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Mission Integration: Behavioral Health Strategies to Achieve Whole Health (webinar)

12-04-19
L.A. Care Health Plan and Healthforce Center at UCSF are partnering together to host a four-part seminar series focused on providing topical content to clinic leaders in the Los Angeles county safety net. This seminar series is tailored for alumni from leadership programs including L.A. Care’s...

Health Care’s Problems Too Big to Handle Alone

11-20-19
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
The challenges facing health care are too big for individuals or individual organizations to handle alone. Solving these problems requires collaboration among payors, plans, foundations, educational institutions, and health care systems in both the safety net and commercial sectors. It requires...

Increasing Access to HIV Prevention Medication

11-19-19
Jackie Miller
Special acknowledgement to Maria Lopez for her contributions to this article.

Third Cohort of Cedars-Sinai's Community Clinic Initiative Managing to Leading Kicks Off

10-07-19
Thirty mid-level clinicians, administrators and other non-clinical staff who work in community clinics in Los Angeles have been selected to participate in Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading. Administered by Healthforce Center at UCSF, this program equips leaders with...

California Poised to Reduce Medical Education Debt Burden for Underrepresented Minorities

09-04-19
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
Medical education debt has nearly tripled during the past few decades, and our new report finds that Black, Latino and Native American students face significantly higher levels of debt than White students. For example, nearly half of Black students had $300,000 or more in dental school debt,...

Healthforce Alum Recruits Young People to Diversify Health Care Workforce

08-19-19
Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, MD is an emergency department physician who's on a mission to ensure that health care providers reflect the racial and gender diversity of the patients they serve.

California Offers Student Debt Relief for Doctors and Dentists Serving Medicaid Patients (NY Times, LA Times, Sacramento Bee)

07-25-19
California is providing debt relief for doctors and dentists who agree to accept Medi-Cal. The grant has lifted “an emotional burden,” one recipient said in The New York Times, adding, “I can focus on my patients.”

Researcher of the Month: Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP

07-15-19
Healthforce Center at UCSF Director Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, was featured in the UCSF Office of Research series, "Researcher of the Month." The article highlights Healthforce Center's role as the leading research organization producing information and evidence to understand the health care workforce...

Three Health Care Professions to Pay Attention to this Minority Mental Health Month

07-15-19
One in five adults experience mental illness in a given year, and mental health conditions are exacerbated among minority groups. For example, the rate of depression among black youth is 30% higher than the average for their age group. Multiracial US adults are more likely to experience mental...

Many Nurse Practitioners Cannot Provide Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction

04-09-19
At least six states with high opioid abuse rates also have strong work restrictions that hinder nurse practitioners (NPs) in prescribing medication that can help treat the problem, according to a study by researchers at Healthforce Center and UCSF.

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