In California, nearly 2 million people depend on Covered California for health care. The need is such that enrollment rose ...

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial ...

As fires burn across Southern California, they are not only affecting their immediate communities. They’re also reigniting the fear and trauma left behind from January’s devastation, compounding the ...

One third of all Californians and nearly half of California children depend on Medi-Cal, California’s public health coverage program, for health care. A majority of those enrolled in Medi-Cal are ...

We need to invest in the safety-net institutions that serve and support our most vulnerable now and during times of crisis. COVID-19 is decimating our fragile, unfunded and outdated safety net, and ...

While the number of Californians with health coverage has surged, the state is struggling to provide enough physicians to care for them. Photo credit: istockphotos.com When Paul Lyons opened a primary ...

Our organization, AltaMed Health Services, has spent the past several years increasing civic participation in underserved areas of Los Angeles through integrated voter engagement. Because the ...

Photo credit: iStock Gavin Newsom kicked off his term as governor by unveiling several health care proposals on his first day in office—a welcome development for the many California residents who, ...

Now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, public health experts and immigrant advocates are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators to fulfill a budget proposal that would expand Medi-Cal ...

Advocates say a plan to turn a grassy lot in Oxnard into a port storage facility is part of a pattern of disregarding poor communities living near California’s ports. These neighborhoods are … ...

In her work as a “promotora,” or community health worker, Miranda knows that violence against pregnant women and new mothers is all too common. At the San Jose nonprofit she volunteers for, Next Door ...