There has been a troubling spike in coronavirus-positive hospital admissions among seniors in California, rising to levels not seen since the summer Omicron surge.

Blue Shield of California will be terminating 150 employees in the Sacramento region and 74 in Lodi as part of statewide layoffs affecting 373 people, according to notices the company filed with the state’s Employment Development Department. The company released a statement, saying: “As a nonprofit health plan, Blue Shield of California is driven by ...

Nurses and nurse practitioners at Kaiser Permanente voted overwhelmingly to ratify a four-year labor contract that secured them the biggest wage increases in about 20 years, their union announced Monday. The California Nurses Association represents more than 21,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners throughout the company’s Northern California operations. “With this new contract, we will ...

Anna Sutton was shocked when she received a letter from her husband’s job-based health plan stating that Humira, an expensive drug used to treat her daughter’s juvenile arthritis, was now on a long list of medications considered “nonessential benefits.” The July 2021 letter said the family could either participate in a new effort overseen by ...

Americans are unsure whether they will have enough money saved to live comfortably in retirement amid market volatility and continued inflationary impacts. According to new research from Principal, just one-third of U.S. workers say they’re confident they’ll have enough money saved to enjoy activities they’ve dreamed of in retirement, and nearly half have concerns about keeping ...

Cases of once-rare “superbug” Candida auris have climbed to 600 in Southern Nevada, with more than one-third identified at just two hospitals.