A protest Wednesday at the Capitol Building will highlight proposed legislation to reverse cuts to Medi-Cal provider rates. In 2011 during a bleak bud...
Flurry of Bills Before Legislative Deadline
The deadline is Friday for introducing bills in the California Legislature. Several health-related bills have gotten in under the wire in Sacramento...
Superbug Outbreak Highlights Hospital Infection Concerns Across U.S.
An outbreak of a potentially deadly bacterial infection at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center that was linked to medical endoscopes has highlig...
LAO Report: State Could Lose $1 Billion
California stands to lose about $1 billion in federal health care funding through potential elimination of the current managed care organization tax i...
DPH Fines 10 California Hospitals $700K for Adverse Events
On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced that it has fined 10 hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars for medical errors ...
Patient Satisfaction Among Low-Income Patients on the Rise, Survey Says
More than half of Medi-Cal and other low-income patients rated their care as very good or excellent, a gain of about five percentage points from 2011 ...
February 10, 2015 Update
Mental Health Services Act: Please see the attached memo from the DHLF federal advocate, Charity Bracy, regarding funding availability via the Menta...
2016 DHLF Tracked Legislation
District Hospital Leadership Forum – Legislative Status Report February 6, 2016. Feb 6, 2016 report &...
Analyst's Office Cites 'Shortcomings' in Mental Health Hospitals' Administration
The Legislative Analyst’s Office found a number of budgeting inefficiencies and question marks about policies and procedures in its evaluation o...
DHLF State Budget Update
State Budget: Today the Governor released his proposed 2015-16 state budget. An overall summary follows this update, but unlike prior years, there i...