A truck driver’s battle over bills for emergency care and lab tests shines a spotlight on failure of nonprofit hospitals to offer uninsured patients “charity care.”
Community & Public Health
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Direct Primary Care allows patients to pay a membership fee for basic health services, but it does not include coverage for major medical situations
Uninsured Californians have traditionally had few options when a mental health crisis strikes, but advocates throughout the state are working to change that
The bill would bring $2 million to an already-established state fund for valley fever vaccine research and create guidelines for how local, state and federal agencies report cases.
Valley fever killed six residents in 2016 and infected 1,905 others, a 62 percent surge over the number infected the year prior.
Experts in social behavior and public health focus on raising the public's valley fever awareness.
State senators will vote on a bill to enhance valley fever reporting guidelines and public outreach this week, to raise public awareness of valley fever in the southwestern United States.
The California legislature approved a Wednesday bill requiring the public health department to develop public outreach programs for valley fever, a respiratory disease endemic to Kern County.
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Two significant obstacles have stood in the way of developing a meaningful Valley fever awareness campaign: money and a lack of a celebrity to champion the cause.