Most residents were going to emergency care in Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach anyway, officials and experts say. Councilmember Kathy Ward said that’s fine, “If you’re breathing.”
Tag: Hospital Association of Southern California
Posted inHealth & Wellness
OC’s Covid Surge Impacting Staffing at Hospitals; Outbreaks Hit Public Agencies
Hospitals say they’re facing staffing shortages worse than last winter’s surge, while one in five people getting tested in Orange County are now testing positive for COVID.
Posted inGovernment
OC Supervisors Make Controversial Hospital Executive Appointment to Public Health Plan Board
A narrow majority of OC supervisors ignored concerns from a regional hospital association when they made a CalOptima board appointment last week.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
OC Supervisors Appoint New CalOptima Board Members
It’s the second time in five years that supervisors have remade board of directors of the $3.2 billion health plan for low-income, elderly and disabled residents, and solidified the medical industry’s control.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
Moorlach Bill Would Boost Local Access to Mental Health Funds
The bill, proposed by state Sen. John Moorlach, would make it clear that local police and hospitals could use money from state Proposition 63 for emergency treatment of adults who are in danger of seriously harming themselves or others.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
OC Supervisors to Consider Another Remake of CalOptima Board
Proposed changes include reducing the size of the board and allowing spending requests and other issues to be approved by less than a majority of the full board.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
As Hospital Lobbyist, Ex-County Employee Pushes Limits of Ethics Policy
Whitney Secor Ayers, a new vice president of the Hospital Association of Southern California, has been warned twice this year about violating the county’s policy on lobbying by former employees.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
CalOptima Selects Members to Respond to Grand Jury
The board has until the end of April to answer the grand jury’s accusations that Supervisor Janet Nguyen has damaged the health plan.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Former CalOptima Board Members Push Back at Nguyen
Two former CalOptima board members blast Supervisor Janet Nguyen about grand jury allegations of lobbyist ties to health care ordinance changes. Nguyen meets with reporters Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Community Editorial: Hospitals See a CalOptima Headed in the Right Direction
The Hospital Association of Southern California sees the controversial 3-2 vote earlier this year by county supervisors changing CalOptima’s governing ordinance as spot on.
