This national nonprofit organization provides a variety of services to children and adults with cerebral palsy. The organization promotes, advocates, and supports the inclusion, independence, and empowerment of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
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Covered California Pushes for Better Health Care as Federal Spending Cuts Loom
05/01/2025Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind.
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California Sent Investigators to ICE Facilities. They Found More Detainees, and Health Care Gaps
04/29/2025A California law empowers state investigators to check on conditions at ICE detention centers. A new report raises concerns about health care inside them.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner this week confirmed the county’s first overdose death due to carfentanil, a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl.A 39-year-old man was found dead last week with fake M30 pills made to look like …
On April 22, El Camino Health broke ground on the El Camino Health Rehabilitation Hospital, an inpatient rehabilitation center in Sunnyvale, CA. Officials with the health system said it will offer a “safe and therapeutic environment” for individuals facing serious …
A Cupertino assisted living facility is one step closer to being built after years of delays — but not as originally planned.
The Cupertino Planning Commission unanimously recommended changes Tuesday to an older adult assisted living facility as part of …
To save money, San Jose leaders cut a critical fire department program last year that tracked the storage of addictive painkillers for cross-trained firefighter paramedics. Nine months later, the theft of opioids from nearly two dozen fire stations has raised …
Almost half a year into the dispute, eight striking Kaiser mental health workers wrapped up a hunger strike as broken-off negotiations were set to resume.
Homes for people struggling with mental illness or recovering from substance use have long flown under Santa Clara County’s radar with substandard conditions and little to no accountability. The county is attempting to right some of those wrongs, starting with …
An upcoming mental health inpatient facility is set to treat dozens of teens and adults in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood, though nearby residents are raising concerns.
The San Jose Planning Commission unanimously approved plans March 26 for the conversion …
With the recent rise of measles cases in areas across the U.S., Bay Area health officials are urging everyone to get the measles vaccination if they are not sure if they have been vaccinated, or if they did not have …
City leaders are set to discuss a fee program that would allow the San Jose Fire Department’s emergency medical services to collect payments from people they treat.
Fire Chief Robert Sapien said San Jose needs to join the 23 fire …
Scores of Santa Clara County hospital and health lab workers are on strike as the county scrambles to relaunch lifesaving care at a long-depleted East San Jose hospital.
Nearly 200 clinical lab scientists, microbiologists, medical laboratory technicians and other workers …