SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The City of San Francisco will pay Black and Pacific Islander women $1,000 a month during their pregnancies and after birth in a pilot program to study how the monthly support helps achieve better maternal health and birthing outcomes. The Abundant Birth Project will provide the monthly supplement to approximately […]
Transforming Safety-Net Patients’ Access to Care, During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic AUGUST 17, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has required health care practices to rapidly adopt a variety of telehealth capabilities to continue providing care and access to providers while keeping workers and patients safe from the virus. These capabilities include phone and video visits, […]
Published: Aug 31, 2020 New law includes targeted protections for tenants to shield them from evictions due to COVID-19-related back rent through February 1, 2021 Extends anti-foreclosure protections in the Homeowner Bill of Rights to small landlords SACRAMENTO — Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he has signed legislation to protect millions of tenants from eviction and property […]
Richard E. Besser, a physician, is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter: @DrRichBesser. The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion articles at CNN. In this article, Richard Besser makes a moral and fiscal case can be made for dramatic structural change.
This article highlights how experts worry that the current COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate racial disparities and specifically, maternal mortality – or the death of a woman up to a year following the end of a pregnancy. Recent data have shown that COVID-19 mortality rates are substantially higher among blacks and Latinos than among whites or […]
From this recent New York Times article: “The driving force for education should not be ‘a parent needs to have a place for her kid to be so she can go to work’. Meanwhile, EdSource reported on July 17, 2020 that California child care facilities are reporting five times as many coronavirus cases as of […]
According to the CDC, pregnant people might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared to non-pregnant people. It is especially important for people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19, and those who live with them, to protect themselves from getting COVID-19. The best ways to protect yourself and to help reduce the spread of […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to consumers and health care providers about hand sanitizer products that are labeled as containing ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but that have tested positive for methanol contamination. Methanol (i.e., methyl alcohol or wood alcohol) is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed […]
Father engagement is a vital and integrated aspect of parent, family, and community engagement work. When staff engage fathers as advocates, lifelong educators, and first teachers of their children, both benefit. Male family members and father figures serve key roles in the healthy development of their children and families, and have much to add to their […]