Rising Reliance on Contract CNAs in Nursing Homes: Unveiling the Impact on Care Quality and Workforce Stability
By Lina Stepick, Director of Research, PHI on
PHI in partnership with the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care released a new study showing startling trends in the use of contract CNAs to fill staffing gaps in nursing homes.
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.
Rural America Faces Major Shortage of Personal Care Aides
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…
Dr. Sunita Mutha on California’s Primary Care Shortage
Introducing the New Cohort of the Managing to Leading Program
Planning for the Inevitable: Succession Planning for Senior Leaders
By California Improvement Network Team on
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…
New Payment Streams Boost the Community Health Worker/Promotores Field
By Jacqueline (Jackie) Miller, Senior Research Data Analyst, Healthforce Center at UCSF on
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…
Transforming California’s Behavioral Health Workforce
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
