The Affordable Care Act’s Bipartisan Support

The Affordable Care Act is personal for me. As a young adult under the age of 26, ACA allows me to stay on my parents' insurance plan. Though I've been lucky to avoid costly medical treatment, the coverage has provided me with peace of mind and delivered thousands of dollars in savings.

Aiming to Make California the Healthiest State

Could California become the healthiest state in the nation by 2022? That is the goal of Let’s Get Healthy California, a public-private initiative started in 2012 with the purpose of advancing the triple-aim, promoting health equity and leveraging innovation through collective impact. The...

Why Is Nursing Leadership and Management Important?

As the health care system continues to undergo rapid change, the nature of nurses’ roles are changing as well, according to Healthforce Center faculty research. As the largest licensed health professional group in the US, nurses are four times more prevalent than physicians.

Foreign-born Clinicians Essential to Underserved Populations

As a first-generation immigrant and political refugee from Russia, I understand the impact of federal policy on individual lives first-hand. While the transition from post-perestroika Moscow to San Francisco came with considerable challenges, my family encountered a general sentiment of acceptance...

ACA Repeal and Replace: Where Do We Stand?

Information overload or not enough information? These days it feels like both. Each morning brings a fresh news cycle, every week another report and each meeting we attend presents new stories and opinions. We are inundated with headlines and data, yet are still trying to understand the...

Despite ACA Uncertainty, Medical Assistants Adopt New Roles

Jeannine had been working as a medical assistant (MA) for 20 years when her clinic recruited her to take part in a “senior medical home” for frail elders. Along with other seasoned MAs from her clinic, she attended classes in geriatrics and motivational interviewing skills. She and other MAs were...

How to Navigate Uncertainty in Health Care

How are your organizations navigating the uncertainty in today’s health care environment? What’s keeping you up at night?

RNs are Vital to Home Health Care Tech Success

Patient-centered monitoring technologies have the potential to improve the efficiency, cost, and accountability of chronic health care delivery, according to Healthforce Center's report.

Lasting Lessons from a Community Clinic Initiative

Leticia Lozano, LVN, the Health Center Manager at the Achievable Foundation, completed Cedars-Sinai Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading Program in 2016. This intensive year-long leadership development program, funded by a generous grant from Cedars-Sinai, has helped participants like...

9 Tips for Safety Net Providers in the New Political Reality

For those who work in the safety net the future may feel uncertain, especially in this new political landscape. The stakes are high: Although the future of the Affordable Care Act is uncertain and information is rapidly changing, more than twenty-million Americans could lose their insurance...