Explore The Seashore With Shield HealthCare! The western edge of California has some of the most spectacular coastline in the world. The Golden State is graced with hundreds of miles beautiful beaches and stunning seashore. I, like so many, love a day at the beach with family and friends, but because of my mobility challenges… Continue reading Accessible Coastline – Part 1: California

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If you live in one of the rural communities tucked into the forested hillsides along the Oregon-California border and need serious medical care, you’ll probably wind up at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center. It serves about nine counties on either side of the border. It is one of three hospitals Asante owns in the region.… Continue reading Delta Cutting ‘Like a Buzzsaw’ Through Oregon-California Border Counties

Watch our video above, and read on for more information. What is Medi-Cal RX? In January of 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order which requires the state to move pharmacy benefits out of Medi-Cal Managed Care and back into Medi-Cal Fee-for-Service by January 1,2021. “Medi-Cal Rx” is the name of this program.… Continue reading Medi-Cal Rx: Understanding the Upcoming Changes

Premiums for health plans sold through Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act insurance exchange, will rise an average of 0.6% next year — the smallest hike since it started providing coverage in 2014, the agency announced Tuesday. The modest increase follows an average statewide increase of 0.8% on coverage that started in January of this year,… Continue reading Covered California Announces Record-Low Rate Hike for 2021

Image of the Route 66 western terminus at the Santa Monica Pier, by Christian Beiwinkel on Wikimedia Commons Staying at home “is not a permanent state,” California’s governor says. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday night ordered California’s almost 40 million residents to stay home except for essential trips, extending similar restrictions statewide that Bay Area counties had previously… Continue reading California Governor Orders All Residents to Stay Home

This article explores the maze of requirements that families of children with disabling health conditions must go through to obtain medical equipment.

Patient Advocacy Or Political Ploy? Union, Industry Square Off Over Dialysis Initiative – By David Tuller and Harriet Rowan for California Healthline This year, California dialysis clinics — and their profits — are in a powerful union’s crosshairs. On Nov. 6, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West union hopes to deliver a stinging blow with a… Continue reading Patient Advocacy Or Political Ploy? Union, Industry Square Off Over Dialysis Initiative

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It turns out that California and the Trump administration do agree on at least one thing: Don’t mess with coffee. Trump’s hand-picked food and drug czar, Scott Gottlieb, said Wednesday that he “strongly supports” a proposal by officials in Sacramento to exempt the morning elixir from the state’s list of known cancer-causing compounds despite… Continue reading Cancer, Schmancer. In California, Coffee Is King