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Rising Reliance on Contract CNAs in Nursing Homes: Unveiling the Impact on Care Quality and Workforce Stability

By Lina Stepick, Director of Research, PHI. Republished with permission from PHI. PHI in partnership with the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care released a new study showing...
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A Policy Perspective: How NPs Expand Healthcare Access to Rural Areas

Interview with Joanne Spetz by Matt Zbrog. Reprinted with permission from Sechel Ventures. Approximately 46 million Americans live in rural areas, nearly 15% of the nation’s population. Those rural...
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How Hospitals and Health Systems Are Battling Burnout in Health Care

By Brianna Navarre. Reprinted with permission from US News and World Report. Pictured clockwise from top left: moderator Michael Morella, managing editor, U.S. News & World Report; Heather Farley...
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Announcing Our New Initiative to Strengthen California’s Health Workforce

By Director Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, and Associate Director of Research Elizabeth Mertz, PhD   “We envision a collective effort that prioritizes systems and policy changes to advance the diversity and...
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California Needs Thousands of Nurses, but Leaders Can’t Agree on How to Fill Jobs

By Kristen Hwang. Reprinted with permission from CalMatters. Leer en espanol. Ashley Hooks always planned to retire at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, where she has been a nurse for 12 years. But...
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New Payment Streams Boost the Community Health Worker/Promotores Field

  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...
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Rural America Faces Major Shortage of Personal Care Aides

­­ 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...
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How to Increase Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Now

By Nabiha Siddiqui based on work by Sunita Mutha, Janet Coffman, Susan Chapman, and Rebecca Hargreaves, Healthforce Center at UCSF Photo: From the left: Maryam Alehashem, postdoctoral scholar,...
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Webinar: Enabling Dental Therapy Practice to Improve Access to Oral Health Services

For two decades, the US Surgeon General has highlighted large gaps in access to oral care and the “silent epidemic” of dental disease. More than 30% of the US population has difficulty accessing care...

COVID-19 Is Reshaping California’s Health Workforce

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...