Blogs & News

Filtered by Tag:

A Retrospective of 2021 Progress at Healthforce Center

01-26-22
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
If 2020 was the year of a collective reckoning on racial injustice across the nation, then 2021 was the year of laser-like focus on how to redouble our efforts to advance equity and become more anti-racist. As Healthforce Center at UCSF will celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2022, we are taking...

Well-Being Strategies for the Health Care Workforce

10-30-21
Health systems are uniquely positioned to advance health equity by ensuring that their own workers are well, supported, and equipped to deliver high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how work environments in health systems affect the well-being of workers, whose capacity to deliver safe...

Dr. Elizabeth Mertz to Lead Research at Healthforce Center at UCSF

10-01-21
Healthforce Center at UCSF is excited to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Mertz has been appointed Associate Director of Research to succeed Dr. Joanne Spetz. In this role, Mertz will be responsible for developing new research opportunities and cultivating faculty connections.

Seven Lessons on Cultivating Connections and Staff Engagement

09-20-21
Renae Waneka, Senior Manager, People & Programs at Healthforce Center
With September comes a return to classes at UC San Francisco, and a new cycle of learning begins. Healthforce Center uses a dashboard of metrics to support and evaluate its internal learning and development. This year, I expected our staff engagement scores to be negatively affected by the...

California Faces Short-Term Nursing Shortage from COVID-19 Retirements

09-20-21
Rebecca Wolfson
California will face a significant shortfall of registered nurses over the next five years due to long-term trends that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care.

A New Effort to Train Health Workers Reimagines Health Care

09-20-21
Sara Rubin. Reprinted with permission by Monterey County Now.
Orlando Elizondo has spent a lot of time thinking about how health care is delivered – not in doctor’s offices or emergency rooms, but in the streets, at your front door, at church. He is a consultant whose clients include UC San Francisco, where a years-long effort at the Healthforce Center has...

Partnering to Solve Complex Problems: Advice from Dr. Sunita Mutha

08-17-21
“Show up fully. Move at a slow enough pace that you can be creative together. Leave room to be delighted. Be overly communicative.” This advice about how to build and nurture partnerships in the face of complex health care challenges was offered by Dr. Sunita Mutha, director of Healthforce Center...

You Can’t Just Be Anti-Racist at Work

05-20-21
“Structural racism.” “Institutional racism.” “Societal racism.” These are phrases that we commonly hear today that signal acknowledgement of the breadth and depth with which white supremacy maintains power in our lives.

How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Nursing Workforce

05-06-21
“Whenever somebody says, I think we have a nursing shortage, I think the answer we should all provide to that is, what do you mean by shortage? And where is it happening? It's really almost the beginning of the question, not the answer,” said Dr. Joanne Spetz, associate director of research at...

Is Cultural Competence Training a Solution to Structural Racism in Health Care?

04-21-21
Sunita Mutha, MD, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF
One of my passions in my work here at Healthforce Center at UCSF is advancing culturally competent care for all patients. Having served on multiple panels and boards, including the Joint Commission’s Expert Advisory Panel to develop standards for culturally competent care, I believe this is one...

Pages