Archived California Healthcare News

Percentage of patients and health care workers at hospital who need it able to get tested for COVID-19

As of May 1, 2020
All Doctors: 86%
Safety-Net Doctors: 84% 
Non-Safety-Net Doctors: 88%

As of April 14, 2020
All Doctors: 78%
Safety-Net Doctors: 75% 
Non-Safety-Net Doctors: 81%

Low Unemployment Scenario
Medicaid: 1,484,000
Employer-sponsored: 1,301,000
Marketplace: 13,000
Uninsured: 196,000

Medium Unlemployment Scenario
Medicaid: 2,211,000
Employer-sponsored: 2,555,000
Marketplace: 165,000
Uninsured: 179,000

High Unemployment Scenario
Medicaid: 2,998,000
Employer-sponsored: 3,837,000
Marketplace: 252,000
Uninsured: 586,000

Note: Low scenario assumes 10 million people lost jobs; Medium: 21 million; High: 33 million
 

The rate of new lung cancer cases in California is 42.3 (national rate is 59.6). California ranks 3rd among all states, placing it in the above average tier.

The percent of people still alive five years after being diagnosed with lung cancer (the survival rate) in California is 21.5% (national rate is 21.7%). It ranks 20th among the 45 states with survival data, placing it in the average tier.

Comparing the average number of California deaths in a typical week in April to the number who died the week of April 5th due to COVID-19.

Heart Disease: 1,202
Cancer: 1,130
COVID-19 (Week of 4/5/20): 332
Stroke: 310
Alzheimer's Disease: 308
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 279
Accidents: 257
Diabetes: 177
Influenza and Pneumonia: 122
Hypertension: 103
Chronic Liver Disease/Cirrhosis: 102

Region  |  % of residents who think their local community doesn't have enough: Primary Care Providers  |  Specialists

San Joaquin Valley  |  49%  |  51% 
Inland Empire  |  46%  |  43%
Sacramento/North Valley  |  39%  |  40%
San Francisco Bay Area  |  29%  |  29%
Los Angeles County  |  27%  |  29%
South Coast  |  25%  |  25%

Source: California Health Care Foundation

Since 2005, Anthem has been directing funds through the Investment in a Healthy California Program (IHCP) to assist rural and urban healthcare facilities across the state to secure capital for construction, renovation and sustainability projects that strengthen their ability to support vulnerable communities. Anthem’s 2019 IHCP investments of $34 million have been slated for new construction, renovation and debt repayment projects in five California counties. Specifically, the funds have been accessed by the following organizations:

After restoring the penalty for remaining uninsured and boosting financial help to pay for coverage (two state provisions that are new in 2020):

* About 32,000 middle-income Californians who were not eligible for federal assistance qualified for state subsidies, which averaged $504 a month. A total of about 625,000 customers qualified for the state aid.

* The two provisions helped keep premium increases to a low 0.8%, on average, for 2020.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley, CA
Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, Newport Beach, CA
Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, Baldwin Park, CA
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, Woodland Hills, CA
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame, CA
Including: Mills Health Center, San Mateo, CA
Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge, CA

(Source: CDPH as of Tuesday March 17th:
 11,900 Number of people self-monitoring who returned to the U.S. from travel
    598   Positive cases
    574   Cases not related to repatriation flights
    253   Cases currently under investigation
    142   Community transmission cases
      91   Travel-related cases
      88   Person to person cases
      49   Number of local health jurisdictions involved in self-monitoring
      24   Cases of positive tests related to federal repatriation flights