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Understanding Indigenous Communities to Support Their Health Needs

August 17, 2023

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...

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Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

July 3, 2023

California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons By Robin Buller. Reprinted with permission from the California Health Care Foundation. The US Supreme Court outlawed the...

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New Payment Streams Boost the Community Health Worker/Promotores Field

June 21, 2023

By Jacqueline (Jackie) Miller, Senior Research Data Analyst, Healthforce Center at UCSF In California, one of the most culturally diverse states in the country, health care must bridge cultural and...

Planning for the Inevitable: Succession Planning for Senior Leaders

May 30, 2023

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...

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Dr. Sunita Mutha on California’s Primary Care Shortage

May 19, 2023

About a third of Californians live in areas where there is a shortage of primary care clinicians. The shortage is particularly acute in rural areas such as the Inland Empire, Northern California and...

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Introducing the New Cohort of the Managing to Leading Program

May 2, 2023

Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to announce the sixth cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program. Funded by Cedars-Sinai and administered by...

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Equitable Co-design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems

April 8, 2023

By the California Improvement Network Team Photo of Stella Safo, Karyn Young-Lowe, and Sunita Mutha at the CIN partner meeting in March 2023 (photo credit: Sonya Yruel). While many health care...

First Primary Care Scorecard: What It Reveals and What Comes Next

March 20, 2023

Access to primary medical care is closely associated with better health outcomes for patients, fewer hospital visits, and longer life spans. Yet in the United States, primary care spending for all...

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Transforming California’s Behavioral Health Workforce

February 28, 2023

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...

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Rural America Faces Major Shortage of Personal Care Aides

January 23, 2023

New research selected by Health Affairs’ Editor in Chief as work that moves the field forward and needs more attention Personal care aides (PCAs) play a vital role in ensuring that people with...