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Active Shooter Planning and Response in a Health Care Setting

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Active shooter events in a health care setting present unique challenges: a potentially large vulnerable patient population, hazardous materials (including infectious disease), locked units, special challenges (such as weapons and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines (these machines contain large magnets which can cause issues with firearms, or remove it from the hands of law enforcement), as well as caregivers who can respond to treat victims.

Key Messages: Protecting Maternity Services in California

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Approximately 3 million Californians live in areas with either no labor and delivery (L&D) hospital units or units vulnerable to closing. When an L&D hospital unit closes, moms and babies experience worse health outcomes. 

Survey Spotlights Care Access Challenges Facing Central Valley Residents

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What’s happening: The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) convened health care leaders and community organizations in Fresno on May 15 to discuss the results from the 2024 Central Valley Health Policy Survey. What else to know: The survey gathered responses from more than 1,500 residents in five Central Valley counties on the challenges they face...

Register Now for Virtual Behavioral Health Care Symposium

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On Dec. 7-8 from 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (PT), CHA will host the virtual Behavioral Health Care Symposium, an annual event focused on behavioral health care policy and pressing issues, designed to help turn challenges into opportunities. 

House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Telehealth

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On March 2, the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health held a virtual hearing on The Future of Telehealth: How COVID-19 is Changing the Delivery of Virtual Care. The subcommittee is chaired by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18) with Reps. Matsui (CA-6), Cardenas (CA-29), Ruiz (CA-36) and Barragan (CA-44) among its members.