SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Frontline healthcare workers announced that their proposed measure to improve quality, transparency, and accountability at California’s community health clinics, also known as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), has received its official title and summary from the California Attorney General’s Office.

At a time when all healthcare facilities are facing massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, healthcare workers say clinic dollars must go where they truly belong: patient care and the caregivers who provide that care.

“We’re calling for accountability because frontline workers and patients at community clinics deserve better,” said Brisa Barrera, a healthcare worker at a community clinic in Santa Rosa. “Clinics receive public dollars to serve vulnerable populations, but when that money is siphoned off for bloated administrative costs, it’s the patients and workers who suffer. This measure ensures that resources go where they’re needed most: into the clinics and toward care.”

The initiative, the Clinic Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, would require community health clinics to devote at least 90% of their total revenue to direct patient care and mission-related services. It would also require clinics to publicly report their financials and spending priorities, ensuring public funds and clinic revenues are used as intended: to improve access, expand services, and better meet the healthcare needs of local communities

With the title and summary now issued, healthcare workers and supporters will launch a statewide signature-gathering campaign to qualify the measure for the November 2026 ballot.

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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a healthcare justice union of more than 120,000 healthcare workers, patients, and healthcare activists united to ensure affordable, accessible, high-quality care for all Californians provided by valued and respected healthcare workers. Learn more at www.seiu-uhw.org.

SEIU Local 721 represents more than 100,000 workers – making it the largest public sector union in Southern California. SEIU Local 721 represents people working in hospitals, foster care, mental health, courts, law enforcement, libraries, street services, beach maintenance, sanitation, water treatment, parks services, and watershed management.

Paid for by Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers

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