Community hospital ERs are there when you need them most - providing safe, high quality care to millions of Californians. Now, our hospital ERs are facing unprecedented challenges and changes.
HealthCare.gov is a new consumer website that provides unprecedented transparency into the health care marketplace. Through HealthCare.gov, individuals will have more control over their health care as informed and empowered consumers.
The 90-day anniversary of the signing of the federal health care overhaul has come and gone. While budget matters have stalled in the California Legislature, lawmakers are making progress with legislation to implement the federal health reform.
What you need to know about how your family will benefit, what you'll really pay, whether you'll get better or worse care, and what could go wrong from here.
In 2007 there were 400 general acute care hospitals in California. The number declined 4 percent between 2001 and 2007. The number of licensed beds also declined by 4 percent from 2001 to 2007. During the same time, the state’s population increased by 9 percent.
Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the main source of health care insurance for 6.8 million people, or one in six Californians. During the 2008 – 09 fiscal year, it drew $27 billion in federal funds into the state’s health care system and accounted for 19 percent of General Fund spending.
Health care is one of the few sectors that has seen growth during the Great Recession. Now the Sacramento region is poised to add thousands of health care jobs in the coming years. We’ll meet a lab scientist working in this expanding field.
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