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Quality of care in the nation’s hospices came under the spotlight in August when the agency that runs Medicare rated some 3,800 facilities nationally, including about two dozen in San Diego County, on seven measures. Now, the same federal agency that published the online scorecard, Hospice Compare, is getting attention because its website has flaws, and that has delayed the ... Read More »
A state legislator who is leading an inquiry into the escalating rates of diabetes and heart disease highlighted inewsource data. Read More »
It’s been a long goodbye for San Diego Hospice, an institution that helped people die with dignity and without pain. Read More »
Despite rumors of its death, the Healthy California Act, a bill that would create a massive single-payer insurance system for nearly all 39 million Golden State residents, is alive and, in the eyes of its supporters, imperative. Read More »
Lifestyle coaches will teach beneficiaries with prediabetes how to prevent diabetes by losing weight and exercising over three year program Read More »
Oscar and Teri Lara of Rancho Bernardo were diagnosed with prediabetes a few months ago, a condition 86 million Americans share. That means the retired couple live with a greater chance they’ll develop diabetes, which can lead to heart, nerve, kidney and eye disease, and an early death. The Laras are lucky. Nine in 10 Americans don’t know they have ... Read More »
Two San Diego hospitals have highest rates of death for emergency hip fracture patients in California. Faster care and more teamwork needed. Read More »
If you’re a Medi-Cal patient, getting a timely appointment with a doctor has never been easy. It’s especially tough for San Diego beneficiaries. Read More »
Protesting doctors fear that with Price at HHS helm, services could be reduced for one in three Californians on Medi-Cal. Read More »
In psychiatric hospitals, use of seclusion and restraint are strategies of last resort, to be used only with those deemed a danger to themselves or others. Read More »