California's community hospitals and ERs provide life-saving care to everyone - when they need it most. Now, health care reform is bringing new opportunities and new challenges to the California’s 430 hospitals and health systems.

  • California’s emergency rooms – there for you when you need us most

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    Sacramento Business Journal supplement, September 2010

    Hospital emergency rooms (ERs) are there for you and your family when you need them most. We’re there 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for every man, woman and child who enters our doors. Last year, California’s hospital emergency rooms cared for 11 million people with a variety of health conditions, including patients with severe chest pains, broken bones, those infected with the H1N1 flu virus, and children with high fevers and persistent coughs in the middle of the night.

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  • Health care reform brings new opportunities, new challenges

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    California’s community hospitals are on the frontlines, providing life-saving care 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. In 2009, hospitals in California provided more than $12 billion in unpaid care. The recent passage of national health care reform legislation presents new opportunities — and new challenges — to hospitals and other health care providers and the patients we serve.

  • ED Visits Up 23% in 10 Years

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    HealthLeaders Media, August 10, 2010

    There were nearly 117 million patient visits to the nation's emergency departments in 2007, a 23% increase over a decade, or 39.4 visits per 100 persons, according to a federal National Health Statistics Reports review.

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  • What Health Care Reform Means to California

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    What Californians Should Know

    The California Health Care Foundation offers a consumer-friendly breakdown of what health care reform means for Californians. It includes highlights of the new law, a timeline of when the changes happen and what coverage options, new costs and benefits are available for those with or without insurance.

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  • Editorial: State Pushes Ahead on Health Reform

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    Sacramento Bee, June 30, 2010

    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.


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  • How Reform Affects You

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    CNNMoney.com, June 2010

    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.

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  • Report on California’s Medi-Cal Program: Facts and Figures

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    California HealthCare Foundation, September 2009

    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.

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  • Road to Recovery: Health Care Jobs

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    Capitol Public Radio, January 29, 2010

    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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