This week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a powerful awareness campaign featuring real-life accounts of people recovering from opioid use disorder and people who have lost loved ones to prescription opioid overdose. The campaign aims to increase awareness and knowledge about the risk of prescription opioids and stop inappropriate use….
Read More »This week, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released its “2016 STD Annual Report” which includes data tables, trends, slides, and technical notes regarding sexually transmitted diseases throughout California last year. The report indicated the rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and early syphilis are increasing in California; CDPH is particularly concerned about the observed increase…
Read More »With funding set to expire this Sunday, October 1, both the Senate and House will not pass a reauthorization measure in time for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). By missing the deadline for reauthorization, states may soon have to notify families whose children are covered by the program that they may lose coverage. While…
Read More »Please note that the deadline to make changes to your local health department page in our 2018 Health Directory is next Friday, October 6. If you need another copy of your directory page, please email us at admin@cheac.org.
Read More »Earlier this week, Senate Republicans announced they would not hold a vote on the last-ditch Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Over the weekend and early this week, a handful of senators continued to express uncertainty and opposition to the proposal, including Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), John…
Read More »We are delighted to announce that Butte County’s Department of Public Health Department was awarded national public health accreditation status by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) earlier this week. Butte becomes the tenth local health department awarded PHAB recognition in California along with CDPH. Please join us in congratulating the hard work and success…
Read More »Seeing the proposal as a last-minute opportunity to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prior to the expiration of key procedural powers at the end of the month, Senate Republicans have been quickly attempting to gather votes on H.R. 1628 by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) and cosponsored by…
Read More »The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in collaboration with Covered California and the Department of Finance (DOF), released a preliminary analysis on the potential impact the Graham-Cassidy proposal would have on California. The analysis notes similar programmatic and fiscal concerns with previous Republican health care proposals, but notes the Graham-Cassidy proposal “is the…
Read More »Appearing before the California Nurses Association, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom today urged state legislators to move forward with SB 562 by Senator Ricardo Lara which would establish universal, single-payer health care in California. Recall, the measure was shelved in the Assembly by Speaker Anthony Rendon earlier this summer, due to a lack of details around…
Read More »The California Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup Quarterly Meeting (CATPHWG) will be held on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm at the CalEPA Sierra Hearing Room, Second Floor (1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA). For those unable to attend in person, the meeting will also be available via webcast. The meeting…
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