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Building on its recent shift toward improving
health on the community level, the California
Endowment has become the primary mover in
a $200 million program intended to improve
access to capital to supermarket chains to
encourage them to open locations in woefully
underserved areas..
The pledge from the endowment will be
used to establish the
California FreshWorks
Fund. Although the
program will work
nationwide, much
attention will also be paid
to California, home to
many urban areas
demographers call food
deserts, where many
communities are served by little more than
liquor or convenience stores.
"Health happens in our neighborhoods.
Families can't eat healthier food if they can't
buy it where they live, said Robert K. Ross,
M.D., chief executive ofcer of the California
Endowment. Endowment ofcials also noted
that the project will also help add construction
and service jobs in California, where the
unemployment rate has been hovering above
12%.
A 2007 report by the Urban and
Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental
College concluded that three of the most
densely populated neighborhoods in Los
Angeles Pico-Union, Westlake/MacArthur
Park and South L.A. had a total of 15
supermarkets serving 15,000 people. Although
more markets have since opened in those
areas the areas remain acutely underserved.
Overall, about 1.7 million Californians
live in areas where they are one mile or
further away from a
supermarket. They are 20%
more likely to be obese
than those who live closer
to markets, leading to
expensive health
conditions such as diabetes
and heart disease.
The collaboration
includes 18 different
entities, including banks, supermarket chains
and healthcare providers. The sheer number
of banks and other investors involved proves
that this is not only the right thing to do to
improve the health of our communities, but
its nancially attractive, Ross said.
One leading local collaborator is the
Southern California division of Kaiser
Permanente, which is pledging $1 million
toward the FreshWorks Fund. The money will
be used to help add new food retail space, or
expand existing spaces. Kaiser has been
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DMHC On Autism
Treatments
Anthem Blue Cross of California and
Blue Shield of California have come
to terms with the Department of
Managed Health Care to provide
specic treatments to its enrollees
who suffer from autism.
The deal with Anthem,
announced on Tuesday, will cover up
to 4,000 children who suffer from
autism. Anthem has agreed to pay for
a therapeutic treatment known as
applied behavioral analysis. The
treatment, which focuses on behavior
modications, is intended to help
autistic kids better adapt to their
environment.
Although studies have been
made about the efcacy of ABA,
insurers such as Anthem and Blue
Shield had resisted covering the
treatment, claiming it was
experimental or not medical in
nature, or have not included licensed
therapists within its provider
networks.
In the settlements, Anthem and
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be provided by unlicensed personnel,
but agreed to cover treatments
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wrongdoing.
Rather than just dealing a
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an enforcement action, this is another
positive step towards mending the
broken system for California families
dealing with this issue, said Edward
Heidig, the DMHCs interim director.
Blue Shields settlement with the
DMHC, announced last week, came
at nearly the same time that the
Department of Insurance ordered
Blue Shield to cease and desist in
refusing to cover ABA.
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sponsoring farmers markets in underserved
areas such as Watts in South Los Angeles.
"The availability of healthy foods where
we live does inuence what we choose to eat,
which can affect the prevalence of obesity,
diabetes, and other weight-related illnesses,"
said Amy Porter, M.D., a Kaiser pediatrician
who practices in Baldwin Park and leads a
weight management initiative for children in
Southern California.
Catholic Healthcare West, Bank of
America, U.S. Bank and Morgan Stanley have
also pledged funding.
For the moment, specic details about
California-centric projects remain sketchy.
Major retailers such as Wal-Mart and
Walgreens have agreed to use funding from
the program to help expand.
Walgreens, which is a drug store chain
based in the Midwest, said it would carry
produce and other non-processed food
products at 1,000 of its locations.
However, many other retailers that have
signed up to the FreshWorks initiative plan to
build new locations in other states.

UCLA Settles Data Breach Charges
Agrees to Extensive Corrective Action Plan
UCLA Health System has agreed to pay
$865,500 in nes in order to settle breaches of
condential medical records that occurred
between 2005 and 2008.
An investigation was launched by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
Ofce of Civil Rights in June 2009 after two
unidentied celebrities who were patients at
UCLA submitted complaints that their medical
records were accessed by employees who had
no need to access them.
The issue of patient data breaches at UCLA
has been going on since the middle of last
decade, leading to the discipline of dozens of
employees and physicians. In 2007, former
employee Lawanda Jackson faced criminal
charges after selling the medical records of
Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett to tabloid
newspapers. Jackson pled guilty to federal
charges in 2008, but died of breast cancer
before her scheduled sentencing in March
2009.
Covered entities are responsible for the
actions of their employees. This is why it is vital
that trainings and meaningful policies and
procedures, including audit trails, become part
of the everyday operations of any healthcare
provider, said OCR Director Georgina
Verdugo. Employees must clearly understand
that casual review for personal interest of
patients protected health information is
unacceptable and against the law.
The money will go directly to HHS.
UCLA did not admit to any wrongdoing. In a
statement, the system said over the past three
years, we have worked diligently to strengthen
our staff training, implement enhanced data
security systems and increase our auditing
capabilities.
Under the terms of the settlement, UCLA
ofcials agreed to a three-year corrective
action plan that includes an independent
monitor and special training of employees
who have access to patient medical records.
"Our patients' health, privacy and well-
being are of paramount importance to us,"
UCLA Health System Chief Executive Ofcer
David T. Feinberg. "We appreciate the
involvement and recommendations made by
OCR in this matter and will fully comply with
the plan of correction it has formulated. We
remain vigilant and proactive to ensure that
our patients' rights continue to be protected at
all times."
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UCLA Introduces New
Surgical Program
The UCLA Health System has
launched a new program that will
focus on hand transplants and other
new and exceedingly delicate
reconstructive procedures.
The new UCLA Section of
Reconstructive Transplantation will
help to repair disguring injuries to
the upper extremities, face and
abdomen using microsurgical
procedures that can repair extensive
nerve and arterial damage. The new
program will work closely with the
existing sold organ transplant
programs.
"Reconstructive transplantation is
where we were with solid-organ
transplantation in the mid-1980s," said
Ronald W. Busuttil, M.D., executive
chair of the department of surgery at
the David Geffen School of Medicine.
"With the experience that has been
accrued in several centers throughout
the world with reconstructive
transplantation, it is clear that for
certain patients, the outcomes can be
life-changing and that major
transplant centers such as UCLA
should be pursuing this approach."
San Francisco Health
Plan Wins DHCS Award
San Francisco Health Plan, which
provides Medi-Cal managed care for
60,000 Bay Area residents, received
the Gold Award for excellence in care
from the California Department of
Health Care Services.
SFHP is the only one of the
states 21 Medi-Cal managed care
plans that achieved high HEDIS scores
in 11 of the 15 categories in which
quality of care is measured.
"This award acknowledges the
effort of the San Francisco provider
network," said SFHPs Medical
Director, Kelly Pfeifer, M.D.. "Instead
of waiting until patients are sick, our
doctors and clinics reach out to make
sure our members are getting the
preventive care...to stay healthy.
The California Department of Managed
Health Care has ned Blue Shield of
California $40,000 for retroactively
terminating the coverage of a cancer patient
who had retained coverage after leaving her
employer.
The DMHC levied the ne against the San
Francisco-based health plan for four violations
of the state Health and Safety Code and the
Code of Regulations, including improper
notication of termination of coverage and
retroactively terminating coverage.
According to DMHC correspondence, the
enrollee had coverage through a small group
plan provided by her employer. She continued
the coverage after leaving the job through
Californias COBRA program. Although she
made all of her premium payments on time,
the employer stopped paying its premiums,
resulting in the termination of her coverage.
The enrollee had already received
authorization for and was undergoing
treatments for cancer when Blue Shield
retroactively canceled her coverage and said it
would not pay for the care she received. The
DMHC determined that this constituted
cancellation without prior notice.
Blue Shield did not immediately respond
to comment.
The ne is among the largest of the 181
administrative actions levied against the health
plan by the DMHC since 2001.
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Chu Named To AHA Chairmanship
Prestigious Post Given to Kaisers So. Calif. Chief
The head of Kaiser Permanentes Southern
California division has been
named the chairman designate
for the nations leading hospital
lobby.
Benjamin K. Chu, M.D.,
group president of Kaiser
Southern California, was elected
to the position by the American
Hospital Association board of
directors earlier this week. He
will begin serving a one-year
term in 2013.
Chu will be the second
Southern California hospital executive to
chair the AHA in less than four years.
Thomas M. Priselac, chief executive ofcer
of the Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los
Angeles, served as AHA chairman in 2009.
"It is my privilege to serve in
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!A key part of the Patient Protection and
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that these exchanges may end up the measure
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Will employers participate? While nobody
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Pacic Community Ventures released in March
revealed that 555 of Californias small business
owners would participate in an exchange once
provided basic information on how they work.
This is signicant as today there are 47 million
Americans working at 5.9 million small
businesses.!These workers are almost three times
as likely to be uninsured as those who work for
large businesses.
For Californias hospitals, exchanges create a
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patients which will lead to expanded
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nations most successful private
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Now lets all pull together to make them work.
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Keeping Tabs On The Exchanges
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