Sometimes her days look like meticulously poring over spreadsheets. Other times they consist of designing and coding engaging graphics and tools to help Californians better understand their home and their neighbors. She aims to make public information actionable, accessible and digestible.
Erica earned a degree in journalism and information science from Northeastern University. As a student, she interned at the San Francisco Chronicle, CNBC and Boston.com. She is based in Oakland.
El Hospital Comunitario Martin Luther King Jr. está perdiendo dinero, pero se ha comprometido a mantener abierta su sala de partos. Su decisión va en contra de los hospitales cercanos que se están alejando de los servicios de maternidad.
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital is losing money, but it's committed to keeping open its labor ward. Its decision runs counter to nearby hospitals that are walking away from maternity services.
California voters this spring are considering a $6.4 billion bond that would build thousands of housing units and treatment beds for people with serious mental health conditions. A 2018 ballot measure that made similar promises offers lessons about the obstacles that stand in the way of construction.
As maternal mortality rates are steadily worsening across California, a CalMatters analysis finds that maternity wards are closing at an alarming rate.
De 2012 a 2019, al menos 19 hospitales de California dejaron de ofrecer servicios de maternidad y parto. Seis de esos hospitales cerraron por completo. En una tendencia cada vez mayor, dieciséis más cerraron sus salas de maternidad entre 2020 y 2022. En lo que va de 2023, 11 más han anunciado el cierre de […]
Read this story in English. Pocas regiones de California han escapado al impacto del cierre de las salas de maternidad en la última década. Al menos 46 hospitales han cerrado o suspendido permanentemente el trabajo de parto y servicios de maternidad desde 2012, según un análisis de CalMatters de los registros hospitalarios. Alrededor del 60% […]
Hospitals all over California are closing their maternity wards, including in dense cities like Los Angeles and in more remote communities in the Sierra Nevada.
Read this story in English. Después de que California invirtiera miles de millones para ayudar a los estudiantes a recuperarse de la pandemia, los puntajes de matemáticas y artes del lenguaje inglés desde kindergarten hasta el grado 12 se mantuvieron prácticamente estancados el año pasado y todavía muy por debajo de los niveles anteriores a […]
Thousands of Californians died from opioid overdoses in 2021. In response, many communities are making it easier to obtain life-saving overdose reversal drugs while some families are calling for tougher criminal penalties for fentanyl dealers.