Reporting

<p>The future of Natividad</p> <p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/keeping-natividad… 1: On the verge of closure: Natividad's financial struggles threten its existence</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/keeping-natividad… 2: Turning around a public safety-net hospital: A last-ditch effort to save Natividad suceeds beyond expectations</a></p>

<p>The future of Natividad</p> <p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/keeping-natividad… 1: On the verge of closure: Natividad's financial struggles threten its existence</a></p> <p>Part 2: Turning around a public safety-net hospital: A last-ditch effort to save Natividad suceeds beyond expectations</p>

<p>Monterey County Herald reporter Jim Johnson examines efforts to save a financially-troubled safety-net hospital.</p>

<p>Reforms unlikely to defeat obesity</p>

<p>Studies have shown that breastfeeding significantly reduces health risks for babies and their mothers. So how many Californians are breastfeeding their babies? Not enough. See our interactive charts and sort the data by ethnicity, income and gender.

Visit Health Dialogues to view the graph:

http://www.kqed.org/assets/graph/breastfeeding/index.jsp</p&gt;

<p>Jennifer Bihm reports on how diabetes and a lack of care are affecting those living with the disease in South Los Angeles.</p>

Melissa Evans examines the extent of Southern California's hospital backup and emergency room overcrowding.

<p>Family counselor Jorge Ruiz Chacón follows an ancient path to healing. At Western Washington University, he learned the same techniques in college psychology courses that his grandmother taught him. He just learned them in a different way.</p>