“For years, many women with common but urgent conditions like painful urinary tract infections or excessive bleeding in the aftermath of a miscarriage have faced a grim choice between waiting weeks for an appointment with their regular OB-GYN or braving hours in an […]
“Hoag doctors say that Providence’s drive to standardize treatment decisions across its chain — largely through a shared Epic electronic records system — often conflicts with their own judgment of best medical practices. And they recoil against restrictions on reproductive care they say […]
Action Alerts! SIGN PETITION NOW! Tell Governor Newsom to request the necessary waivers so federal funds can be used for a California single-payer plan! CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER! Urge them to co-sponsor AB 1400, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. […]
“I really think that medical students have realized increasingly if they want to create healthier patients, their responsibility reaches beyond the patient in front of them. … As students are recognizing the systemic nature and the social determinants of health, they realize you […]
“…some of the nation’s richest hospitals and health systems recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting the lion’s share of the federal health care bailout grants…. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a tinier […]
Action Alerts! SIGN PETITION NOW! Tell Governor Newsom to request the necessary waivers so federal funds can be used for a California single-payer plan! CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER! Urge them to co-sponsor AB 1400, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. […]
“Instead of tracking down the most vulnerable of the county’s roughly 68,000 eligible residents, community clinics and health care workers will be learning data systems…’I’m not quite sure what issue the state was trying to fix when they moved to this contract,’ said […]
“The tragedy is that a good part of this pain could have been avoided had there been a robust and functioning public health infrastructure in early 2020. That investment would have been a bargain, compared with what has been spent in the past […]
