What Kind of Health Care System Will We Have Left?
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Health care — one of our most fundamental needs as human beings — is at an inflection point.
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Every Hospital Has a Story, Because Every Patient Has a Story
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Every spring for the past 50 years, the nation has come together to recognize the special place hospitals hold in their communities — the lives they save, the families they support, the unimaginable challenges they help people face and conquer, year after year.
Medicaid Cuts Front and Center as Congress Returns from Recess
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Earlier this week, members of Congress returned to Washington, D.C., from their spring recess, with both the House of Representatives and the Senate laser-focused on delivering a 2026 domestic spending bill to President Donald Trump.
OHCA Cuts Will Create Real Pain for Real People
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On Tuesday, the state’s Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) Board voted 5-0 to drastically cut how much seven California hospitals can spend to care for patients; this comes on top of below-inflation spending cuts for all hospitals that OHCA had already put in place.
At the Heart of Every Hospital Are Volunteers
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In April 1974, President Richard Nixon signed Presidential Proclamation 4288, creating National Volunteer Week. Every year since then, each president has issued a new proclamation commemorating this celebration of those who give freely of their time to help others.
Emergency Care on Life Support
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A report released earlier this week by the well-respected and nonpartisan RAND Corp. underscores an alarming fact that hospital leaders have been saying for years: The viability of hospital-based emergency care is at risk after facing epidemics, a pandemic, increased patient acuity and complexity, and unsustainable declines in payment.
Fee Program Proposal Submitted to CMS, Approval Typically Takes Up to Nine Months
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Last week, and on schedule, the state Department of Health Care Services submitted the proposed model for the next iteration of the hospital fee program to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Making the Case to Protect Medicaid in the Nation’s Capital
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This week, California’s congressional representatives returned from their home districts to a gray and gloomy Washington, D.C.
OHCA Poised to Set Troubling Precedent, Throttle Health Care Access
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Time is running short.
As Federal Budget Talks Progress, New Resources Can Help Tell Hospitals’ Stories
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As Congress deliberates on stopgap measures to fund the government for 2025, the House of Representatives has passed a budget resolution for 2026 calling for $2 trillion in spending cuts, including $880 billion to come from programs overseen by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which — in addition to energy, the environment, and other issues — oversees Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California).
