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FOX 40 (KTXL Sacramento)

Sutter Health approved for expansive Folsom campus

Data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's evaluation of California's Whole Person Care program were cited in a television news report about Sutter Health expanding its medical offerings in Folsom and the surrounding foothills.
Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
KFF Health News

Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 21% of California dentists saw Medi-Cal patients of all ages, according to data from 2019 to 2021. Also published on California Health Line.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Nadereh Pourat
Quad-City Times (Illinois-Iowa)

12 Quad-Cities organizations to receive funds through Emergency Food and Shelter Program (paywall)

A 2021 report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research showed enrollees reported 45 fewer hospital stays and 130 fewer emergency room visits per 1,000 beneficiaries per year.

Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Planetizen

‘Parks After Dark’ Helps LA County Communities Thrive

Story on Planetizen about the Los Angeles County Parks After Dark program cites a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research evaluation of the program's outcomes and benefits.
Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Los Angeles Daily News

Los Angeles County program fights violence, obesity with an open-air approach

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's evaluation of the L.A. County Parks After Dark program that showed participants felt safe was cited in a story published in all six Southern California New Group papers, as well as the Los Angeles Post and San Fernando Sun.
Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
MyNewsLA.com

LA County Nighttime Recreation Program Finds Success, UCLA Study Finds

A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research evaluation of the Los Angeles County Parks After Dark program found that the program has largely been successful.
Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
Planetizen

Spring Fun at Los Angeles County Parks

The outcomes and benefits of Los Angeles County’s Parks After Dark Program have been well-documented. According to a recent evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 92 percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in L.A. County parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe. 

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Bakersfield Californian

More of the same: Medi-Cal expansion takes subtle form at the local level

Starting this year, California is extending its public health insurance coverage to undocumented adults between 26 and 49 years old, making the state the first to offer a comprehensive plan to those without legal status ... some researchers believe it will save the state money in the long run. But this all assumes people will sign up, said Nadereh Pourat, who heads the Center for Health Policy Research’s Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at UCLA.

Nadereh Pourat
My Science

92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. County parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
UCLA Newsroom

92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. county parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat