KP Health Workers Plan Large Strike Next Week: More than 31,000 union nurses and hospital staff across several states, including California, have sent a strike notice to Kaiser Permanente indicating ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a suite of privacy protection bills for transgender patients amid continuing threats by the Trump administration. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be ...

Jacob Sweidan, a pediatrician in Southern California, has resumed offering telehealth visits after noticing a drop-off in patient visits amid ramped-up immigration enforcement. (Jeff Gritchen/Orange ...

Lourdes Bernis, a community health worker who teaches about depression and anxiety, leads a discussion on Latino health issues during a neighborhood association meeting. The state has eliminated an ...

Anthony Willis, who has an apartment on Skid Row, spends most of his time on the streets. He says he’s addicted to crack and alcohol. (Angela Hart/KFF Health News) LOS ANGELES — Inside a bright new ...

Florence Owens, an In-Home Supportive Services aide, brings Carol Crooks her morning coffee in Oakland. Proposed Medicaid cuts could endanger funding for aides such as Owens. (Ronnie Cohen for KFF ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at East Los Angeles College on Feb. 26 in Monterey Park, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on April 16 in Ceres, near Modesto. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep ...

SACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and ...

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted ads. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It ...