This week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state has released its Extreme Heat Action Plan, outlining a strategic and comprehensive set of state actions to adapt and strengthen resilience to extreme heat. With the launch of the Extreme Heat Action Plan, the Newsom Administration is announcing an all-of-government approach to address extreme heat across four…
Read More »County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), supported by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this week released its 2022 County Health Rankings, providing a county-by-county examination of health statuses and conditions. As the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and crises of racism and economic exclusion, CHR&R underscores…
Read More »This week, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) released a report on its 2020 Forces of Change survey, which focused on effects to local health department infrastructure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of local health departments reported their leaders and staff were targets of harassment in response to…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, has awarded a total of more than $2 million to 24 local health departments nationwide through the Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare Associated Infections, and Antimicrobial…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continues its work on “Developing the Capacity to Support Older Adult Fall Prevention” project, which is designed to assist local health departments identify older adults at high risk for falls, increase awareness about fall…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) this week announced it has awarded the 2021 Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health, its highest and most prestigious award, to California Local Public Health Directors and California Local Public Health Officers. Established in 1993 in honor of the late Beverlee A. Myers, the award…
Read More »This week, the California Department of Finance (DOF) issued its April 2022 Finance Bulletin, detailing the latest economic conditions of the state. Of note, DOF indicates that while Cash receipts for the month of March 2022 were $199 million below the forecast of $21.047 billion, preliminary General Fund agency cash receipts for the first nine…
Read More »This week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced appointments to two notable posts within the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). These include: Tracy Arnold has been appointed Assistant Director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). Arnold has served as Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary in…
Read More »The Healthy California for All Commission, established as part of the 2019 Budget Act, this week issued its final report on unified health system financing. The report details the concept of unified financing as a statewide system to arrange, pay for, and assure health care in which all residents are entitled to receive a standard…
Read More »Less than one week after federal agencies extended its mandatefor face coverings on public transportation and transportation hubs, a Florida federal judge struck down the requirement. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, in her 59-page ruling, invalidated the mask requirement on several grounds, including that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its legal…
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