As one of the fastest growing regions of California, the San Joaquin Valley’s persistent shortage of health care providers is creating a public health crisis with no easy solutions in sight. Fully addressing the situation will require a multi-pronged strategy, including expanding medical school opportunities in the Valley and providing...
As lawn signs pop up like wildflowers around the city, we are reminded that another mayor’s race approaches. Take note: This race will sketch out the city’s path forward, shape our fiscal strategy, set forth a business development plan, address the problems of our homeless population, and, hopefully, recognize that...
We live in a political world today where indecision and inaction echo within the halls of Congress and State Capitols across America. The biggest risks to our financial security in retirement, health care expenses and long-term care costs, continue to be ignored by elected officials and those who seek to...
State of Reform is a stakeholder-driven initiative that tries to bridge the gap between the worlds of health care and health policy. We try to develop vehicles for the dissemination of information, case studies, best practices, strategic insight, and lessons learned.
Times Argus, Central City, Kentucky (NAPSI)—If you or someone you love is one of the millions of Americans with a chronic disease or a life-threatening condition, pharmaceutical manufacturers and their partners offer you a gift of hope this holiday season. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are criticized as Scrooge or the Grinch in...
The Community Access National Network, otherwise known as CANN, today appointed a national commission to take a thorough and candid review of the 340B Drug Pricing Program (hereafter referred to as 340B Program), and make specific recommendations to Congress on how and in what ways the program should be strengthened....
Hospitalizations for seniors can be devastating, both financially and emotionally. But what’s worse is having to return to the hospital shortly after discharge – especially if the readmission could have been prevented. All too often, this is precisely what happens: Roughly one in five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital...
Legacy Health Endowment (LHE) has teamed up with Covenant Care at Home (CCH), a nonprofit healthcare provider, to fund a critical new program to help senior citizens avoid premature placement or re-entry into hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities. With a $110,000 grant from LHE, CCH is a launching a...
Turlock Unified School District’s first-ever mental health practitioners are already making a difference in students’ lives this school year, meeting the emotional and psychological needs of the district’s school sites. Jennifer Carlsen and Darrah Wilson were introduced at the Feb. 20 Board of Trustees meeting as TUSD’s new Student Support...
Legacy Health Endowment (LHE) has teamed up with Turlock Pregnancy and Health Center (TPHC), a faith-based nonprofit free clinic, to fund a critical program to help people in need access free testing and treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). With a $100,000 grant from LHE, TPHC is launching a free...
