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California Needs Thousands of Nurses, but Leaders Can’t Agree on How to Fill Jobs

09-15-23
By Kristen Hwang. Reprinted with permission from CalMatters.

Understanding Indigenous Communities to Support Their Health Needs

08-17-23
California Improvement Network Team
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.

Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

07-03-23
By Robin Buller. Reprinted with permission from the California Health Care Foundation.
California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons

Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

07-03-23
By Robin Buller. Reprinted with permission from the California Health Care Foundation.
California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons

New Payment Streams Boost the Community Health Worker/Promotores Field

06-21-23
Jacqueline (Jackie) Miller, Senior Research Data Analyst, Healthforce Center at UCSF
In California, one of the most culturally diverse states in the country, health care must bridge cultural and linguistic divides to serve all communities equitably. As trusted community members with lived experience, community health workers and promotores de salud (CHW/Ps) are increasingly...

Planning for the Inevitable: Succession Planning for Senior Leaders

05-30-23
California Improvement Network Team
Succession planning is an often-neglected undertaking. It can be challenging to prioritize this essential task when teams are consumed with day-to-day operations. Some leaders struggle to face the possibility of a transition and delay thinking about the inevitable. Similarly, others may not want to...

Dr. Sunita Mutha on California’s Primary Care Shortage

05-19-23
About a third of Californians live in areas where there is a shortage of primary care clinicians. The shortage is particularly acute in rural areas such as the Inland Empire, Northern California and the Sierras, and San Joaquin Valley. The rapidly growing Inland Empire has only 40 primary care...

Introducing the New Cohort of the Managing to Leading Program

05-02-23
Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to announce the sixth cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program. Funded by Cedars-Sinai and administered by Healthforce Center, this program develops emerging leaders to foster the knowledge, skills, and...

Equitable Co-design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems

04-08-23
California Improvement Network Team
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...

First Primary Care Scorecard: What It Reveals and What Comes Next

03-20-23
Access to primary medical care is closely associated with better health outcomes for patients, fewer hospital visits, and longer life spans. Yet in the United States, primary care spending for all payers accounted for merely 4.6% to 12.1% of total health care expenditures, depending on how broadly...

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