Dr. Anita Chandrasena
Health care providers are increasingly working together to respond to Californiaâs most urgent health needs. Thanks to these partnerships, patients can be transferred to trauma centers or referred to other physicians for specialized care, and patients in rural or underserved areas have access to care that wouldnât otherwise be available. But if a state bill working its way through the legislature becomes law, dozens of lifesaving programs across the state would no longer be possible.
SB 379 would bar the UC System from working with faith-based hospitals and could put an end to pediatric trauma care in the San Fernando Valley, the only cancer center in Merced, an HIV clinic in San Francisco, and many other crucial programs that exist because of partnerships between UC Health and Dignity Health. Across California, there are thousands of stories of patients receiving extraordinary care through programs that didnât exist prior to the par