California Healthline
California Healthline is a free, daily publication featuring health care news, opinion and original reporting, designed to meet the information needs of busy health care professionals, decision makers, media organizations and consumers. It is independently published by Kaiser Health News (KHN) for the California Health Care Foundation. California Healthline is part of the Foundation’s commitment to important issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing in California.
-
Turnover ails a program that allows low-income people who are older or disabled to age in place. To attract new workers and improve retention, the state is paying caregivers to develop new skills. -
Workers who lose employer-based health coverage during a strike or lockout will have access to a full-subsidy plan through Covered California.
-
A Bay Area man described himself as “delirious” from the pain of a quickly spreading rash, but it took six telehealth appointments, one urgent care visit, and two emergency room trips before he was finally diagnosed and treated for monkeypox.
-
California’s homeless crisis is often understood through cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where the sheer number of people living unsheltered can quickly capsize the programs designed to help them. But in remote counties like Del Norte, California’s Project Homekey is having a tangible impact.
