Medi-Cal Enrollees: Here’s How to Verify Your Eligibility
If you are enrolled in Medi-Cal, as more than one-third of Californians are, make sure your county knows how to reach you, or you could lose your health coverage unnecessarily.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | May 10, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
If you are enrolled in Medi-Cal, as more than one-third of Californians are, make sure your county knows how to reach you, or you could lose your health coverage unnecessarily.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | May 2, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t imminent to kill themselves with drugs prescribed by a doctor.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | May 2, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
Sadé Lewis of Queens, New York, has suffered migraines since she was a kid, and as she started college, they got worse. A recent change in her insurance left the 27-year-old looking for a new neurologist. That’s when she found West 14 Street MedicalArts in New York.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured, Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal should keep an eye out for a yellow envelope in their mailbox over the next 14 months.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Apr 11, 2023 | Health Care, Local, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) released the following statement from President and CEO Sue Dunlap in response to today’s unprecedented and deeply harmful move to declare mifepristone unlawful, threatening the 22-year approval one of two medications used in the most common medication abortion regiment in the United States.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Apr 11, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
In a big blow to health insurance in the U.S., a federal judge has ruled that insurers no longer have to pay for preventive care services like cancer and heart disease screenings.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 28, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Local, Los Angeles, State, Valleys | 0
This past week, Governor Gavin Newsom took action to tackle major issues the state of California has been facing for years. Homelessness had always been a key problem and recent studies quoted by the LA Times found significant increases in the major hotspots, including skid row.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 28, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health, Health Care, Local | 0
Kern County Aging and Adult Services will be hosting a free webinar on Medicare coverage of preventive services on March 31 at 10 a.m. According to a release preventative care is not only to prevent illness but also to help in detecting conditions.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 21, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys, World & Nation | 0
Former President Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation has proved the gift that’s kept on giving for Black and Brown communities in America.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 14, 2023 | Bakersfield, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 14, 2023 | Bakersfield, Featured, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
This March marks the 36th commemoration of Women’s History Month, celebrating the vital role of women in American history. Because this year’s theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” I feel inspired to tell my mother’s story. More than any other narrative, her experiences profoundly impacted the trajectory of my life while connecting me to a larger story we should all celebrate this March – the women nurses who care for us, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Read Moreby Stefi Mar | Mar 7, 2023 | Bakersfield, Featured, Health, Health Care, Los Angeles, Valleys | 0
California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care.
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