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It is administered by the California Department of Health Care Services, which operates it in accordance with California's Medicaid State Plan and Title XIX of the Social Security Act. [7] California relies on Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to support the Covered California program.
In November 2004, voters in the U.S. state of California passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which has been designed to expand and transform California's county mental health service systems. The MHSA is funded by imposing an additional one percent tax on individual, but not corporate, taxable income in excess of one ...
Advocates like Karen Vicari, director of Public policy for Mental Health America of California, which advocates for mental health services and which opposes Prop. 1, believe that it will lead to ...
Mental Health in California: For Too Many, Care Not There, published as part of CHCF's California Health Care Almanac, provides an overview of mental health in California: disease prevalence, suicide rates, supply and use of treatment providers, and mental health in the correctional system, plus data on spending and quality of care. [19] Why ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two major pieces of legislation Thursday to transform the state's mental health system and address the state's worsening homelessness crisis, putting them both ...
Primary care has often been termed the de facto mental health system in the United States. [7] Research shows that approximately half of all mental health care services are provided solely by primary care providers. [8] Furthermore, primary care practitioners prescribe about 70% of all psychotropic medications and 80% of antidepressants. [9]
Roughly 150 health care workers will rally and picket Wednesday outside the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, protesting wages and staffing levels at the hospital run by Sutter Health ...
The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.