Asian Health Center Tries Unconventional Approach to Counseling
By Sarah Kwon
Facing a dire shortage of bilingual and culturally attuned therapists, an Oakland community clinic serving Asian immigrants has trained staffers in a victim support unit to provide lay counseling.
Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?
By Sarah Kwon
Many women, especially Black women, have reported discrimination in maternity care, but expectant mothers lack tools to see where this happens. Funding and regulations to measure disparities have been slow in arriving, but some innovators are trying to fill the void.
Amid Lack of Accountability for Bias in Maternity Care, a California Family Seeks Justice
By Sarah Kwon
April Valentine’s family wants to know whether racism could have played a role in her death. A California Healthline analysis shows state regulators are ill-equipped to find discrimination in its many forms.
Listen: Valley Fever, Health Worker Pay, and Ambulance Rides
By Heidi de Marco and Stephanie O'Neill Patison
California Healthline journalists report on the intersection between drought and valley fever, a union’s campaign to boost the minimum wage for some health care workers, and an ambulance company’s decision to stop providing some nonemergency services.
Ambulance Company to Halt Some Rides in Southern Calif., Citing Low Medicaid Rates
By Sarah Kwon
American Medical Response, the largest U.S. ambulance company, is ending nonemergency transportation for 12 hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties, saying the state doesn’t pay enough to transport low-income patients. The state is pushing back.
Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize
By Sarah Kwon
In California and beyond, physician trainees working long hours for what in some states amounts to little more than minimum wage are organizing to seek better pay, benefits, and working conditions. More than 1,300 of them at three L.A. County public hospitals will vote May 30 on whether to strike.
Agotados por covid y por trabajar 80 horas a la semana, médicos residentes deciden sindicalizarse
By Sarah Kwon
Los residentes son médicos recién recibidos, que han terminado la carrera de medicina, y deben pasar de tres a siete años de formación en hospitales universitarios antes de poder ejercer de forma independiente. Ganan poco y trabajan mucho.
Apple Aims to Push More Patient Data to Doctors. But Who Can Gauge Its Impact on Health?
By Sarah Kwon
The Silicon Valley giant has been cryptic about its plan for the growing mound of health data available through its iPhones and watches. Health systems have experimented with the company’s health app, but it hasn’t yet become central to treatment.
Doctors Now Must Provide Patients Their Health Data, Online and On Demand
By Sarah Kwon
A new federal regulation makes it easy to get test results and see what your doctor is recording about your health. One downside: You might not understand what you read.
Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines
By Sarah Kwon
Some assisted living facilities, pharmacy chains and health care providers are luring new customers with covid shots.
