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California Healthline: Special Audio Reports

Summary: California Healthline is a free news digest reporting on health care policy and politics. Each Friday, California Healthline’s theWeekly provides highlights from the past week's news and events, as well as a preview of the week ahead. Included are links to the week's top stories, updates on developments in the California Legislature, and a digest of recent health policy studies in prominent research journals.

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Podcasts:

 California Moving Ahead With Efforts To Boost Adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:02

Robin Affrime of the Redwood Community Health Coalition, Carmella Castellano-Garcia of the California Primary Care Association and Speranza Avram of CalHIPSO share their thoughts on CalHIPSO's mission.

 Shift in Economic Conditions Diminishes Job Prospects for Nursing School Graduates in Calif. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:07

Kathleen Dracup of the UCSF School of Nursing, Jan Emerson of the California Hospital Association, Deloras Jones of the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care and Brandy Logue of Samuel Merritt University share their thoughts on the situation.

 New Program Brings Health Care Stakeholders Together To Curb Hospital-Acquired Infections | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:56

Gene Grigsby of the National Health Foundation, Leslie Margolin of Anthem Blue Cross, Jon Rosenberg of DPH and the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California's Mary Lopez and Scott Seamons shared their thoughts on the new initiative.

 Health Advocates, Legislators See Little To Like in Governor's Proposed Health Program Cuts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:01

Carla Kakutani of the California Academy of Family Physicians, Wendy Lazarus of the Children's Partnership, Assembly member Jim Nielsen and Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg discussed the governor's plan.

 New Jobs Training Effort Could Strengthen California's Allied Health Care Work Force | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:07

Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University's Center for Health Policy and Cathy Martin of the California Hospital Association spoke with California Healthline about the possible impact of health care worker training programs.

 Federal Stimulus Funds Aim To Help Medi-Cal Providers Adopt Electronic Health Record Tools | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:20

Kim Ortiz of the Department of Health Care Services, Sean South of the California Primary Care Association and Mary Szecsey of West County Health Centers spoke with California Healthline about the new federal funds.

 New National Nurses Union Could Exert More Pressure on State, National Health Care Policy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:40

Deborah Burger of the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Union and Harley Shaiken of UC-Berkeley spoke with California Healthline about a recent merger between three large nursing unions.

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