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 ...

Best Large Healthcare Workplaces For Women 2025 List San Diego-based Scripps Health is the top large healthcare workplace for women, according to the “Fortune Best Workplaces for Women 2025” list.

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Sean Brown, recovering from methamphetamine addiction, lost his housing in the Eaton Fire in January. “I had nothing but the clothes on my back. It just brought back all of those feelings of being ...

When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training ...

A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care ...

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 ...

Jee Hyo Kim, a community health worker at Asian Health Services, received training in lay counseling to support people who have experienced trauma. (Loren Elliott for KFF Health News) In her first ...

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 ...

One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — Sonja Verdugo lost her husband to an opioid overdose last year. She regularly delivers medical supplies to people using drugs who are living — and dying — on the streets of Los Angeles.