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california
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Calif. finds 3,500 nurses were disciplined elsewhere
California’s nursing board has confirmed what fans of Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber’s disciplined caregivers series for ProPublica and the…
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Vaccine waivers contribute to outbreak
In the wake of California’s public health director’s declaration that whooping cough has reached epidemic status, California Watch’s Christina Jewett…
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Calif. dental care crisis could get worse
Laurie Udesky, writing for The New York Times, has found that that pediatric dental care in the state has reached…
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Warehouses are ‘magnets for pollution’
Mira Loma, a town east of Los Angeles that’s become home to distribution centers and warehouses for some of the…
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Residents not warned of nursing home foreclosures
Writing for The New York Times, Laurie Udesky reports that despite significant rates of foreclosures, California nursing homes are not…
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Calif. nursing homes cut staff despite public money
CaliforniaWatch’s Christina Jewett and Agustin Armendariz put some serious time into an investigation of the results of a 2004 law…
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Officials struggle with timing of outbreak alerts
The Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight‘s Ryan Sabalow put together a local take on ongoing inconsistencies in how local health departments…
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AHCJ members among national contest winners
It’s awards season and we’re happy to report that AHCJ members are winning a number of national awards. What’s listed…
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Latino diabetes boom caused by range of factors
The Ventura County Star‘s Kim Lamb Gregory looked into the high rate of Type 2 diabetes among the local Latino…
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Are insurers to blame for rising costs?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead and Victoria Colliver use the recent furor over insurer Anthem’s rate hikes to explore…