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Even though the state will bring in billions of dollars in surplus revenue this year, its ability to spend those additional dollars may be more limited than it has been for many years. This unique challenge facing the Legislature and administration as they craft the 2022-23 state budget is being driven by a voter-approved requirement in the state Constitution.
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With tens of thousands of gun deaths per year nationwide, it often feels like it’s just a matter of time before the wheel of tragedy stops close to home.
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Our state is home to nearly 11 million immigrants, more than any other in the nation, and immigrants account for 28% of California’s population. Policies that sow fear or confusion among our immigrant communities are antithetical and detrimental to the mission of hospitals: Caring for the sick and healing the injured, regardless of a patient’s ethnicity or citizenship status.
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If California’s legislative session — which runs from January through the end of September — can be looked at as a nine-inning baseball game, we’re just weeks away from the middle three innings. That means legislative priorities are coming into sharper focus and strategy is beginning to turn to tactics.
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On Tuesday, state senators rejected an effort to end California’s state of emergency, a status that has been in place for more than two years as the battle against COVID-19 has persisted.
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“This is not just a public health crisis; it is a crisis that will touch every sector, so every sector and every individual must be involved in the fight.”
– World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, March 11, 2020
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It’s been two months since California’s Legislature convened to kick off the 2022 session, and CHA has worked diligently to ensure the top priorities for California hospitals are at the forefront for legislators and the governor’s office.
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.There are two Californias when it comes to health care. In one, patients and communities are well-served by their health care system. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other providers are easily accessible, offer a wide variety of services at multiple locations, and deliver […]
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In the heart of Philadelphia, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey, sits the nation’s oldest hospital, built more than two decades before the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Hospital holds many of health care’s artistic treasures: the famous painting “Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple,” and portraits of pioneers like Dr. Benjamin Rush, surgeon general of the Continental Army, and Dr. Philip Syng Physick, known as the father of American surgery. The hospital’s main floor is also home to Modern Healthcare’s gallery of the Health Care Hall of Fame, on display since the first honorees were inducted in 1988.
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While the number of COVID-19 cases in California is beginning to taper on the heels of the largest surge since the pandemic began, hospitals continue to see high numbers of patients needing care — not unexpected since hospitalizations typically lag cases by about two weeks, and the backlog of patients needing other types of care remains long.
