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In Plain Language, Today's Supreme Court Decision

2012-06-28T11:07:32-07:00

How does the Court's decision to uphold Healthcare Reform affect community clinics? Awesome news today! As you've probably heard, the US Supreme Court supported and upheld President Obama’s Healthcare Reform law. What does this mean for community clinics and our...

LifeLong Medical Care Receives grant award that will save approximately $1 million

2012-05-09T14:55:40-07:00

Yesterday LifeLong Medical Care (LifeLong) was awarded $1,109,231 as one of the Department of Health and Human Services’ first 26 Health Care Innovation Awardees. Made possible by the Affordable Care Act, the awards support 26 innovative projects nationwide that will...

La Clínica de La Raza Celebrates an Expansion of Quality Health Services With New State-of-the-Art Facility in the Monument Corridor

2012-04-11T14:08:57-07:00

Our country recently celebrated the second anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, fondly referred to as Obamacare, which expands healthcare access for millions of individuals throughout the nation. There are plenty of positive changes in store for...

Community Health Centers Launch Local Community Health Vote 2012

2012-04-02T14:10:01-07:00

Community Health Centers in Contra Costa and Solano Counties are now offering patients the opportunity to register to vote and to receive information on the voting process as a service to the community. As non-profit organizations, La Clínica de La...

State cuts would cripple community health centers

2012-03-29T15:07:35-07:00

Just as President Obama’s Healthcare Reform bills are poised to deliver on the promise of providing health care for millions of Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget would cut funding to neighborhood-based, community-governed health centers. These centers are the only cost-effective...

Community Clinics, Oh How We Need You!

2011-10-26T13:34:49-07:00

The United States currently faces the toughest economic times since the Great Depression, with an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent in September. This is bad news for families in HMOs as studies show that for every one percent that unemployment...

The America We Want

2011-03-25T10:31:09-07:00

Here's a riddle: What steadily shrinks for the first 39 years of its life and grows blazingly fast for the next 30? (Sorry, gents - the answer's unfortunately not, as a general rule, "my hairline.") Give up? It's the income...

Explaining our healthcare system to alien invaders

2011-02-25T14:12:47-08:00

Sometimes the healthcare situation in this state (and this country in general) really makes us want to cry. When things are this bad - as they are now - the only way we know to avoid breaking down into hysterics...

Saving Medi-Cal will take more than optimism

2011-02-08T09:52:30-08:00

Have you ever fallen a bit into the red ink with your personal finances? Sure, who hasn't. Have you then, as a sort of family recovery plan, written a budget that puts you back in the black, but does so...

New Action Alert Live & Ready for....Action

2011-01-25T15:49:01-08:00

This week, just a short note to point our faithful readers to Round 2 of our website's new policy advocacy action system, or PAAS. Just kidding, there's no way we're calling it PAAS. But our advocacy action page is live...