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North Bay Leaders Discuss Workforce and Access

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who Hospital leaders from Hospital Council North Bay Section (Adventist, Kaiser, Providence, Santa Rosa Behavioral Health, Sonoma Valley, and Sutter)  Partnership HealthPlan (PHP) representatives  Cal Poly Humboldt representatives  What The North Bay Section gathered in person on March 13 to hear an […]

Central Valley CEOs Meet with Sen. Anna Caballero 

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Merced) and staff   Hospital CEOs within and near Sen. Caballero’s district in the Central Valley   What On March 18, Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Merced) met with hospital CEOs in the Central Valley portions of her district. The CEOs thanked […]

Honoring Women’s History Month by Advancing Maternity Care 

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Throughout California, hospital labor and delivery units are closing, casualties of a perfect storm of record-low birth rates, health care workforce shortages, and low Medi-Cal reimbursement. Closing maternity services is never an easy decision, and yet it’s one more and more hospital […]

Rural Health Care Symposium Highlights Hospital Financial Instability

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Millions of Californians are at risk of losing access to critical health care services as rural hospitals struggle financially. When a rural hospital closes, it is often the sole source of care for miles and miles so Californians living in these communities must travel farther for care. Those in poor health, seniors, and people experiencing poverty suffer the most.  

Coalition Forms to Address Rural Ambulance Services

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who Elected officials from northern California   Emergency medical professionals  County government representatives   What A new coalition of legislators, emergency medical professionals, county representatives, and Hospital Council staff met to discuss the prevention of more closures and reduction of rural ambulance services in […]

San Francisco Health Commission Hearing Discusses Dignity Health Hospital Acquisitions

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health  Dignity Health (Saint Mary’s Medical Center & Saint Francis Memorial Hospital)   San Francisco Health Commission  San Francisco Department of Health  What Recently, the San Francisco Health Commission concluded the second of two Proposition Q […]

New Resources Available to Engage Office of Health Care Affordability 

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.CHA released an alert earlier this month on the Office of Health Care Affordability’s staff-proposed 3% spending growth target and is sharing additional resources:  An alternative framework developed by CHA that outlines factors that must be considered for an achievable, sustainable spending […]

PHC Holds Symposium on Rural Maternity Care

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who Partnership HealthPlan of California  Representatives from hospitals and health care partners in partnership counties  California Health Care Foundation   CHA and Hospital Council staff What Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) held a one-day symposium on Feb. 12 about the lack of […]

Workforce Efforts Expanded in Monterey Bay   

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Who Santa Cruz Health Improvement Partnership  California State University (CSU), Monterey Bay  Community groups and stakeholders in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties  What Several efforts are underway in Monterey Bay to help build the health care workforce pipeline. In Santa […]