Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula received its second C grade in a row from independent nonprofit The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday, …
State health care affordability board takes steps toward further regulating local hospital spending.
The board of California Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) took a major step last April in approving a 3-percent spending increase cap…
It had been a long day in a conference room in Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 20, where the Office of Health Care Affordability Board was in th…
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Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula officials announced on Dec. 18 that they’re forgiving 100 percent of all medical debt incurred by…
It's no longer just cold and flu season, "respiratory virus season" includes Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, among other vir…
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Significant levels of influenza combined with an early surge of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and an expected increase in Covid-19 cases p…
If a child here in Monterey County get so sick with a respiratory illness that they need advanced care, they need to leave the county—there ar…
As a new surge of Covid-19 fueled by the highly infectious omicron variant pushes hospitals in other parts of the country to the breaking poin…