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Leading Beyond the Crisis: What Leaders Should Know

Leading Beyond the Crisis: What Leaders Should Know

June 24, 2020
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP For nearly three decades Healthforce Center has been training health care leaders at all levels - from emerging to executive levels. Since the beginning of the COVID-19...
The Equitable Future We Need

The Equitable Future We Need

June 4, 2020
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP While I usually use this space to talk about leadership and increasing capacity in health care, now is not the time for that. Now is the time to talk about the despair and...
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 28, 2020
By Joanne Spetz, PhD Three of every four pharmaceutical overdose deaths in 2010 involved opioids, according to the CDC. This sobering statistic focused attention on the rapid acceleration and...
Community Clinic Case Study: Los Angeles Christian Health Centers Health Home Program

Community Clinic Case Study: Los Angeles Christian Health Centers Health Home Program

May 27, 2020
How One Los Angeles Area Clinic Addresses Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Implementing new programs can pose operational challenges for seasoned staff and leaders at any organization. Even with a...
Reflections on Addressing Social Needs During a Pandemic

Reflections on Addressing Social Needs During a Pandemic

May 6, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in every possible way in a short amount of time. While the spread of COVID-19 and the economic effects of shelter in place have impacted everyone to...
A Road Map for CIN in 2020-21

A Road Map for CIN in 2020-21

April 8, 2020
The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action network that aims to advance the Quadruple Aim by identifying and spreading better ideas for care delivery. The network is fueled by...
This webinar shares content from the first seminar focused on what it means – and takes – to integrate behavioral health in primary care settings.

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

December 4, 2019
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...
Health Care’s Problems Too Big to Handle Alone

Health Care’s Problems Too Big to Handle Alone

November 20, 2019
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP The challenges facing health care are too big for individuals or individual organizations to handle alone. Solving these problems requires collaboration among payors, plans...
Increasing Access to HIV Prevention Medication

Increasing Access to HIV Prevention Medication

November 19, 2019
by Jackie Miller Special acknowledgement to Maria Lopez for her contributions to this article. Joe Smith, a gay man previously living in Boston, moved to San Francisco two months ago and was in...
Cedars-Sinai Cohort 1

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

October 7, 2019
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:...