Medi-Cal

On Monday, the UC Berkeley Emeriti Academy and Belmont Village Senior Living hosted a virtual webinar called “Navigating the Challenges of Aging.”

The Homeless Action Center, or HAC, celebrated the opening of its “Almost Home” safe haven house at an event Thursday.

The union members want California’s largest HMO to wake up and confront the mental health crisis surging in our state and across the nation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced appointments to the state government Thursday and Friday, including four UC Berkeley alumni and faculty.

Eye doctors and optometry students held a news conference Monday to announce Medi-Cal’s reestablishment of two “life-saving” benefits for those under the health care program.

As many as 4,000 UC Berkeley students visit Alta Bates’ emergency department, or ED, every academic year. It’s especially comforting to know that we can also receive intensive care services or other acute care services at Alta Bates, which is owned by the hospital chain Sutter Health.

When someone doesn’t get vaccinated or chooses not to vaccinate their children, they put themselves and their communities at risk.

Universal financial access to care can help address unmet health needs, reduce delays in care, increase the use of preventive services, help prevent unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations and help our children get better starts to life. It is the right thing to do, and we have the means to do it.

Without further state action, the rate of insured Californians could decrease and leave more than 4 million nonelderly Californians without health insurance by 2023, according to a study published Nov. 27 by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.