The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County. Orange County ...
In the lawsuit, Dr. Eunice Neeley claimed that her supervisor Stanton Glantz, the director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, sexually harassed her and that he refused to ...
Emergency room doctors at Corona Regional Medical Center have rescinded their contract with Chaudhuri's Community Medical Group of Corona, effective Dec. 29, arguing that the group has failed to pay ...
The researchers looked at the difference between delayed cord cutting and cord "milking" and found that babies who had been treated with the latter had higher scores on tests of cognition and language ...
Toxic polychlorinated biphenyls can cause anything from skin conditions to cancer — and they can be found in schools across the country. Across the country, tens of thousands of public schools could ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an ...
Unionized health care workers rally in Los Angeles in July 2022 in support of raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour for workers at some privately owned health facilities. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...
Physician assistant Daniel Speller, who works for a new nonprofit medical group called Healthcare in Action, treats a leg wound on Robert Smith, who is homeless in Long Beach. (Angela Hart/KFF Health ...
Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. More than two years after California’s surprise-billing law took effect, ...