The City of Long Beach Health & Human Services Department was recently featured on the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) Podcast from Washington, a podcast series that provides public health professionals with in-depth interviews featuring some of the field’s top officials. In the most recent episode, NACCHO staff interview Latino Health…
Read More »The CHEAC Office will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2020, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. We will resume normal operations on Tuesday, January 21.
Read More »Today, Governor Newsom announced Jacey Cooper’s appointment as State Medicaid Director and Chief Deputy Director of Health Care Programs at the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). Since 2016, Ms. Cooper served as Assistant Deputy Director of Health Care Delivery Systems at DHCS since 2016. She also served Vice President at Meridian Healthcare Partners and…
Read More »On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, led by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, revealed their recommendations for reducing street homelessness, breaking down barriers keeping individuals experiencing homelessness from accessing mental health and substance use services, and findings ways to reduce the cost and boost the…
Read More »This week the Legislature convened a myriad of policy committees in each house to consider bills introduced last year (two-year bills). The deadline to pass all two-year bills is January 31st. While most policy committees met this week, their agendas were relatively short. The Senate Education Committee heard SB 673, authored by Senator Mike Morrell,…
Read More »On Thursday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released their highlights of the Governor’s 2020-21 January Budget, which includes greater detail on budget implications for programs within the department. CHEAC prepared a brief memo highlighting items of interest to local health departments; the memo is available here.
Read More »On Monday, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) published its report, “The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget,” which details significant investments, examines the broader fiscal status of the state, and recommends considerations and actions to the Legislature. Recall, Governor Newsom proposed his $222.2 billion state budget on Friday of last week. The LAO’s report…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently launched a new initiative, “Active People, Healthy Nation,” with a goal of helping 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027. The initiative uses five steps to coordinate actions to achieve its goal through supporting physical activity initiatives at the national, state, and local…
Read More »This morning in a nearly three-hour press conference, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his FY 2020-21 budget proposal. CHEAC produced a summary of the Governor’s 2020-21 budget proposal available here. Additional budget resources will be posted on our CHEAC Budget Page throughout the year. Over the coming weeks, the Legislature will begin hearing proposed budget items…
Read More »California’s Legislature reconvened the second year of their two-year session on Monday with relatively brief floor sessions. Both Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon warmly welcomed their members back to their respective chambers. Pro Tem Atkins acknowledged 2020 would be a very busy year with the Senate first tackling the…
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