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San Francisco Community Health Center celebrated a TransThrive clinic expansion in early April 2026. It came after federal rollbacks on gender-affirming care and the earlier loss of more than $300,000 in TransHOPE funding.
HRSA's request for information on the 340B rebate model closes April 20, 2026. Health centers can weigh in on manufacturer rebates, contract pharmacy oversight and documentation rules, and NACHC is gathering comments.
The Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County and the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers met on April 10, 2026 to align on a shared Southern California vision.
The Central California Alliance for Health reported in April 2026 that it reinvested $44.9 million in 2025 across Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Merced and Mariposa counties, including support for health centers.
A JAMA study across five academic medical centers, reported by STAT News in April 2026, found AI ambient scribes cut total EHR time by 13.4 minutes a day and documentation time by 16 minutes, with uneven use among clinicians.
AbbVie sued HRSA in April 2026 to challenge the 30-year-old 340B patient definition, proposing a four-part test: direct care, a clinical encounter, active care management, and a visit within 12 months.
President Trump signed Executive Order 14398 in March 2026, barring what it calls racially discriminatory DEI activities by federal contractors and grantees, including HRSA-funded health centers.
HHS's general counsel referred the Los Angeles LGBT Center and three other LGBTQ+ health centers to the HHS inspector general, Erin in the Morning reported in February 2026, after a December 2025 HHS declaration on gender-affirming care for minors.
The FY2027 budget proposal, as ASTHO summarized in April 2026, offers $3 billion for health centers, down from $6.5 billion in FY2026, which included the $4.6 billion Community Health Center Fund.
CCALAC and the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers hosted the 25th Southern California Health Care Symposium on April 10, 2026, naming dangerous state and federal policies and a worsening workforce crisis as threats to safety-net capacity.
CHCF selected six proposals from 132 submissions for its Future of Medi-Cal Commission in April 2026. They include one primary care payment across Medi-Cal, CalPERS and Covered California, IHSS in managed care, and an AI-first health data utility.
The Commonwealth Fund projected in March 2026 that 5.6 million health center Medicaid patients in expansion states could lose coverage under H.R. 1 work requirements. Revenue losses could approach $32 billion over five years.
HRSA is being merged into the new Administration for a Healthy America with SAMHSA, ATSDR and NIOSH, Fierce Healthcare reported in April 2026. More than 700 employees, about 25% of staff, have left since February, including grant managers and auditors.
KFF reported in April 2026 that up to 1.4 million Californians could lose Medi-Cal under work requirements starting January 2027, while the state faces a $3 billion deficit in FY2027.
CMS told states to wind down MCO taxes by the end of FY2026 under H.R. 1, as the Paragon Health Institute noted in April 2026. California's MCO tax raises $8.4 billion in 2025 and a projected $19.4 billion over four years with federal matching.
A March 2026 Berkeley Research Group study commissioned by Protect Patients CA says the SEIU-UHW 90% spending measure would redirect $1.7 billion from health centers and push two-thirds into deficits.
On June 17, 2026, a one-time 5% tax on Californians worth more than $1 billion qualified for the November ballot, as CalMatters reported. It would reach about 200 people, and its backers estimate $100 billion in revenue. Ninety percent would go to health care.
Corrected Oct 6, 2026: The $100 billion figure is the backers' estimate. The measure qualified for the ballot on June 17, 2026.
HCAI published California's Rural Health Transformation Plan in March 2026 with $233.6 million across three areas: new care models such as e-consults and telehealth, rural workforce pipelines and loan repayment, and cybersecurity and data sharing.
The California Health Care Foundation warned in April 2026 that proposed federal cuts would hurt Teaching Health Center residencies that train primary care doctors for under-resourced communities.
An analysis reported by Richmondside in March 2026 puts Contra Costa County's H.R. 1 losses at $307 million, with 93,000 residents at risk of losing Medi-Cal.
Governing reported in April 2026 the first data on work requirements hitting health centers: Bluestem Health in Nebraska faces a $600,000 yearly loss, and a Vermont clinic projects $3 million.
HRSA announced more than $135 million in funding. It includes $125 million for more than 350 health centers to offer nutrition services and food-based care within primary care, and $11.25 million for 15 Rural Residency Planning grants of $750,000 each.
SEIU-UHW filed more than 30 unfair labor practice charges against Innercare (Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo) over a 2024 union drive. The NLRB complaint that followed alleges illegal firings and seeks a bargaining order without a new election.
Corrected Oct 13, 2026: The record said the NLRB found violations. The NLRB complaint alleges them, Innercare denies them, and no judge has ruled. An unsourced ranking of the case was removed.
Three Medi-Cal changes hit LA County in 2026: asset limits returned January 1 ($130,000 for one person), undocumented adult enrollment froze January 1, and H.R. 1 renewals every six months start in the third quarter.
HHS's Office for Civil Rights began enforcing the updated 42 CFR Part 2 rules on February 16, 2026. The rule aligns Part 2 with HIPAA and adds protections for substance use treatment records.
SEIU-UHW submitted signatures in April 2026 for two ballot measures, one capping health care executive pay and one requiring community clinics to spend 90% of revenue on patient care.
The U.S. Government filed an amicus brief in a Louisiana federal 340B case in April 2026, siding with drugmakers and arguing states cannot enforce contract pharmacy protections, as the National Law Review reported.
A study in Annals of Family Medicine, noted in February 2026, describes a $500-per-employee program at Baylor/Waco Family Health Center that trains bilingual staff as certified medical interpreters.
California's Attorney General charged 21 people in April 2026 in Operation Skip Trace, a $267 million hospice fraud scheme that used 14 fake hospice companies and stolen identities enrolled in Medi-Cal. The case is not specific to health centers.
Physicians, therapists and nurse practitioners at Imperial Beach Community Clinic voted to join NUHW in January 2026, the union announced. Providers cited constant executive turnover, burnout from understaffing, and retaliation after they wrote a public op-ed.
San Ysidro Health is piloting arts prescriptions for 250 young people ages 12 to 25 with anxiety, depression or isolation, with Art Pharmacy, KTLA reported in April 2026.
Ventura County supervisors voted unanimously on August 18, 2026 to advance a medical office building as Santa Paula Hospital faces closure by January 1, 2030 under seismic rules, KEYT reported.
The Manteca Bulletin reported in April 2026, from county health department data, that 22,012 undocumented San Joaquin County residents would lose Medi-Cal dental coverage on July 1 under the UIS rollback.
San Francisco Community Health Center opened TransThrive in April 2026, a trans-led clinic offering primary care, behavioral health and gender-affirming services. It expands access while federal cuts defund LGBTQ+ health programs.
A UC Merced Center for Health Equity study of three Central Valley health centers, with 33 health professionals, 39 CHWs and 403 patient surveys, found in March 2026 that power dynamics and rushed visits erode patient trust.
The Legislative Analyst's Office found on April 6, 2026 that H.R. 1 will cost California a net $3.2 billion, eliminating $5.1 billion in provider tax revenue.