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More Must Be Done for Californians Facing Behavioral Health Conditions

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“Hospital emergency departments house homeless mental health patients for days — and sometimes weeks — while they wait for mental health bed capacity to open due to a severe shortage of inpatient and step-down unit beds.” — Sacramento County Grand Jury Investigative Report, June 2023  

Minimum Wage Bill Heads to Assembly; Amendments Fail to Address Cost Concerns 

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Last week, after multiple votes within a single day, a host of verbal concessions and future promises between legislators, and a few amendments, a bill that would raise the minimum wage for all health care workers in all settings in California to $25 an hour squeaked through the state Senate with the minimum number of votes needed. 

Thanks to You, Letter to Delay DSH Cuts Secures Broad Bipartisan Support

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Last month, 41 members of California’s congressional delegation signed on to a bipartisan letter to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives asking that they protect the state’s safety net hospitals from devastating federal cuts. 

Budget Enters Final Stretch; Need Your Help Now

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As California’s political leaders head into critical weeks of budget negotiations this year, hospitals are in the thick of the conversation, with key state lawmakers sharing the concern about the growing crisis in access to care yet differing about the path to address the problem.