Latest California Department of Public Health Stories

ONTARIO, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Healthcare Services is pleased to announce that the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on Sept. 30 officially dismissed all of the cases related to the diagnosis and coding of septicemia at Prime Healthcare hospitals. While CDPH found no deficiencies with the diagnosis and coding with cases related to malnutrition, it noted certain issues with follow up care. These issues have already been addressed and corrected. The cases...

Affordable Care Act to improve health in states and communities, which can control health care spending OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Public Health Institute was awarded $5,926,365 to reduce chronic disease and address health disparities in small and rural counties throughout California, an area with a total estimated population of 5,900,000, including a rural population of over 833,000. Work will focus on expanding efforts in tobacco-free living,...

A computer model of the spread of West Nile virus was able to predict areas where human cases would be concentrated, especially around Sacramento in 2005. The success of the model, say researchers, depended on its focus on biological factors and on a high volume of reports from members of the public. A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6 percent of human cases of the...

ONTARIO, Calif., May 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- California Watch's most recent article regarding the preliminary findings of California Department of Public Health (CDPH) pertaining to the diagnosis of septicemia at Prime Healthcare's hospitals is yet another example of its failure to gather all of the facts before publicizing baseless allegations fed by the union, SEIU. As demonstrated by Prime Healthcare's responses, CDPH's findings are erroneous and are the result of surveys performed by...

OAKLAND, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Six months after registered nurses filed a complaint with the California Department of Public Health regarding sweeping and pervasive patient care problems at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, state officials have yet to act, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United said today. The complaint cites case after case of substantial understaffing that has led to near misses of serious injuries: for newborn,...

LOS ANGELES, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Laurus Corporation is pleased to announce the completion of the improvements to the water treatment plant at Diablo Grande Community in Patterson, California. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100513/LA04945) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061212/LAURUSLOGO) Laurus Corporation and World International have been working diligently since taking over the residential development of the community to improve the water quality at...

The California Department of Public Health fined 13 hospitals $25,000 as part of violations that allegedly placed patients at risk. The Los Angeles Times said Thursday the only hospital to receive more than one violation citation was the University of California-Irvine Medical Center, which received $50,000 in fines for two alleged violations. The cases at the Irvine site that prompted the violations included a male nursing assistant being accused of inappropriately touching a female patient...

The number of patients whose hospital records were improperly accessed by UCLA Hospital System employes has topped 1,000, state officials say. Kathleen Billingsley, director of the California Department of Public Health's Center for Healthcare Quality, said the records of 1,041 patients have been breached, up from 939 in the state's last report in August, The Los Angeles Times reported. This was the sixth and final report issued by the health agency after a Times series of articles about...

By Tania Chatila The California Department of Public Health has concluded an investigation into the possession of fake cardiopulmonary resuscitation cards by workers at Citrus Valley Medical Center. According to a report released this week, the department found the facility failed to ensure conditions of employment were completed, and the facility failed to report the incident in a timely manner. Fifty-nine employees throughout the health care provider's four San Gabriel Valley campuses...

California officials say nearly twice as many UCLA Medical Center employees than previously thought have been peeking at celebrities' medical records. A report from by the California Department of Public Health also found two nurses and an emergency room technician had called up the medical records of a well-known individual in April after medical center officials had warned employees against accessing celebrities' records, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The report found that as...