Listening to Community Voices: A Health Plan’s Approach to Improving Maternity Care
By California Improvement Network on
Through structured conversations, interviews, interactions, and observations of in-person activities with providers, health plan members, and CBOs, Molina Healthcare identified three essential learnings that might be helpful to other organizations collaborating with communities on reducing racial…
Going Beyond ROI to Create Cultures of Equity: How Internal DEIB Impacts Community Health Outcomes
By By Jenn Schindel, PhD on
Health care leaders are asked to demonstrate how internal organizational diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) investments impact community health equity outcomes. To answer this question, Healthforce Center at UCSF, as part of their work leading the California Improvement Network (CIN…
Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?
By By Robin Buller. Reprinted with permission from the California Health Care Foundation. on
California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons
The US Supreme Court outlawed the use of affirmative action on June 29, deciding that race and ethnicity can no longer be considered primary factors in university admissions.
Healthforce Center's Journey to Advance Equity in Our Workplace
By By Marie Hubbard, Senior Program Manager and Dr. Sunita Mutha, Director on
Photo: Healthforce Center staff volunteering at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank in October 2023, from left: Kyoko Peterson, Sofia Sandoval, Melissa Lucas, Khadijat Alli, Xenia Mendez, Marie Hubbard, Vaishnavi Vaidya, Janet Coffman, Sunita Mutha, Sutep Laohavanich, Beth Mertz, and Liwam Nerayo.…
Closing the Gender Pay Gap for Female Nurses Promotes Equity and Supports the Health Care Workforce
By Ulrike Muench, RN, PhD, FAAN, Faculty, Healthforce Center at UCSF on
Patterns of pay disparities based on gender continue to be a high-priority concern for the health care workforce. Recent legislation and policies at all levels of government have been passed with the goal to end gender inequity in pay, recognizing the right to equal pay for doing equal work or work…
Understanding Indigenous Communities to Support Their Health Needs
By California Improvement Network Team on
Indigenous communities in California and throughout the United States face striking health disparities. At 71.8 years, American Indian and Alaska Native individuals have the lowest life expectancy compared with other races and ethnicities.
First Primary Care Scorecard: What It Reveals and What Comes Next
Equitable Co-design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems
By California Improvement Network Team on
While many health care organizations recognize the urgency of addressing inequities in health, efforts to do so are often slow, incremental, or incomplete. The health care system at large struggles to meaningfully incorporate and center “end users” of services (such as patients, administrative…
Community-Based Organizations to Join Reimagined California Improvement Network
By Kathryn Phillips, Associate Director, California Health Care Foundation on
Photo: Brett Perkinson receives his weekly supply of medically tailored meals delivered from a community-based organization to his home in Aptos, just outside of the city of Santa Cruz. Credit: Shmuel Thaler
Confronting Implicit Bias to Adapt Depression Screening and Treatment
By Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH, Program Manager, Healthforce Center at UCSF on
Over the past 20 years, Tennessee has seen immense growth in the Latinx population due to a steady influx of migrant agriculture workers. To meet the health care needs of families in this community, Cherokee Health Systems (CHS), an integrated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) opened a…
Celebrating our Achievements: CIN Advanced Racial Health Equity and More
