Mental Health

CalMatters and CatchLight are partnering on a three-year initiative to tell powerful stories about mental health in California. We’ll spotlight solutions, personal stories, investigate systems, and bring greater awareness to this historically stigmatized topic. This initiative is supported by:

Enlight Foundation
加州医疗保健基金会
Flourish Impact Fund
Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation
Resonance Philanthropies
Sarlo Family Foundation
Sand Hill Foundation
Stuart Foundation

Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health worker Lisa Galan others stage a die-in at the Kaiser Headquarters in Oakland on Oct. 7, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters

健康

Kaiser mental health workers prepare to strike, this time in Southern California

The strike would be the second one in a little more than two years by California mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente. The clock is ticking to avoid a walkout.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 10 月 11, 2024

加州卫生与公众服务局局长马克·加利博士在加州出现首例新冠肺炎死亡病例后在加州议会大厦举行的新闻发布会上发表讲话。照片由 Anne Wernikoff 为 CalMatters 拍摄

健康

塑造加文·纽森 (Gavin Newsom) 新冠应对策略的医生即将卸任

马克·加利一直是州长加文·纽森内阁中的坚定发言人，影响着政府的新冠疫情政策及其降低医疗成本的努力。

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安娜·B·伊瓦拉

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黄克莉丝汀

• 2024 年 9 月 6 日

A lawmaker, wearing a tan suit and blue tie, standing in front of a podium with white pillars and red curtains in the background of the Senate Floor at the state Capitol in Sacramento.

数字民主

立法者称纽森的工作人员“夸大”了失败的医疗保健法案的成本

A trio of California Democratic lawmakers say they’re frustrated by high cost estimates that helped kill their health care legislation. Did the Newsom administration inflate the numbers to quietly kill the bills?

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瑞安·萨巴洛

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 2024 年 8 月 27 日

在州议员的簇拥下，州长加文·纽瑟姆坐在圣何塞一家家得宝公司的办公桌前，与另一位议员握手庆祝。

国会大厦

加文·纽瑟姆 (Gavin Newsom) 签署了哪些 2024 年加州法案？

对于加州法律，责任确实落在州长加文·纽森的办公桌上。虽然立法机构在 8 月 31 日结束例行会议之前批准了数百项法案，但纽森决定这些法案是否成为法律。他于 9 月 30 日结束例行会议——并在最后几天否决了近 1,000 项法案中的约 18%（以及近 […]

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CalMatters Staff

• 2024 年 8 月 27 日

A doctor listens to a patient's heartbeat at the Mountain Valley Health Center in Bieber on July 24, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

健康

找不到医生？加州法案将惩罚向客户提供过时信息的保险公司

Patients looking for doctors who will take their insurance often find the list of doctors provided by their insurance companies are inaccurate or out of date. Insurers and doctors are fighting a bill that would fine insurers for having “ghost networks” that aren’t accurate.

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瑞安·萨巴洛

• 7 月 29, 2024

Mental Health

California sent a mentally ill man to a state hospital. Then it charged him $760,000

California State Hospitals can bill patients for the care they receive during confinement. The charges often run in the tens of thousands of dollars, putting vulnerable people in debt for years.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 7 月 18, 2024

Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on an unhoused man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

无家可归

How shots instead of pills could change California’s homeless crisis

Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.

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玛丽莎肯德尔

• 6 月 4, 2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of Prop. 1 during a press conference at the United Domestic Workers of America building in San Diego on Feb. 29, 2024. Photo by Kristian Carreon for CalMatters

Mental Health

Newsom releases billions for mental health housing ahead of schedule: ‘Time to deliver’

California voters narrowly passed Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom's measure to fund mental health housing. He's prodding counties to use the money quickly.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 5 月 15, 2024

An inmate's cell in the inmate housing unit at the Tulare County Adult Pre-Trial Facility on Sept. 18, 2023. In 2022, Tulare County had eight inmate deaths in their facility, the deadliest year in the jail’s history. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

正义

How a suicide crisis led to change in one small California county jail

“Jail suicides are extraordinarily difficult to protect against,” a retired California sheriff said. One jail in the San Joaquin Valley is changing routines to keep inmates from harming themselves.

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杜赞奇

• 5 月 6, 2024

Mental Health

We’re investigating mental health insurance denials in California. What should we know?

California law requires insurance plans to cover medically necessary mental health and addiction treatment. That doesn’t always happen.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 4 月 22, 2024