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Innovations, Failures, and Leadership Lessons During the COVID-19 Pandemic

September 21, 2020

On September 18, Dr. Mitch Katz, President and CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals, shared with California Improvement Network (CIN) partners at the fall CIN partner meeting about his experience leading the...

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...

Amanda Clarke, MPH, right, speaks with Giovanna Giuliani, left, of the California Safety Net Institute

After Some Hurdles, California Whole Person Care Pilots Hit Stride

November 5, 2018

The California Improvement Network (CIN), which is a project of the California Health Care Foundation and administered by Healthforce Center at UCSF, is a community of health care professionals...

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Exec Leadership Program to have New Cohort

December 20, 2017

This month, the country’s largest pharmacy, CVS, bought one of the largest insurance companies, Aetna, as part of a $69 billion deal. Though mergers and acquisitions in the commercial sector far...

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

November 20, 2017

Thirty-one mid-level clinicians, administrators and other non-clinical staff who work in clinics in Los Angeles have been selected to participate in Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative...

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The Importance of Why

June 14, 2017

by Healthforce Center at UCSF Director Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP In 2017, health care organizations face great uncertainty about funding for health care and the ability to sustain coverage and access...

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Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege?

May 23, 2017

A beauty queen's response to a question about health care has highlighted a debate percolating throughout American society: Is health care a right or privilege? Healthforce Center Associate Director...

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Severe Shortage of Home Health Workers Could Only Get Worse (Washington Post)

May 1, 2017

Severe shortages of home health aides and nursing assistants could be detrimental to thousands of patients, according to a recent report by Kaiser Health News, California Healthline and the...

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Families Wary of Enrolling Undocumented Kids in Medi-Cal (KPCC)

March 22, 2017

Although California law allows children under 19 to access Medi-Cal regardless of their immigration status, many parents are pulling them from the program due to fear of deportation, according to a...