Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’
Young adults fill mental health services gap with peer mentoring
Organizations in Oakland empower Transitional Age Youth (TAY) to support each other, educate health care providers, and become community leaders.
Read MoreHikes in health insurance rates could be denied by state commissioner if Prop. 45 passes
Proposition 45, a November ballot measure empowering the state’s elected insurance commissioner to rule on health insurance rate hikes, is drawing heated debate and hefty donations from Oakland groups with a stake in health care.
Read MoreCovered California clears thousands of untimely applicants, some still slated for termination
Thousands of Bay Area residents who were told they were about to lose their state health care coverage will now be able to keep their insurance plans.
Read MoreThousands of Bay Area residents to lose state health coverage
Covered California will end health insurance plans for thousands of Bay Area immigrants who didn’t submit residency forms by September 30, 2014.
Read MoreUC Berkeley student fought against cancer and for coverage
Oakland resident Kenya Wheeler was a UC Berkeley graduate student when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012.
Read MoreOakland clinics spread word about flu vaccine
The waiting room at Catch Up Clinic is sparse, save for a little girl in a pink sleeveless shirt darting out the door, a tan Band-Aid barely visible on her upper left arm. Located just around the corner from the Alameda County Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program at Eastmont Town Center, Catch Up is one of several County Public Health Department clinics preparing for the arrival of the autumn’s biggest contagion challenge—the flu.
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