Innovations in Health Reform Updates - The Children's Partnership

California Kids' Dental Access Bill Advances

Dr. Bicuspid.com

The Assembly Health Committee in California has voted unanimously in support of bill SB 694, which would authorize a study to test new workforce models with the goal of increasing access to dental care for California's children.

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Terms:Dental Health, Press Clips

Kids' Advocates Still Fighting to Save Healthy Families Program

KQED

Wendy Lazarus, co-president of The Children's Partnership, wants lawmakers to stick with their original plan, which would put 200,000 Healthy Families children into Medi-Cal as a test run.

"We believe that by putting added pressure on a very fragile Medi-Cal system right now,” says Lazarus, “that the plan will endanger access to care for as many as 4.5 million kids - so the Healthy Families kids and the children now in Medi-Cal.”

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Terms:California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Last Ditch Effort to Block Plan to Dissolve Healthy Families

Mercury News

"Medi-Cal already faces serious challenges in providing access for 3.5 million kids served by it today, and it's straining to serve them well," said Wendy Lazarus, founder and co-president of The Children's Partnership, which outlined demands in a letter co-signed by 64 groups. "But by putting added pressure on a very fragile Medi-Cal system now, the plan will endanger access to care for as many as 4.5 million kids."

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Terms:California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Jenny Kattlove on Expanding California's Dental Workforce

Los Angeles Times

"The proposed California study should look at treating children in schools, using technology to expand care and developing two- or three-year training programs for dental workers," said Jenny Kattlove, Director of Strategic Health Initiatives.

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Terms:California, Dental Health, Jenny Kattlove, Press Clips

It's Time to Protect Healthy Families

Calitics

Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President, on a common-sense, alternative approach to the Healthy Families shift to Medi-Cal.

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Terms:Blog, California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

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California Kids' Dental Access Bill Advances

Kids' Advocates Still Fighting to Save Healthy Families Program

Last Ditch Effort to Block Plan to Dissolve Healthy Families

Jenny Kattlove on Expanding California's Dental Workforce

It's Time to Protect Healthy Families

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