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Latest California Healthline Stories

Bill Targeting Drug-Resistant Staph Infections Introduced in California Legislature

Sen. Elaine Alquist, who introduced the bill, highlighted the bill’s provisions for California Healthline, and Dr. Henry Chambers of San Francisco General Hospital and Debby Rogers of the California Hospital Association offered their insights.

Funding Crunch Could Stall Progress on Emergency Preparedness in California

Leigh Hall of the Sonoma County Department of Health Services, Mark Horton of the state Department of Public Health and Jeff Levi of the Trust for America’s Health spoke with California Healthline about funding for disaster preparedness.

Proposed Changes in Medicaid Rules Could Cost California Millions in Federal Funding

Officials from CMS, Medi-Cal, the hospital industry and patient advocacy groups spoke with California Healthline about how proposed changes to federal Medicaid rules could affect hospitals, patients and the state budget.

Study: California To Face Critical Shortage of Allied Health Care Workers by 2020

Abdi Soltani of the Campaign for College Opportunity, Jose Millan of the community college system and Marilyn Chow of Kaiser Permanente spoke with California Healthline about the lack of allied health workers and what can be done about it.

New Laws Aim To Build State’s Cord Blood Supply Through Public Donations, Education

Assembly member Anthony Portantino, Burt Lubin of the National Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation and David Carmel of Stemcyte spoke with California Healthline about new state laws on umbilical cord blood collection.

HMOs Make Few Gains in Patient Care in Annual State Report Card for Consumers

John Zweifler of the Office of the Patient Advocate and representatives from Aetna, the California Medical Association and Health Access spoke with California Healthline about OPA’s latest Healthcare Quality Report Card.

Waiting on Health Care Reform, Counties Struggle To Fund Kids’ Health Programs

Wendy Lazarus of the Children’s Partnership and Janie Tyre of the Santa Clara Family Health Plan spoke with California Healthline about the push for increased public funding of the state’s Children’s Health Initiatives.