Four years later, providers say electronic health records aren’t the time and money saver they hoped for — but, they added, electronic records do improve the quality of care.
Author: Callie Shanafelt
Health care reform will bring big changes to community clinics that treat the poor and uninsured. For the first time, many of their patients will be eligible for insurance and reimbursements will eventually replace grant funding for clinics. Unfortunately, patients may not know understand what kind of assistance they can get or know how to navigate the new insurance exchange.
Undocumented immigrants and lawfully present immigrants who’ve been here less than five years are excluded from health care reform. That may put community clinics that treat the poor in a difficult financial position – and make getting care harder for immigrants.
The West County Health Center is the wave of the health care future, says ACA co-author Representative George Miller.
Every Friday at 1 PM Pastor Henry Washington meets other Richmond community members concerned about gun-violence at his church—The Garden of Peace Ministries. They walk around the parts of Richmond most devastated by violence, handing out anti-violence literature and talking with residents. He is working as part of a hands-on effort to stop the shooting in the city, a program known as Ceasefire, the city’s latest effort to stop gun violence.
By Callie Shanafelt
Community clinics are turning technologically savvy. Spurred on by federal funds, they are adopting electronic health records at rates exceeded only by HMOs.
Overweight children and adolescents are contending with a problem that used to be rare in young people. They are at least twice as likely to have gallstones as their counterparts who are not overweight or obese.
A common assumption is that senior homeowners are in the best position to weather the mortgage crisis because they bought their homes before the real estate bubble and have more equity. That assumption is wrong, a recent AARP report suggests. How has the crisis affected seniors in Northern California?
Last year there were 26 homicides in the City of Richmond – and seventeen of them happened in the summer. This year, Office of Neighborhood Safety outreach workers have taken to the streets of North Richmond to try and stop the spike in homicides.
Six fire camps once housed and rehabilitated young offenders. Since the juvenile system has been realigned, shifting low-level offenders back to the care of the county, five camps have closed. Is that change good for young offenders? The young men at the last fire camp standing don’t seem to think so.