Amid increasingly frequent natural disasters, several states have turned to registries to prioritize help for vulnerable ...

Health clinics that serve more than 1.1 million patients up and down the San Joaquin Valley are bracing for the prospect of budget cuts and other fallout in the wake of the passage of President Donald ...

A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more ...

Opioid settlement funds, HIV spending, Medicare doc pay, Medicaid and SNAP cuts, cancer screening, veteran health, and more.

As the state embarks on a significant overhaul, this report captures the current state of behavioral health data collection. See how it currently measures quality and outcomes, as well as future ...

California Creates Housing Agency: After years of soaring rents, increasingly out-of-reach home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis that touches every corner of the state, California is finally ...

Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services By Angela Hart May 19, 2025 About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to ...

State officials want to use artificial intelligence to translate public health care and social services documents and websites, which they say will speed up translations, save money, and improve ...

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

California is collecting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in tax penalties from uninsured residents. The state was supposed to use the money to help lower costs for Californians who couldn’t ...

The Trump administration is moving to end the “Housing First” approach despite warnings from providers and homelessness experts that the shift won’t work. But with homelessness rising, President ...

Disability rights advocates and two individuals with disabilities sued Tuesday to overturn the state's physician-assisted death law, arguing it is unconstitutional, violates the Americans with ...