Medical

More than 122,000 Inland Empire residents have signed up for healthcare insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act. That figure exceeded expectations for the two-county region: officials had predicted that 76,000 residents would sign up for the ACA, according to Covered California, the state exchange that administers the program. Statewide, …

East Valley Community Health Center in Pomona has a new home. On Tuesday, health care professionals and local dignitaries gathered at the center’s new facility, a former grocery store in the 1500 block of South Garey Avenue, according to a report originally published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The …

Health insurance subsidies associated with the Affordable Care Act will cost slightly less than previously expected.   The subsidies under Obamacare will total a little more than $1 trillion during the next 10 years, rather than close to $1.2 trillion, as originally estimated, according to a report released today by …

A last-minute surge of enrollees in the Affordable Healthcare Act forced the closure of some options on www.CoveredCa.com., the website that is handling signups for the program in California. The action was taken so that people would be able to start the enrollment process before midnight Tuesday, when open-enrollment for …

Obamacare appears to be gaining popularity in the Inland Empire. Nearly 35,000 San Bernardino County residents had signed up for the national health insurance program as of Jan. 31, according to Covered California, the state agency that is administering the federal program. That’s 96 percent of what Covered California had …

For the second consecutive year, St. Bernardine Medical Center received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence by Healthgrades according to a release. This places the hospital among the nation’s top five percent of hospitals for its overall clinical performance. “It’s great to be recognized as a leader in quality …