Latest California Healthline Stories
Central Valley Tries Anti-Obesity Tactics
The Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Project partners with community organizations and residents to challenge policies and environments that don’t support a healthy lifestyle.
Healthy Families Transition Concerns Heightened as Most Difficult Phases Start
The third and fourth phases of the Healthy Families transition — potentially the most difficult phases — begin this month amid questions about continuity of care and a lingering dispute over autism services.
California Businesses Welcome ACA Delay
California’s business community welcomed a one-year delay for an Affordable Care Act provision requiring large employers to provide health insurance for workers.
California Behind National Scope-of-Practice Curve, Nurse Practitioners Say
California regulations governing nurse practitioners are considered among “the most restrictive in the country,” according to a national trade group. The group is lobbying legislators in states weighing their scope-of-practice rules for non-physicians.
Pediatric Dental Coverage Revisited
An advisory committee meeting this week and a special Covered California board session in early August will consider 11th-hour adjustments for pediatric dental coverage in the state’s new health benefits exchange, which plans to open for business Oct. 1.
Treatment Trends Pushing Diabetic Amputations Down List of Options
Thousands of Californians undergo diabetes-related leg and foot amputations every year, but the number may be declining as new, aggressive treatments aimed at saving limbs are spreading and showing results.
Legislature Responds to Critical UC Report
State legislators, responding to a critical union report, called on University of California medical center officials to answer questions of capacity, access and quality of care with an onslaught of patients expected under the Affordable Care Act.
Licensing Home Health Care Workers May Not Be as Simple as It First Appears
Ken Erman of RX Staffing and Home Care in Sacramento, Jennifer Gabales of the California Association for Health Services at Home, Pat McGinnis of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform and Gary Passmore of the California Congress of Seniors spoke with California Healthline about the legislative effort to regulate home health workers in California.
Sorting Out Dozens of Health Care Bills — Some Passed, Some Pending
Like detritus carried down a swollen river after a big rainstorm, hundreds of bills were floated in Sacramento during the last session — including many dozens of health care-related bills. Here are some of the bigger ones that made it to dry land and a number of others that sunk.
Green House Grows New Model of Care
Supporters of the Green House Project — the first California outpost of which is about to open near Los Angeles — want to reinvent the traditional nursing home model, focusing on innovation, personal relationships and dignity.