The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County. Orange County ...

Although research shows that up to 94 percent of children will "grow out" of their transgender identity, advocates say that those studies were flawed in the first place and shouldn't dictate how ...

The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically. This story also ran on The Orange County Register. It can be ...

Olivia Owlett, one of four residents in the inaugural class of Healthy Rural California's family medicine residency program in Chico. She was drawn to the region in large part because its health care ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

Neeta Thakur, a University of California-San Francisco professor and a doctor, is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over canceled research grants.

Florence Owens, an In-Home Supportive Services aide, brings Carol Crooks her morning coffee in Oakland. Proposed Medicaid cuts could endanger funding for aides such as Owens. (Ronnie Cohen for KFF ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. She rushed to check on him at a ...

Sean Brown, recovering from methamphetamine addiction, lost his housing in the Eaton Fire in January. “I had nothing but the clothes on my back. It just brought back all of those feelings of being ...

Maurice Clark is homeless on the streets of Las Vegas. He took a survey that should help him get into housing, but he’s waiting. (Angela Hart/KFF Health News) LAS VEGAS — Maurice Clark huddled in his ...

Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez reads the names of people who have died in custody at immigration detention centers in recent years during an Oct. 31 vigil outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...