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Veteran California Journalists Confront Challenges of Coronavirus Beat
Jenny Gold is one of several reporters at California Healthline / Kaiser Health News who focus almost exclusively on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Michael Short On March 18, Jenny...
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California Mobilizes for a Health Care Surge
Medical personnel at a testing site in Lake Elsinore, California, on March 22, 2020. Photo: Bob Riha Jr. / Getty Images The spread of the novel coronavirus has upended life across the Golden State. On...
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COVID-19 Survey Shows Californians’ Access to Care and Desire for Testing
Health care workers from Riverside University Health Systems screen a patient for coronavirus at a drive-through testing site in Lake Elsinore, California. Photo: Bob Riha Jr. / Getty Images To help...
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Finding the Right Words About COVID-19
Photo: Jose Luis Pelaez / Getty Images Health care organizations in California and around the US are working incredibly hard to prepare for or respond to a surge of patients suffering from symptoms...
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Why Isn’t the Country Getting the Physicians We Need?
Photo: Leslie Walker Every year on the third Friday in March, tens of thousands of graduating medical students find out where they will continue their training by working as medical residents. The US...
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The Affordable Care Act Turns 10
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), right, holds a photo during a July 9, 2019, news conference on protections for people with preexisting conditions who would be affected if the ACA is struck...
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The Role of Palliative Care in a COVID-19 Pandemic
Staff in protective gear tend to an elderly COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Poliambulanza hospital in Brescia, Italy. Photo: Claudio Furlan / LaPresse via ZUMA Press In this time of the...
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Ten Years After: The ACA’s Success in Five Charts
At a historic signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama approves the Affordable Care Act surrounded by congressional and administration officials,...
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Sacrifices Californians Make Together to Slow Spread of Coronavirus Are Worth It
A Los Angeles elementary school that was shut down to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease. Photo: Jevone Moore / Image of Sport via AP This article was published today...
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America’s Head Count Begins
A Census 2020 banner is marched down a San Francisco street during the Chinese New Year Parade in February. Photo: Yichuan Cao / Sipa USA / AP Images The federal government is inviting American...
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US Supreme Court Agrees to Review Affordable Care Act — for the Third Time
Affordable Care Act supporters demonstrated in front of the US Supreme Court after the court upheld the law in 2015. Photo: Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call via AP Images The fate of the Affordable Care Act...
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Ever-Rising Health Costs Worsen California’s Coronavirus Threat
As California and the nation prepare for the spread of the new coronavirus disease known as COVID-19, it is important to be reminded of another significant threat to the health of our people: the high...
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Addressing Homelessness Is High on Governor Newsom’s Agenda
California Governor Gavin Newsom on January 16, 2020, visits an Oakland lot filled with Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers to be used as temporary housing for people experiencing...
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Sacramento Briefing Explores Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health in...
Alice Washington told the CHCF Sacramento briefing that the focus on her serious mental illness de-prioritized her physical health care. Integrated care helped put her life back into balance. Photo:...
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Hmong Community Planted Spiritual Roots in Merced Hospital
Xia Vang, a Hmong shaman who was certified by Mercy Medical Center, holds some of the tools she uses in Hmong healing ceremonies. Photo: Dignity Health This is the second in a series of articles that...
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Public Support for Safety Net Remains Strong Despite Policy Threats
Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland Recent polling shows that health care continues to be top of mind for most Americans. A survey conducted by Politico and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
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Twenty Years in the Making: CHCF’s Funding of Health Care Journalism
For-profit journalism has undergone seismic changes to its business model during the last 15 years. The steady stream of advertising revenue that made the industry profitable for so long is now gone....
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Supporting the Nontraditional Workforce: Community Health Workers and Promotores
Community health worker Rosie Traversi of West County Health Centers talks to a man in Guerneville, California. Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland This article was originally published on February 13,...
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Californians Want Action on Health Care Costs and Access to Mental Health...
California enters a new decade facing significant uncertainty and change in its health care system. The state is actively considering the merits and feasibility of moving toward a single-payer system....
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Help Prevent the Public Charge Rule’s Chilling Effect
Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland On January 27, the US Supreme Court lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the new public charge rule proposed by the Department of...
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