Placer County Health Articles

Tahoe Forest Health System received awards in categories
for "Most Improved" and "Excellent Progress" by the Opioid Care Honor Roll for California.

Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in.

Now at 10833 Donner Pass Rd., Suite #102, the Tahoe Forest Center for Health conveniently houses all wellness classes, nutrition services and fitness, perinatal and lifestyle change programs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s big new experiment to push people with mental illness off the streets and into treatment starts this fall. Counties responsible for the rollout say it may end up being more modest than advertised.

Some independent California community hospitals have struggled with rising costs since the COVID-19 pandemic. Three declared bankruptcy this year, prompting the state to distribute interest-free loans.

Barton Health welcomes Audrey DaSilva, MD, pediatric specialist to Barton Pediatrics.

Neighbors to one of California’s biggest hazardous waste recyclers say they’re unfairly exposed to pollution, but can California afford to lose one of the few facilities that still takes toxic waste?

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and the United Farm Workers union say a recent death in a tomatillo field was due to heat, but a coroner’s report doesn’t back that up.

Two of the three troubled California hospitals are especially vital to their communities because they’re the only emergency providers in their rural counties. Health care chains could keep them afloat.

In an effort to provide healthy intravenous infusions in the comfort of one’s home, Modwella, short for “modern wellness,” has become a part of the local business landscape, with frontrunners Angela Harvey, a South Lake Tahoe local and registered nurse, …

Medi-Cal and other programs are testing food prescriptions that advocates say could improve chronic conditions, lower health care costs and reduce hunger.

Waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing before it’s piped directly to taps, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply. The state’s new draft rules are more than a decade in the making.

Almost half of the jobs for doctors and psychiatrists in California prisons are unfilled. Now, their union says it’s ready to strike over pay even as the state faces a steep budget deficit.

California still offers generous subsidies, but the rate hike signals that runaway health care costs are back after five years of low premium increases.

A workers comp study says one day above 100 degrees can cause 15 percent more accidents, costing workers and employers millions. A new advisory panel may help the state improve its work heat rules.

Children who are uninsured or have Medi-Cal can attend clinics, available in Auburn and Roseville, in July, August and September by appointment.

According to the district, Placer had 65 positive mosquito samples and 11 positive dead birds as of Monday. Positive detections have been confirmed in rural west Placer, west Roseville, Lincoln and Newcastle.

Many of the people who lost Medi-Cal are likely still eligible for health care coverage if they can get their paperwork to county offices in the next 90 days. Otherwise, the program that provides health insurance to low-income Californians just …

One California mental health crisis center grew its staff by almost 50 percent to handle that number of calls from people in need of counseling that it’s received since the state launched its 988 hotline a year ago.

A new ban on flavored tobacco products is accelerating a decline in nicotine tax revenue that funds California’s early childhood services. Some programs are already making cuts.