Mental health care workers are in high demand across California, especially in the rural pockets of the state. In the Eastern Sierra, providers are working to expand their in-person services while ...

Two years ago, California voters overwhelmingly decided to enshrine the right to abortion services in the state constitution. And it wasn’t just coastal liberals: voters in the rural north, ...

The Affordable Care Act has saved countless families with medically complex children, including columnist Jennifer McLelland’s. Her son was born without a functional airway and quickly ...

The present-day Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop. Photo by Lauren DeLaunay Miller. In the first week of 1945, Dr. Lloyd Bambauer announced that the Bishop Community Hospital was in trouble. Set in a ...

Despite health coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act, many low-income Californians are still struggling to afford medical care, with more than half reportedly delaying treatment because of cost ...

A statewide research initiative called Reimagine Lab is deploying strategies from the product design world to identify the root causes of family violence and find new ways to prevent it.

Several years ago, I was talking with a consultant hired by my workplace to evaluate our diversity, equity and inclusion policies. I offhandedly mentioned that many people I knew in my personal life ...

As a victim advocate and survivor of domestic violence, I have had the privilege of learning about and applying the principles of restorative justice in my own life. My journey began 11 years after ...

It isn’t always easy to find a drink of water at school. Unfortunately, this is a comment we hear a lot when we talk to children about the health benefits of drinking water instead of sugary, ...

More than 5 million people will remain uninsured in the 26 states that chose not to expand Medicaid, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.