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Central Coast firms agree to $68 million Medi-Cal fraud settlement

Written on 30 Jun, 2023 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A joint Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County health system, along with three Central Coast health care providers, have agreed to pay a combined total of $68 million to settle allegations that they broke federal... (Continue reading)

SLO County supervisors to vote on outsourcing jail medical services

Written on 17 Sep, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors may decide on Tuesday to contract out jail health care services. [Cal Coast Times] In Aug, 2017, in the aftermath of Andrew Holland’s jailhouse death, Supervisor Debbie Arnold made a motion to... (Continue reading)

Anger erupts after California speaker dumps single-payer bill

Written on 29 Jun, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 42 comments

California progressives are furious with Democratic Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who last week halted the the single-payer health care bill that had passed the state Senate. Rendon and his critics are now trading blows as progressives lobby for the speaker... (Continue reading)

Single-payer could cost California more than twice the state budget

Written on 23 May, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 45 comments

A plan to create a single-payer healthcare system that is currently under consideration in the California Legislature would cost $400 billion annually to implement, according to a legislative analysis released by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday. By comparison, California’s... (Continue reading)

Does California want single-payer healthcare?

Written on 27 Feb, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 34 comments

With Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump planning to repeal some, if not all, of Obamacare, California’s Democrat-controlled state government is considering the idea of instituting a state-run single-payer system that would operate like Medicare. [LA Times] A single-payer system... (Continue reading)

Deaths in SLO County from Valley fever on the rise

Written on 4 Feb, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

In the first month of 2017, there have been 26 confirmed cases of Valley Fever in San Luis Obispo County and two deaths. Over the past eight years, the number of confirmed cases has more than doubled. In 2009 there... (Continue reading)

Carbajal appointed to House Committee on Budget

Written on 16 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Recently elected Congressman Salud Carbajal has been appointment to the House Committee on Budget. The Budget Committee is responsible for drafting an annual concurrent resolution that provides a congressional framework for spending, revenue levels and public debt. Carbajal’s assignment was... (Continue reading)

AG hospital leads county in hip surgery mortality rates

Written on 7 Nov, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Arroyo Grande Community Medical Center had the highest rate of mortality in patients who underwent surgery following a hip fracture in San Luis Obispo County in 2013 and 2014, though it is no longer the leader in the state of... (Continue reading)

Nipomo woman gets year in jail for abusing terminally ill daughter

Written on 2 Nov, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A Nipomo optometrist has received a one-year jail sentence for abusing her terminally ill adult daughter, whom hospital workers reportedly found covered in urine and feces. Despite pleading no contest to a felony count, Susanne Wilch Krout maintains her innocence... (Continue reading)

Did SLO facility fail to protect elderly resident?

Written on 10 Oct, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 9 comments

By KAREN VELIE Questions have been raised about the speed of the response at a San Luis Obispo independent living facility after a 75-year-old man was found face down in the dirt behind the Las Brisas Retirement Community. On Oct.... (Continue reading)