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Hospitals and ERs Being Forced to Make Very Difficult Choices

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California’s community hospitals and emergency rooms provide life-saving care to anyone needing it, despite their ability to pay for the health care services received. Last year, California's community hospitals provided more than $12 billion of uncompensated care.

Covering More Californians, But More Work Needs To Be Done

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Passage of health care reform will provide health insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans, including many of California’s 6.7 million uninsured. However, it is clear that more needs to be done.

Emergency Room Wait Times in Southern California

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Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2009

In Southern California -- where the posting of wait times has yet to be adopted -- wait times are even longer than they are nationally.

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California Hospitals Strain to Meet Seismic Deadline

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Modern Healthcare, August 1, 2009

Some California hospitals may have trouble meeting looming state seismic rebuild deadlines because of a soft credit market and deteriorating revenue, according to a member survey by the state hospital association.

Some 28% of hospitals responding to the survey said they have seen interest expenses rise in the first quarter of 2009, while 45% said their operating margins have declined this year, according to the survey of hospital chief financial officers conducted in April.

The Chronic Under-Funding of Medi-Cal and Medicare Programs

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California’s 430 hospitals and health systems are shouldering the financial burden of the government’s responsibility to provide care for some of our most vulnerable patients – seniors, the disabled, children and the under-insured. In fact, California’s hospitals provide billions dollars in uncompensated care annually, primarily due to the serious under-funding of the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs.

Many Emergency Rooms are Operating At or Over Capacity

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California’s hospital emergency rooms (ERs) see everyone who enters their doors, regardless of the health issue or one's ability to pay for services. In the last decade California has lost more than 70 community hospitals and emergency rooms. The remaining ERs are under ever-increasing pressure to care for a growing number of patients.

California Hospitals May Miss Retrofit Deadline

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San Francisco Chronicle, July 31 2009

A majority of California hospitals won't be able to meet state-mandated deadlines for seismic retrofitting because of the nation's credit crunch and their own deteriorating revenues.

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Survey: Calif. Hospitals Not Ready for Earthquake Retrofit Deadline

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KPBS Radio San Diego, July 31, 2009

A new survey finds most hospitals in California won't meet the state's 2013 deadline for seismic retrofitting. The state could force those hospitals to close their doors.

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Hospital Quake Upgrades Are the Next Fiscal Casualty

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San Francisco Business Times, August 7, 2009

A recent report by the California Hospital Association, based on an April survey of about 130 California hospital CFOs, warns that nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of them say their facilities won’t be able to get the capital needed to comply with 2013/2015 deadlines. CHA blames the ongoing credit crunch, “deteriorating hospital revenues caused in large part by governmental underfunding” of Medicare and Medi-Cal, devaluation of investments, increasing numbers of uninsured patients and other woes.

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Most CA Hospitals Assessed Under New System Can Delay Costly Earthquake Safety Repairs

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Sacramento Business Journal, August 7, 2009

Almost 200 California hospital buildings have won a break that allows them to put off earthquake safety repairs required under state law until 2030.

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