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My Leadership Philosophy

08-09-17
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF
After nearly two decades of teaching, mentoring and managing, my leadership style and philosophy have evolved. I now know that leadership can be defined and practiced in many ways. Below are seven tenets about leadership that are true to me and the organization I lead, Healthforce Center at UCSF.

Restrictive Policies (and Politics) Impede Nurses, Fail Patients

08-04-17
Healthforce Center Associate Director of Research Joanne Spetz, PhD, was interviewed for a nursing website (onlinefnpprograms.com) about her research on policies, politics and nursing practice that affect nursing leaders across the country. Below are excerpts from that conversation.

Community Health Worker Joins Movement

07-18-17
Jackie Miller
As a community health worker (CHW) at Care Connections Program in Los Angeles County, Walfred Lopez acts as a liaison between patients and medical professionals to help people find resources and overcome challenges related to chronic conditions. He’s part of a growing movement of CHWs who joined...

People With Mental Illness Are Finding Work Helping Peers (NPR)

07-11-17
A new NPR story about peer support for people with mental illness in Texas, features Joanne Spetz, Healthforce Center's associate director of research.

CHCF Leadership Program Is Accepting Apps

06-22-17
Are you a health leader who wants leadership training in California? Time is running out to apply for the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program. Applications are due June 30, 2017.

Healthforce Center Celebrates 25 Years of Transforming Health Care

06-20-17
For 25 years Healthforce Center at UCSF has been developing leaders, disseminating policy-driven research and helping health care professionals across the country navigate change. In 2017, navigating change is more important than ever as health leaders face significant opportunities, and ambiguity...

The Importance of Why

06-14-17
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
In 2017, health care organizations face great uncertainty about funding for health care and the ability to sustain coverage and access for large numbers of people.

Millennial Healthcare Workers Get Political

06-13-17
Millennials have overtaken Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation, according to the Pew Research Center, but what does it mean for future healthcare leaders of America?

Making it Through the Wilderness

06-08-17
Maile Richardson
“Wandering around in the wilderness.” That’s how Teresa Simms, regional director of operations at North County Health Services, described her early experiences as a health care leader before she joined Clinic Leadership Institute (CLI) Emerging Leaders, a leadership training in health care program.

Leadership Program Spurs Transformation in Physician

05-03-17
Healthforce Center’s leadership development programs help leaders navigate change — and improve patient outcomes — through a process of individual transformation. Stanford University Professor Alan Glaseroff, MD, alum of one of our first leadership development cohorts, experienced that...

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