When Doretha left her eye checkup at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, she found housing support as a bonus. Thanks to a resource specialist, she received legal aid and found a new home.
It’s scarcely been three months since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law, but its anticipated $911 billion cuts in Medicaid spending over the next decade have already started reshaping how California thinks about spending. Consider:
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In late September, hospital leaders gathered in Lake Tahoe for the Hospital Council’s annual meeting, hosted in partnership with the Hospital Quality Institute. Before launching into a comprehensive program of patient safety and quality improvement discussions, the Hospital Council board convened. This annual event is a critical touchpoint for the board to plan for the year ahead — planning that has never been more important.
Earlier this month, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued draft guidelines that would actively disincentivize utilities from pursuing long-term undergrounding programs — a direction that is dangerously out of touch with the realities facing California’s businesses, communities, and hospitals.
Change is nothing new in health care. From technological innovations to shifting patient needs, hospitals have constant reasons to evolve. That ability to adapt is taking on a new urgency in the aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which only compounds the financial challenges hospitals face.
Join industry experts from California county mental health agencies, Psychiatric Health Facilities, behavioral health hospitals, and health systems to learn how they are successfully implementing a patient transfer model using innovative technology. Launched 18 months ago, the model has been instrumental in reducing barriers and fostering collaboration to expedite access to behavioral health care.
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After learning her pregnancy was high risk, Dana was anxious about her son’s upcoming birth — but the Family Birth Center helped her deliver a healthy baby boy.
Faced with growing challenges, rural hospitals across Northern California are finding innovative ways to do more with less. Rural hospitals are not a “nice to have” — they are essential to the strength, stability, and survival of California’s entire health care system. When a rural hospital closes, the ripple effects are immediate and far-reaching: