Tag: Medi-Cal
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Health Center Trains, Recruits Doctors To Serve Poor Amid Growing Shortage
A clinic in San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood provides numerous health and support services with a commitment to serving uninsured and low-income residents.
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States Moves Forward On Study Of Language Services For Non-English Speaking Patients
It has taken more than two years, but California is finally making some progress toward improving medical interpretation services for patients who don’t speak English.
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Coalition Wants 100% Enrollment in Safety Net Programs by 2020
By Megan Burks San Diego labor, faith and community groups gathered Saturday at the County Administration Center to demand the county achieve 100 percent enrollment in federal social safety-net programs by 2020. The group calls itself the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition and it’s drawing on an October study that says San Diego County has failed to…
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Advocates Push to Expand California Welfare Program
By Kenny Goldberg First step children. Next step adults. That’s what advocates of the poor say after state lawmakers recently agreed to extend Medi-Cal benefits to the children of immigrants who are living here illegally. Lawmakers have appropriated $40 million in the new state budget to give Medi-Cal coverage to some 170,000 immigrant children. Advocates…
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Dental Program for Low-Income Californians Gains Patients While Losing Dentists
By Kenny Goldberg California’s dental program for the poor is falling short. A new state review of the Denti-Cal program, shows between 2009 and 2014, the number of children enrolled in the Denti-Cal program increased by nearly 40 percent. But the number of dentists who treated Denti-Cal patients decreased by almost 14 percent. Denti-Cal pays…