Last Year’s State Budget Bearing Fruit – Half a Billion Dollars for Housing and Services for People Experiencing Severe Mental Illness and Substance Abuse “$518.5 million in funding will add treatment beds for more than 1,000 people at a time, plus
The Senate Rules Committee held confirmation hearings for Christina L. Edens, Chief Deputy Director, and Brent J. Houser, Chief Deputy Director, Operations, to the Department of State Hospitals. For those of you interested in IST-related issues, you may want to review
NP “Clean-up” bill – CMA Supports, AB 852 Now Relates to Dispensing The old version of AB 852 (Wood) (a holdover from 2021, or “two-year bill”) would have added the new category of nurse practitioners who are authorized to practice independently
Roula Creighton reflects on her time as Chair
Proposed bill would allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify an injury for purposes of compensating federal workers.
The five California district branches of the American Psychiatric Association are again together in one truly statewide advocacy organization.