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Rural Colorado Tries to Fill Health Worker Gaps with Apprenticeships

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — During her 12-hour overnight shift, Brianna Shelton helps residents at BeeHive Homes Assisted Living go to the bathroom. Many of them have dementia, and some can’t get out of bed on their own. Only a few can remember her name, but that doesn’t matter to her. “They’re…

Rural Seniors Reap Health Benefits from What UCSF First-Gen Nursing Program Sows

By Andrew Schwartz with photography by Elisabeth Fall. Reprinted with permission from the UCSF School of Nursing.

How to Increase Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Now

Photo: From the left: Maryam Alehashem, postdoctoral scholar, Berliza Soriano, doctoral student, and principal investigator Allison Williams, PhD, assistant professor at the UCSF School of Medicine, in the all-women, racially and culturally diverse Williams Lab, in Genentech Hall, at the UCSF…

32 Clinicians Selected for Next Round of CHCF Leadership Program

Thirty-two fellows have been selected for the next round of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, which helps clinicians develop and disseminate techniques to improve the operations of California’s safety-net institutions and the state’s overall health care system.

Unanswered Cries: Why California Faces a Shortage of Mental Health Workers

The need for therapists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists is greater than ever. Under relentless pressure from the pandemic and inflation, wildfires and gun violence, racism and war, Californians are crying out for help. But that doesn’t mean they can get it. In every corner of…

Healthforce Center Welcomes Five Summer Interns to UCSF!

Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to welcome five interns this summer! Working with interns is just one way in which Healthforce Center advances health equity by building pipelines of diverse health clinicians, researchers, and leaders. Internships such as these provides an opportunity for…

Confronting Implicit Bias to Adapt Depression Screening and Treatment

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

The California Improvement Network (CIN), a project of the California Health Care Foundation that is managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF, is a community of health care professionals that has been striving since 2005 to identify and spread ideas to improve health care delivery in California.…

Meet the Fifth Cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading Program

Thirty-two mid-level clinicians and administrative staff who work in community health centers and other safety-net organizations in Los Angeles have been selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program.

Workshop – Confronting Racism Denial: Tools for Naming Racism and Moving to Action

Racism is a major driver of health inequities in the United States. For most of our 30 years, Healthforce Center at UCSF has been working to advance health equity by building pipelines of diverse health leaders, strengthening the cultural competency of clinicians, and centering equity in quality…

Webinar: Enabling Dental Therapy Practice to Improve Access to Oral Health Services

For two decades, the US Surgeon General has highlighted large gaps in access to oral care and the “silent epidemic” of dental disease. More than 30% of the US population has difficulty accessing care. This has resulted in a call to action to increase workforce diversity, capacity, and flexibility…

Supporting Access and Equity in Primary Care Through New Payment Models

This panel discusses how Californians can work together to realize a future vision for primary care that addresses the issues of unequal access and disparities in health outcomes. The recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report on “Implementing High-Quality…