John Sepulvado
Health Care Reporter
John Sepulvado began his journalism career covering the Texas
statehouse. He focused on the legislature's changes to medical
malpractice tort law. He started in radio with the NPR member
station in Tallahassee during the Jeb Bush era. Sepulvado covered
controversial Medicaid changes as well as the Terri Schiavo story.
In 2006, he teamed up with colleague Ben Adler to extensively cover
the outbreak of E. coli in California spinach. In 2007, Sepulvado
reported on the death of a young Floridian in state care. Those
reports led to a million dollar settlement between the state and
the family. In 2008, Sepulvado's reporting on a likely carcinogenic
chemical in the Northwest Georgia water supply helped spur major
changes to the local carpet industry that eliminated the chemical
from the manufacturing process. And in 2009 and 2010, Sepulvado's
joint reporting with Emily Green on a failed Georgia workers comp
company led to a state criminal investigation, as well as changes
to state law. Sepulvado joined Capital Public Radio in 2010 as our
Health Care Reporter.