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Transforming California’s Behavioral Health Workforce

02-28-23
Two new reports released; webinar offered ways organizations can lead on this critical issue California is facing a drastic shortfall of behavioral health care providers that has been exacerbated by the pandemic, an aging workforce, high turnover, poor geographic distribution, and a workforce that...

Rural America Faces Major Shortage of Personal Care Aides

01-23-23
Personal care aides (PCAs) play a vital role in ensuring that people with disabilities and older adults remain in their homes and communities, but according to recent research by Healthforce Center’s Susan A. Chapman, Laura Wagner, and Timothy Bates, in partnership with Rayna Sage and colleagues at...

Community-Based Organizations to Join Reimagined California Improvement Network

01-11-23
Kathryn Phillips, Associate Director, California Health Care Foundation
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  

Community Clinic Workers in Los Angeles Now Invited to Build Leadership Skills

01-04-23
Applications for the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading program close Friday, March 17 Imagine spending a year with a small cohort of staff from other community clinics achieving personal development goals, learning how to improve health care delivery, receiving coaching on communication and...

Rural Colorado Tries to Fill Health Worker Gaps with Apprenticeships

11-29-22
Kate Ruder for Kaiser Health News. Reprinted with permission.
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

11-21-22
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

11-09-22
Nabiha Siddiqui based on work by Sunita Mutha, Janet Coffman, Susan Chapman, and Rebecca Hargreaves, Healthforce Center at UCSF
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

10-20-22
Dr. Michelle Schneidermann, director of CHCF’s People-Centered Care Team
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

09-08-22
CalMatters 9/08/2022 as part of their series on mental health care. Reprinted with permission. Illustration by Chanelle Nibbelink for CalMatters.
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!

07-25-22
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...

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