A livable city should have an adequate number of public toilets. Urban planners plan for public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit and parks, but they almost never plan for providing public [...] Continue Reading
We Are on Our Own
On Dec. 20, 2022, the Fresno Bee reported on the status of hospital beds during the current surge of Covid-19, influenza, RSV and other respiratory infections. As of Dec. 20, Fresno County hospital [...] Continue Reading
10 Years of Covered California
Ten years ago, Covered California started to enroll people to its wide variety of health insurance options. Called a “market of health insurance,” its originality resides in the chance to shop for the [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
On Nov. 10, the small town of Orosi in northern Tulare County was the setting as more than a hundred residents from various counties across the San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Fresno, Madera, Stanislaus, [...] Continue Reading
Covered California Cumple 10 Años
Hace diez años, Covered California comenzó a inscribir a las personas en su amplia variedad de opciones de seguro médico. Llamado “mercado de seguros de salud”, su originalidad reside en la [...] Continue Reading
Lack of Toilets for Homeless a Public Health Crisis
By age 40, Jack Sim had gotten rich off the construction industry in Singapore. (No, life “didn’t end” for him then.) At 41, he founded the restroom association in that sovereign nation-state that [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading
Community Medical Centers Disinvestment in Fresno
History of Segregation and Disinvestment Fresno was founded in April 1872, when the robber baron (some prefer “captain of industry”) Leland Stanford designated a site for a railway station [...] Continue Reading
Deadly Hospitals, Divided Houses
Are hospitals killing Fresno? Has the House of Labor split asunder? Is the Democratic Party divided? Why, yes, but that’s nothing new, it’s just much worse than anyone realized. Underlying the [...] Continue Reading
Nuevo Refuerzo Contra Covid 19 Trae Más Seguridad
Covid 19 sigue entre nosotros, aunque gracias al mayor nivel de vacunación, los contagios han disminuido y también las muertes e internaciones hospitalarias. Sin embargo, los especialistas recomiendan [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading
Now Is Not the Time to Drop Our Guard on Covid
Health experts say that even as more people are vaccinated and boosted, the coronavirus is here to stay. And they warn that future variants will likely keep medical practitioners and researchers on [...] Continue Reading