil sampling. Federal disaster agencies have refused to do that work. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 15, 2025
GOP 'Megabill' Will Hurt California’s Budget, Lawmakers Warn: Republicans are still negotiating how they plan to trim hundreds of billions from federal health care and environmental programs, but it appears that it will come at the cost of California’s budget. This legislation “rips massive holes in states’ budgets that are near impossible to fill,” said Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle. Keep scrolling for more on the GOP’s “megabill” and the potential cuts to Medicaid.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Newsom Backs Away From Free Health Care For Undocumented Immigrants: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2025-26 revised budget proposal reneges on his signature policy to provide free health care coverage to all low-income undocumented immigrants as costs exceed expectations and the state anticipates challenging economic times ahead. The governor’s spending plan will be released this morning. Read more from the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Plus: More on California's budget shortfall.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Newsom Tells Cities To Ban Homeless Camping ‘Without Delay’: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday called on every local government in the state to adopt ordinances that restrict public camping. He provided a hypothetical model ordinance that lays out exactly what he’d like to see banned: camping in one place for more than three nights in a row, building semi-permanent structures on public property, and blocking streets or sidewalks. Read more from CalMatters, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Keep scrolling for more on the housing crisis.
Daily Edition for Monday, May 12, 2025
Water Safe To Drink Again After LA Wildfires: Tap water is now safe to drink in areas served by all nine water systems where damage from the firestorms in Altadena and Pacific Palisades had prompted “do not drink” notices, state regulators said Friday. The last water utility with such a notice, the Las Flores Water Co. in Altadena, was cleared Friday. Read more from the Los Angeles Times. Keep scrolling for more on the fires.
Daily Edition for Friday, May 9, 2025
SF Mayor Touts Funds To Address Homelessness: Mayor Daniel Lurie has raised $37.5 million from wealthy donors to address San Francisco’s homelessness and behavioral health crises, making good on one of his early pledges to supplement taxpayer funds by tapping private dollars to clean up streets and get more people into treatment and housing. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and Bloomberg.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 8, 2025
Stanford Medical School Grad Tapped For Surgeon General: President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he plans to nominate Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and graduate of Stanford Medical School, as the nation’s surgeon general. “Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ (Make America Healthy Again) credentials,” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Rite Aid Again Seeks Bankruptcy Protection: Rite Aid has put its Sacramento-area store leases on the market as the bankrupt pharmacy chain looks to offload its assets. The company plans to sell customer prescription files, inventory, and other assets. Stores will remain open for now, but the company isn’t buying new inventory, so bare shelves will likely become more common. Read more from the Sacramento Business Journal and AP.