Sacramento County Local News: Health

06/02/2023
WellSpace Health is a nonprofit organization in Sacramento, Placer and Amador counties. The organization provides comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, and supportive services to more than 110,000 low-income and underserved patients each year.

06/01/2023
The union-supported bill, introduced by Los Angeles Democratic Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, would require any “covered health care facility” to pay the new minimum wage to all workers on their premises, regardless of employer.

05/25/2023
The state Air Resources Board voted today to ban the substance known as chromium 6, giving platers several years to switch to an alternative the platers say won’t produce the same chrome shine.

05/23/2023
After unanimously clearing the Senate, a bill expanding first responders' access to workers’ comp for PTSD moves to the Assembly.

05/22/2023
Officials are proposing to increase reimbursement rates for some Medi-Cal providers, who say low pay rates prevent them from taking more patients.

05/19/2023
California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills. One would have made the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets more ambitious. Another would have allowed people to sue oil companies over health problems if they meet certain criteria.

05/19/2023
Safe staffing laws have worked in California — and can’t pass anywhere else.

05/17/2023
About 1,700 licensed child care centers in California—a quarter of the nearly 7,000 tested so far—have been serving drinking water with lead levels exceeding allowable limits, according to data that the nonprofit Environmental Working Group secured from the state.

05/17/2023
A new study casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades.

05/16/2023
To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

05/14/2023
Dr. Kristen M. George, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the department of public health sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine, is the first author on a new study on how high blood pressure in your 30s can lead to worse brain health in your 70s.

05/08/2023
It has taken nearly 13 years but a never finished office park in Sacramento’s Little Saigon neighborhood on Stockton Boulevard is now owned by WellSpace Health, which plans to spend $120 million to turn the vacant eyesore into a medical campus.

05/04/2023
Several hospitals have warned that they are struggling financially after the strains of the pandemic. A new loan program, if approved, could offer short-term relief.

05/03/2023
The latest legislative effort to give health care workers a wage that enables them to afford living in California is facing predictable headwinds, with industry lobbyists forecasting mass job cuts and higher costs to patients.

05/02/2023
In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed and the Legislature approved a tax penalty on Californians without health insurance. That money was supposed to be used to lower costs for those insured through Covered California, but that has only happened once.

04/17/2023
Kaiser Permanente has begun a $1 billion construction project that will include six floors of additional hospital space at its Roseville location. Additional beds, operating rooms, a pharmacy, and more will be included. The project is expected to be complete in 2027.

04/16/2023
Politicians must contend with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, but they also face demands from leaders of vital health care and transit services for more money to solve their fiscal woes.

04/13/2023
A plasma center is coming to Citrus Heights, making its home near the Sunrise Marketplace in the former Dimple Records building. Construction is largely complete and the business is waiting on licensing.

04/13/2023
A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of malnutrition, a trend that accelerated during the pandemic. Deaths attributed to malnutrition more than doubled from 2018 to 2022.

04/09/2023
The researchers analyzed surveys and MRI brain scans of 7,350 white children and nearly 1,800 Black children, ages 9 and 10. They found that the Black kids were more likely to show changes in their brains linked to conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder.