The public health care system and academic medical center, which operates a 459-bed acute-care hospital serving a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, went beyond providing its patients with the ability to talk with their clinicians over phone and video at home or work to the next level of telehealth: remote patient monitoring.
Article by: Aisling Carroll Since the pandemic began, residents of Kern County have landed inside Kern Medical in non-stop numbers. And it’s not just due to contracting COVID-19, which has been consistently higher here than in other parts of the state. In a continuous cascade of cases, people are rushed to the hospital’s Trauma Center. They’ve crashed in motor vehicle
OAKLAND, CA, February 9, 2022 – Today, Assemblymember Luz Rivas (D-San Fernando Valley) introduced AB 1894, legislation that would create an important process to strengthen public health care system financing and ensure continued access to high quality, value-based care for more than 3.7 million patients served each year. AB 1894 is co-sponsored by the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health
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