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California Healthline is a complimentary daily news source that provides updates on health care topics, insights, and original articles, catering to the needs of busy health care professionals, decision-makers, media outlets, and the general public. This publication is produced independently by Kaiser Health News (KHN) for the California Health Care Foundation. It reflects the Foundation's dedication to addressing significant issues related to health care policy, delivery, and funding within California. KHN is a nonprofit news organization focused on comprehensive reporting about health care policy, politics, and business. It covers the functioning and challenges of the health care system, including hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurers, governments, and consumers. KHN oversees the editorial direction of California Healthline and operates as an independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit located in Menlo Park, California.

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Mental Health and Substance Misuse Treatment Is Increasingly a Video Chat or Phone Call Away - California Healthline

6 days ago | californiahealthline.org

More Californians are getting mental health or substance use disorder treatment online or over the phone than in person, according to a KFF Health News analysis of UCLA’s latest California Health Interview Survey. But the telehealth experience isn’t always positive.
A California Lawmaker Leans Into Her Medical Training in Fight for Health Safety Net

1 week ago | californiahealthline.org | Christine Mai Duc

SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California’s sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may need to be dialed back after Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his latest budget, which could reflect a multibillion-dollar deficit.
Cuando los abuelos ya no te reconocen

2 weeks ago | californiahealthline.org | Paula Span

Ocurrió hace más de una década, pero el momento permanece en su memoria. Sara Stewart conversaba con su madre, Barbara Cole, entonces de 86 años, en el comedor de su casa de Bar Harbor, en Maine. Stewart, abogada tenía en ese momento 59 años y estaba haciendo una de sus largas visitas desde fuera del estado. Dos o tres años antes, Cole había comenzado a mostrar signos preocupantes de demencia, probablemente debido a una serie de pequeños derrames cerebrales.
El Medi-Cal bajo amenaza: a quién cubre y qué se recortaría

3 weeks ago | californiahealthline.org | Don Thompson

SACRAMENTO, California. — Medi-Cal, el complejo programa de Medicaid de California, con un valor de $174.6 mil millones, ofrece seguro de salud a casi 15 millones de residentes con bajos ingresos y discapacidades. California inscribe al doble de personas que Nueva York y a más del triple que Texas, los dos estados con el mayor número de participantes en Medicaid después de California.
Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities

3 weeks ago | californiahealthline.org | Paula Span

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Peters said. Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her midmorning. “She wasn’t being toileted, so her pants would be soaked,” said Peters, 69, a retired nurse-practitioner in Bloomington, Minnesota. “They didn’t give her water.
Tácticas migratorias de Trump obstaculizan esfuerzos para evitar una pandemia de gripe aviar, dicen investigadores

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Amy Maxmen

Las agresivas tácticas de deportación han aterrorizado a los trabajadores agrícolas, que son el centro de la estrategia nacional contra la gripe aviar, según afirman trabajadores de salud pública. Los trabajadores de las industrias láctea y avícola han representado la mayoría de los casos de gripe aviar en el país, y prevenir y detectar los casos entre ellos es clave para evitar una pandemia.
Families of Transgender Youth No Longer View Colorado as a Haven for Gender-Affirming Care

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Rae Ellen Bichell |Oona Zenda

In recent years, states across the Mountain West have passed laws that limit doctors from providing transgender children with certain kinds of gender-affirming care, from prohibitions on surgery to bans on puberty blockers and hormones. Colorado families say their state was a haven for those health services for a long time, but following executive orders from the Trump administration, even hospitals in Colorado limited the care they offer for trans patients under age 19.
Federal Judge Blocks Mandate on Nursing Home Staffing

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Tarena Lofton

April 8, 2025 Article HTML We encourage organizations to republish our content, free of charge. Here’s what we ask: You must credit us as the original publisher, with a hyperlink to our californiahealthline.org site. If possible, please include the original author(s) and “California Healthline” in the byline.
This Bill Aims To Help Firefighters With Cancer. Getting It Passed Is Just the Beginning.

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Mark Kreidler

As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim: Provide federal assistance to first responders diagnosed with service-related cancer. The Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act is considered crucial by its supporters, with climate change fueling an increase in wildfire frequency and firefighting by the World Health Organization.
Public Health Risks of Urban Wildfire Smoke Prompt Push for More Monitoring

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Katharine Gammon

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burning homes, buildings, and cars, but it was unclear how much risk the public faced. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers.