Author Archives: Ana B. Ibarra

Ana covers health policy and the COVID-19 pandemic. She joined CalMatters in 2020 after four years at Kaiser Health News. She started her reporting career at McClatchy’s Merced Sun-Star. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and many other state and national news outlets.

ana@calmatters.org

A commuter sits in a Los Angeles Metro train in Los Angeles on July 13, 2022. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP

California to end the COVID state of emergency

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

A healthcare employee protests outside Centinela Hospital Medical Center, in Los Angeles on May 5, 2020. Photo by Lucy Nicholson, Reuters

Health care workers union is using ballot measures to remedy low wages amid a workforce shortage

by Ana B. Ibarra October 5, 2022October 10, 2022

From left, Kelsey McQuaid-Craig, Brandon J. Craig and Mary Craig at their home in Sacramento on Aug. 9, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

‘Operating under water’: Families trying to place loved ones in Medi-Cal assisted living program wait years

by Ana B. Ibarra September 7, 2022September 6, 2022

A sign on a wall reads "This site save lives" in Spanish and English at an overdose prevention center at OnPoint NYC in New York on Feb. 18, 2022. Equipped and staffed to reverse overdoses, New York City’s new, privately run centers are a bold and contested response to a storm tide of opioid overdose deaths nationwide. Photo by Seth Wenig, AP

CalMatters en Español

Los sitios de inyección de drogas supervisados pronto podrían aparecer en California. ¿Cómo funcionarán?

by Ana B. Ibarra August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

A sign on a wall reads "This site save lives" in Spanish and English at an overdose prevention center at OnPoint NYC in New York on Feb. 18, 2022. Equipped and staffed to reverse overdoses, New York City’s new, privately run centers are a bold and contested response to a storm tide of opioid overdose deaths nationwide. Photo by Seth Wenig, AP

California governor vetoes supervised drug injection sites

by Ana B. Ibarra August 11, 2022August 23, 2022

A doctor listens to a man's heart beat at a clinic in Bieber, California on July 23, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

CalMatters en Español

Las tasas de seguro de Covered California aumentarán

by Ana B. Ibarra July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

A doctor listens to a man's heart beat at a clinic in Bieber, California on July 23, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Covered California insurance rates to increase

by Ana B. Ibarra July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

Bernadette Moordigian in front of the Fresno City College library on July 5, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

Health care costs keep rising. A new California agency aims to fix that

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra July 15, 2022July 15, 2022

Carolyn Jackson, 68, had her blood pressure measured at a free medical clinic in Los Angeles on Oct. 31, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Thirty-year-old Medi-Cal income limit leaves some seniors without needed care

by Ana B. Ibarra June 2, 2022June 1, 2022

An employee works on a monkeypox vaccine at the laboratory of biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic in Germany, on May 24, 2022. The company has a smallpox vaccine which is also effective against monkeypox. REUTERS/Lukas Barth

CalMatters en Español

Hay sospecha de un contagio de viruela del simio en California: Cuales son sus síntomas y que tan contagioso es?

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra May 24, 2022May 26, 2022