MICRA—California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act—is under threat by a ballot initiative that would create a new category of “catastrophic damages,” with awards not subject to any cap on noneconomic damages – virtually eliminating MICRA’s protections. The initiative will be voted on in November 2022.

The California Medical Association (CMA) is mobilizing to defeat this measure and medical staffs across the state are joining the effort by donating funds to the CMA Political Education Fund (PEF), which pays for all the physician education, training and mobilization work that will be necessary to protect MICRA. Our work would not be possible without help from our leadership physicians who are informing their colleagues, making presentations at medical staffs and soliciting funds.

If your medical staff has not yet donated to PEF, or your medical staff wishes to increase their support, please contact Micah Scheindlin at MScheindlin@cmadocs.org for information.

We thank the medical staffs from the following hospitals who have pledged their financial support of PEF:

• Adventist Health Ukiah Valley - $8,000

• Barstow Community Medical Center - $22,550

• Chapman Global Medical Center - $10,000

• Children’s Hospital of Orange County - $20,000 Community Memorial Hospital - $4,000

• Doctors Medical Center - $25,000

• Dominican Hospital - $5,000

• Eden Medical Center - $25,000

• Eisenhower Medical Center - $50,000

• El Centro Regional Medical Center - $25,000

• Kaweah Delta Health Care District - $10,000

• Madera Community Hospital - $2,000

• MarinHealth Medical Center - $1,000

• Mercy Hospital of Folsom - $20,000

• Mercy Medical Center Merced - $5,000

• Mercy Medical Center Redding - $40,000

• Mercy San Juan Medical Center - $40,000

• Methodist Hospital of Sacramento - $10,000

• Northbay Medical Center - $50,000

• Palmdale Regional Medical Center - $10,000

• Palomar Medical Center - $45,000

• Paradise Valley Hospital - $75,000

• PIH Health Hospital – Whittier - $15,000

• Providence Tarzana Regional Medical Center - $50,000

• Redlands Community Hospital - $24,000

• Saint Agnes Medical Center - $5,000

• Saint Bernardine Medical Center - $10,000

• Providence St. Joseph Hospital Orange - $20,000

• San Antonio Regional Hospital - $2,000

• San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital - $20,000

• Scripps Memorial Hospital – Encinitas - $10,000

• Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center - $50,000

• Sharp Coronado Hospital - $20,000

• Sharp Grossmont Hospital - $20,000

• Sharp Memorial & Mesa Vista Hospitals - $100,000

• Sonoma Valley Hospital - $5,000

• St. John’s Regional Medical Center - $50,000

• St. Mary Medical Center Apple Valley - $76,000

• Stanford Healthcare ValleyCare - $5,000

• Sutter Davis Hospital - $10,000

• Sutter Delta Medical Center - $10,000

• Sutter Solano Medical Center - $15,000

• Victor Valley Global Medical Center - $60,000

• Whittier Hospital Medical Center - $1,000