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

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 COVID-19 is decimating our fragile, unfunded and outdated safety net, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Citrus Heights might have been the least walkable city in the Sacramento region, and it faced significant challenges to changing that status. But with the help of the California Healthy ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 … ...

With escalating obesity rates and growing interest in “eating local,” many schools are looking to add their schoolyard harvest to cafeteria lunches. But school administrators may be wary of the ...

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 ...