John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care, stands in front of a window overlooking downtown Los Angeles on the 10th floor of the organization’s headquarters. Baackes will retire in January after nearly half a ...

This story also ran on The Sacramento Bee. It can be republished for free. Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room. Physical violence is less common, she said, ...

California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration status. It’s a significant expansion for an already massive ...

Sharissa Derricott outside of her parents’ home in Lawton, Okla., Derricott has had multiple surgeries and experiences side effects stemming from a hormone treatment given her as a child. (Nick Oxford ...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money ...

Aniya was ready to leave. She was dressed in a fuzzy white onesie her mother had packed for her first trip home. Yet Aniya’s family had more questions than answers as they cradled the newborn out of ...

Maurice Clark is homeless on the streets of Las Vegas. He took a survey that should help him get into housing, but he’s waiting. (Angela Hart/KFF Health News) LAS VEGAS — Maurice Clark huddled in his ...

This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It can be republished for free. But Milam was haunted by a family history of cancer, including his mother’s death from stomach cancer at 54. So, at age ...

Early in his first quarter at the University of California-Davis, Ryan Manriquez realized he needed help. A combination of pressures — avoiding covid-19, enduring a breakup, dealing with a disability, ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. California’s cities and counties will be barred from adopting soda taxes for ...

SAN DIEGO — Sporting a bright smile and the polished Super Bowl ring he won as a star NFL player in the late 1980s, Craig McEwen doesn’t fit the archetype of someone teetering on the brink of ...