Governor Gavin Newsom launched a major new initiative Monday to expand California’s health care workforce and recruit health care professionals to address the coronavirus, COVID-19, surge, officials said. Health care professionals with an active license, public health professionals, medical retirees, medical and nursing students, or members of medical disaster response teams in California are all encouraged to join the new ...

The three Providence medical centers in the San Fernando Valley earned a total of nine Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards this week for outstanding clinical performance. Each of the hospitals also received top national acclaim, officials said Tuesday. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank was named among Healthgrades’ America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Specialty Care for vascular surgery, among the ...

New nurse-led research into bedside healthcare places focus on improving patient outcomes, addressing points of quality, compassion and dignity. New diagnostic tools, procedures, medications and treatment programs have advanced healthcare over the decades, the products of high level physician research. At the same time, hands-on patient care continues to improve in Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals across Los Angeles and ...

A Santa Clarita woman with Lyme disease has set up a GoFundMe Page to help pay for medical bills that are not covered by her insurance. When Sara Sterkel was 13 years old, she had a bite and a rash and experienced flu-like symptoms, she said in a GoFundMe page.  “I was taken to a very large and well-known medical ...

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center has been selected by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the 2019 “Best Places to Work in Healthcare,” officials said Tuesday. Providence Holy Cross is among five in the state and one of the only medical centers in Los Angeles County to be included in the annual survey, which also included healthcare companies such as ...

Providence St. Joseph Health and Cedars-Sinai are set to join together in an effort to enhance services, programs and access to medical care for their patients, officials said Tuesday. The medical center’s new name is set to be Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center. Providence plans to retain controlling interest in the medical center, which is also expected to keep its ...

Two Santa Clarita flu clinics are set to offer free flu shots, provided by the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, for residents who don’t have insurance. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Along with fall days, flu season is coming and the first and most important step in preventing ...

Kaiser Permanente Santa Clarita is now accepting online applications for grants of up to $20,000 for organizations who benefit the public health of the community. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. In a news release distributed on Monday, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clarita announced that it is accepting community grant applications for 2018. ...

About a dozen of students and parents from the Santa Clarita Valley were in Sacramento on Monday to advocate for a new Bill of Rights to guarantee the ‘inherent rights’ of children. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The group joined about 300 students, parents and teachers from all over the state ...

Congressman Steve Knight spoke with local students and answered a range of questions from health care to foreign affairs at an open forum held Monday at College of the Canyons. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Knight fielded questions from students in a classroom at the Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University ...