New Order Reinstates Restrictions on Business, Travel and Other Nonessential Activities
On Thursday, December 3, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the release of a new regional Stay-at-Home Order in response to increases in rates of new COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths across the state. Governor Newsom reported during an afternoon press conference that the state is now seeing the highest sustained number of new cases at any time during the pandemic, with over 15,000 new cases reported daily. The Order was published Thursday evening and was issued by Acting State Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan. The Order will be implemented on a five-region basis (Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California). When a given region falls below 15% of its remaining ICU bed capacity, the Order’s restrictions shall go into effect 24 hours after that assessment. The state’s restrictions will remain in place for at least thre
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New Intervention to Help Children With Trauma Will Treat Whole Family
As California’s new program to screen Medi-Cal patients for adverse childhood experiences (which are termed “ACEs”) gets underway, experts at UC San Francisco are trying to ensure that the adults and children who report trauma get the help they need.
Experts now believe it’s most effective to treat the whole family when traumas occur. But any successful program would need to overcome fragmented payment systems, which usually dictate separate and poorly coordinated care for children and adults. So, with funding from Genentech, the UCSF researchers plan to develop a “Whole Family Wellness” intervention that integrates resources from Medi-Cal clinics with outside agencies and test it over a three-year period.
Professor Nadereh Pourat
December 10, 2020
Nadereh Pourat, associate director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Emmeline Chuang, associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, have received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The researchers will explore how California counties responded to COVID-19 under the Whole Person Care Medicaid Pilot Program.
The grant will expand on efforts to evaluate Whole Person Care, or WPC, a Medicaid program launched in 2016 by the California Department of Health Care Services, which aims to provide coordinated health care and social services for patients with complex needs, such as those who are homeless, have mental health and chronic conditions, or have been recently incarcerated. Researchers will look at whether WPC improved health outcomes and service delivery for enrolled patients. The findings wil