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COVID-19 Is Reshaping California’s Health Workforce

February 1, 2022

By Avram Goldstein Evidence is mounting that American health care workers are quitting in large numbers. The health care sector has lost nearly half a million workers (PDF) since February 2020, and...

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A Retrospective of 2021 Progress at Healthforce Center

January 26, 2022

By 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...

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Well-Being Strategies for the Health Care Workforce

October 30, 2021

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...

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

October 1, 2021

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...

Seven Lessons on Cultivating Connections and Staff Engagement

September 20, 2021

By 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...

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

September 20, 2021

By 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 Effort to Train Health Workers Reimagines Health Care

September 20, 2021

Reprinted with permission by Monterey County Now. By Sara Rubin Orlando Elizondo has spent a lot of time thinking about how health care is delivered – not in doctor’s offices or emergency rooms, but...

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

August 17, 2021

“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...

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You Can’t Just Be Anti-Racist at Work

May 20, 2021

“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...

How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Nursing Workforce

May 6, 2021

“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...