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California: the record
Every California record from every file, newest first; federal records that apply in every state are in the full archive.
Lodi Wellness Center in San Joaquin County will close June 30, 2026, because of Proposition 1 funding shifts, Becker's Behavioral Health reported. Central Valley health centers will take on its behavioral health patients, with no replacement in place.
Kaiser mental health therapists in NUHW ratified a deal in late April 2026, ending a 196-day strike that began in September 2025, the longest mental health worker strike in U.S. History.
California Primary Care Association (representing 2,300+ clinics) and Open Door Community Health Centers filed a federal preemption lawsuit in the Northern District of California April 30, 2026 against the SEIU-UHW 90% patient-care spending ballot initiative.
HCAI confirmed that California received $233.6 million for federal fiscal year 2026 from the Rural Health Transformation Program. That is California's share of a $50B, five-year fund created under H.R. 1.
The Rural Northern California Medical Education Consortium has launched a multi-year effort to build the first North State Medical School, Lassen News reported on April 30, 2026. The school will not graduate physicians for 7 to 10 years.
Shasta Community Health Center bought the Center of Hope behavioral health and substance use facility in Redding from Hill Country Health & Wellness Center in April 2026.
At its UGM 2025 meeting, Epic announced its 2026 AI tools, including Art for clinicians and ambient note drafting, Emmie for patients in MyChart, and Penny for coding and appeals, Healthcare IT Today reported.
Venice Family Clinic's CEO confirmed a hiring freeze ahead of an expected loss of about 20% of its budget to state and federal Medi-Cal cuts, LA Public Press reported April 29, 2026.
Kaiser Permanente announced on April 29, 2026, that it will lay off 42 nurses at its San Rafael and Petaluma outpatient clinics, KRON4 reported. It is also cutting 38 business-function jobs statewide.
The California Health Care Foundation wrote on April 29, 2026 that the state wants 15% of total medical spending to go to primary care by 2034, up 0.5 to 1 point a year. In November 2025, 63 plan, provider and agency leaders met in Sacramento to design it.
In April 2026, CalMatters reported a drop in a California pediatric eye-exam measure. The report does not establish cause, a current fee, local demand, or FQHC break-even.
LA County's Measure ER passed, but an August lawsuit has the county holding the money in escrow. LA FQHCs need plans for bridge funding, allocation, and reporting that work without it for now.
CalChamber-led business coalition submitted approximately 1 million signatures April 27 for the 'Affordable California' ballot initiative — a direct counter-pressure measure against SEIU-UHW's 90% patient-care spending mandate (the FQHC accountability…
A CalChamber-led business coalition submitted nearly 1 million signatures on April 27, 2026 for its Affordable California ballot measure. It answers SEIU-UHW's 90% patient-care spending measure, which filed 1.4 million signatures on April 3.
HHS moved the Section 504 web and mobile accessibility deadline to May 11, 2027 (May 2028 for groups under 15 staff). A 12-month plan to audit, fix, and document.
A community-impact analysis by Paul Flores, published April 25, 2026, names Sierra View Medical Center in Porterville as at significant risk under H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts.
DHCS's April 24, 2026 notice on moving state-only clinic payments off PPS is now historical. A July 2 Third Addendum says SB 164 postponed the change to July 1, 2027, and clinics should keep billing under current rules until further notice.
Research reported by Stocktonia on April 24, 2026 found that nearly 100,000 immigrants without legal status left Medi-Cal between June and December 2025.
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals filed WARN notices April 22-23, 2026 for 38 employees in Alameda, Los Angeles and Solano counties, as Becker's Hospital Review reported. That brings Kaiser's 2026 California total to 47 filings and 339 workers.
CPCA Advocates' Day at the Capitol was scheduled for April 28, 2026 in Sacramento as a forum for community health center patients, clinicians, staff, and consortia to meet with state legislators.
SB 1323 (Rubio) was signed on September 27, 2026. Health care providers must post an entrance notice on immigration enforcement, set visitor procedures and train staff on requests from people in immigration custody to notify family.
Corrected Oct 13, 2026: The record said SB 1323 requires staff to help detained patients notify their families. As signed, it requires an entrance notice, visitor procedures and staff training on those requests.
OB Rag reported on April 21, 2026 that Scripps Mercy San Diego, Sharp Chula Vista and Tri-City Oceanside are on Public Citizen's list of 446 at-risk hospitals. Each gets 20% or more of its revenue from Medicaid and lost money from 2022 to 2024.
Senator Durazo's SB 1422 (which would reverse the Jan 1, 2026 UIS Medi-Cal enrollment freeze and protect undocumented adult enrollment) was placed on the Senate Appropriations Committee suspense file April 20, 2026 (per LegiScan).
San Francisco's Department of Public Health released a memo on April 20, 2026 listing 121 more full-time positions to cut, about 60% of them vacant, as Mission Local reported.
Los Cerritos Community News named eight LA County hospitals at higher closure risk under H.R. 1, including PIH Good Samaritan, MLK Jr. Community Hospital and Hollywood Presbyterian.
Public Citizen reported in April 2026 that 446 U.S. Hospitals face higher closure risk from H.R. 1's Medicaid cuts, 83 of them in California, the most of any state.
San Diego County's 2026-28 Recommended Budget comes out May 1, 2026, the first to fully reflect H.R. 1 Medi-Cal cuts. Those cuts mean $999M a year for the county, and 75,000 noncitizens in the county lose coverage in October 2026.
As of June 30, SEIU 1021 reports that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted extra funding for the county safety-net system, and the AHS Board of Trustees then rescinded the layoffs. The union says 82 of its members had been set to lose their jobs.
Community Medical Centers, a San Joaquin County health center, is converting the historic Ebenezer AME Church in Stockton into CMC The Rock, a clinic only for teens and young adults, as Local News Matters reported in April 2026.
California Secretary of State set April 17, 2026 as the suggested deadline for a random-sample signature check on SEIU-UHW's two healthcare ballot initiatives (25-0008 requiring FQHCs to spend 90% of revenue on patient care; 25-0009 capping exec pay at $450K).
On August 3, 2026, SEIU 1021 reported that Asian Health Services workers in Oakland ratified a three-year contract after the old ones expired June 30. Raises total $3 an hour in year one, then 4% in each of the next two years. Layoffs now need longer notice.
Corrected Oct 13, 2026: The $91.7 million deficit and projected cash shortfall belong to Alameda Health System, not Asian Health Services. The record had mixed up the two organizations.
In March 2026, SEIU 721 and St. John's Community Health reached a three-year tentative agreement with a $30 hourly minimum, retroactive to March 1, 2026. SEIU 721's May 2026 President's Report confirmed ratification.
Corrected Oct 13, 2026: The $30/hr floor is retroactive to March 1, 2026 under the tentative agreement, not effective in July 2026.
NACHC's April 15, 2026 state 340B tracker reports 37 states with laws protecting CHC 340B savings — but read the breakdown, because the headline number is regularly misquoted: the tracker's own summary table states that only 21 of those states have…