Hospital chain to pay $275,000 to settle federal patient-privacy case
Lance Williams (Source: California Watch)
Source: California Watch - June 12, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Lance Williams Tags: Health and Welfare Prime Healthcare Decoding Prime Source Type: news
Hospital chain to pay $275,000 to settle federal patient-privacy case
Lance Williams (Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed)
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - June 12, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Lance Williams Tags: Health and Welfare Prime Healthcare Decoding Prime Source Type: news
To mark 1906 quake, resources to teach kids about disaster safety
Kelly ChenTo commemorate the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and follow up on our investigation into the seismic safety of California’s schools, the Center for Investigate Reporting is teaming up with the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter today for a“prep rally” on seismic preparedness. The event at the California Academy of Sciences will provide resources and tips for families on what to do in an earthquake. It will also feature appearances by sports stars Jerry Rice and Kristi Yamaguchi. Activities begin at 9:30 a.m.Click here for more details.Photos of major earthquakes in California since 190...
Source: California Watch - April 18, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kelly Chen Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report children disaster earthquakes Junior Watchdogs On Shaky Ground On Shaky Ground followup Source Type: news
To mark 1906 quake, resources to teach kids about disaster safety
Kelly ChenTo commemorate the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and follow up on our investigation into the seismic safety of California’s schools, the Center for Investigate Reporting is teaming up with the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter today for a“prep rally” on seismic preparedness. The event at the California Academy of Sciences will provide resources and tips for families on what to do in an earthquake. It will also feature appearances by sports stars Jerry Rice and Kristi Yamaguchi. Activities begin at 9:30 a.m.Click here for more details.Photos of major earthquakes in California since 190...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - April 18, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kelly Chen Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report children disaster earthquakes Junior Watchdogs On Shaky Ground On Shaky Ground followup Source Type: news
Lawmakers mull next steps for developmental centers
Amy Julia HarrisMax Whittaker/For California Watch People with developmental disabilities and their supporters call on lawmakers to shut down the state's developmental centers. SACRAMENTO– State lawmakers weighed today whether to appoint an inspector general to oversee state centers for the developmentally disabled and close a center in Sonoma where patients suffered the worst instances of abuse, neglect and sexual assaults.During a daylong hearing, members of a Senate budget subcommittee on health and human services heard testimony from state officials and advocates for the developmentally disabled but did ...
Source: California Watch - April 12, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Julia Harris Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Department of Developmental Services Office of Protective Services patient abuse Sonoma Developmental Center Broken Shield Source Type: news
Lawmakers mull next steps for developmental centers
Amy Julia HarrisMax Whittaker/For California Watch People with developmental disabilities and their supporters call on lawmakers to shut down the state's developmental centers. SACRAMENTO– State lawmakers weighed today whether to appoint an inspector general to oversee state centers for the developmentally disabled and close a center in Sonoma where patients suffered the worst instances of abuse, neglect and sexual assaults.During a daylong hearing, members of a Senate budget subcommittee on health and human services heard testimony from state officials and advocates for the developmentally disabled but did ...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - April 12, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Julia Harris Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Department of Developmental Services Office of Protective Services patient abuse Sonoma Developmental Center Broken Shield Source Type: news
Independent oversight proposed for developmental centers
Amy Julia HarrisMonica Lam/California Watch The Office of Protective Services is an in-house police force at California's developmental centers.The state’s influential legislative analyst is recommending that the California Legislature create an independent Office of Inspector General to monitor state developmental centers where police failed to properly investigate patient deaths, abuse, sexual assault and neglect.The proposal from the Legislative Analyst’s Office comes in response to an 18-month investigation by California Watch into rapes and other instances of patient abuse at the Sonoma Developmental C...
Source: California Watch - April 11, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Julia Harris Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Department of Developmental Services Office of Protective Services Sonoma Developmental Center Broken Shield Source Type: news
Independent oversight proposed for developmental centers
Amy Julia HarrisMonica Lam/California Watch The Office of Protective Services is an in-house police force at California's developmental centers.The state’s influential legislative analyst is recommending that the California Legislature create an independent Office of Inspector General to monitor state developmental centers where police failed to properly investigate patient deaths, abuse, sexual assault and neglect.The proposal from the Legislative Analyst’s Office comes in response to an 18-month investigation by California Watch into rapes and other instances of patient abuse at the Sonoma Developmental C...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - April 11, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Julia Harris Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Department of Developmental Services Office of Protective Services Sonoma Developmental Center Broken Shield Source Type: news
Doctors claim Prime hospital kept them from patients
Christina JewettMonica Lam/California WatchA dozen Southern California doctors are accusing the leadership of a Prime Healthcare Services hospital of refusing to notify them about their patients because they won’t engage in profit-driven practices, according to a request for a restraining order filed this week.The San Bernardino County physician group suing Chino Valley Medical Center and its director say it has been asked to needlessly admit patients from the emergency room into hospital beds,according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Bernardino County Superior Court. The group’s doctors also have been ur...
Source: California Watch - March 29, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Decoding Prime Prime Healthcare Source Type: news
Doctors claim Prime hospital kept them from patients
Christina JewettMonica Lam/California WatchA dozen Southern California doctors are accusing the leadership of a Prime Healthcare Services hospital of refusing to notify them about their patients because they won’t engage in profit-driven practices, according to a request for a restraining order filed this week.The San Bernardino County physician group suing Chino Valley Medical Center and its director say it has been asked to needlessly admit patients from the emergency room into hospital beds,according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Bernardino County Superior Court. The group’s doctors also have been ur...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - March 29, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Decoding Prime Prime Healthcare Source Type: news
Cambodian youth confront ‘historical forgetting’
Patricia Leigh BrownRichard Hartog/California Watch Community organizer Ashley Uyeda, second from left, listens during a group youth session at the Khmer Girls in Action offices in Long Beach with Christine Sam, 16, in yellow, Malin Ouk, 17, and Kunthea Sin, 18.LONG BEACH– Youthful rebellion can come in many guises, from being anti-Google to defending animal rights. But for an all-female group of Cambodian American teens in Long Beach, home to the country’s largest Cambodian community, the target of their adolescent disaffection is their parents’ generational hopelessness.“We felt the word‘act...
Source: California Watch - March 28, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Patricia Leigh Brown Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report California Lost community health refugees Source Type: news
Cambodian youth confront ‘historical forgetting’
Patricia Leigh BrownRichard Hartog/California Watch Community organizer Ashley Uyeda, second from left, listens during a group youth session at the Khmer Girls in Action offices in Long Beach with Christine Sam, 16, in yellow, Malin Ouk, 17, and Kunthea Sin, 18.LONG BEACH– Youthful rebellion can come in many guises, from being anti-Google to defending animal rights. But for an all-female group of Cambodian American teens in Long Beach, home to the country’s largest Cambodian community, the target of their adolescent disaffection is their parents’ generational hopelessness.“We felt the word‘act...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - March 28, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Patricia Leigh Brown Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report California Lost community health refugees Source Type: news
Unincorporated neighborhood finally getting sewer service
Bernice YeungMax Whittaker/Prime Arleen Hernandez frequently has to unclog her backed-up shower because of the aging septic tank at her Parklawn home.The unincorporated neighborhood of Parklawn, one of hundreds of impoverished California communities that lack basic services, celebrated a breakthrough this month when Stanislaus County broke ground on a new sewer line connecting the district to the city of Modesto.Parklawn, which has grappled with deficient septic tanks for about 60 years, is an unincorporated island of county territory nearly surrounded by Modesto. Around the state, such densely populatedunincorporated neig...
Source: California Watch - March 27, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Bernice Yeung Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report California Lost Parklawn sewer unincorporated unincorporated communities wastewater Source Type: news
Unincorporated neighborhood finally getting sewer service
Bernice YeungMax Whittaker/Prime Arleen Hernandez frequently has to unclog her backed-up shower because of the aging septic tank at her Parklawn home.The unincorporated neighborhood of Parklawn, one of hundreds of impoverished California communities that lack basic services, celebrated a breakthrough this month when Stanislaus County broke ground on a new sewer line connecting the district to the city of Modesto.Parklawn, which has grappled with deficient septic tanks for about 60 years, is an unincorporated island of county territory nearly surrounded by Modesto. Around the state, such densely populatedunincorporated neig...
Source: http://californiawatch.org/topic/health-and-welfare/feed - March 27, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Bernice Yeung Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report California Lost Parklawn sewer unincorporated unincorporated communities wastewater Source Type: news
Join our discussion on Pomona's developmental center
Marie McIntoshCalifornia Watch invites you to share your insights and experiences regarding the Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona. On April 3, reporter Ryan Gabrielson, who has covered the state’s developmental centers in his seriesBroken Shield, will participate in a discussion on topics ranging from the closure of the Lanterman Developmental Center to soaring overtime pay for the centers' police force.What does this development mean for the city of Pomona, the developmental center and its patients, and the people who live in surrounding communities?We invite stakeholders to discu...
Source: California Watch - March 26, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Marie McIntosh Tags: Health and Welfare Daily Report Department of Developmental Services Office of Protective Services patient abuse Broken Shield Source Type: news
