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After the Pandemic Hit Nursing Homes Hard, California Lawmakers Push to Tighten Licensing Rules

When Johanna Trenerry found a nursing home for her husband after his stroke, she expected his stay would be temporary. He never came home. Arthur…

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Backlogs in California’s Medicaid Drug Program Ease, but Problems Persist

The contractor running California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program has addressed shortfalls that earlier this year left thousands of enrollees without critical medications, some languishing on…

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After ‘Truly Appalling’ Death Toll in Nursing Homes, California Rethinks Their Funding

About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of covid lived in a nursing home. They were among the state’s most frail residents: nearly 9,400 mothers, fathers,…

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