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Leadership Training Accrues Myriad Benefits to Employer Organizations: M2L Evaluation

By Jessica Thacher, MPH and Caron Lee, MS Pictured: M2L cohort 6 at a program seminar in May 2023 (photo credit: Noah Berger). In 2023 Cedars-Sinai’s Community Benefit Giving Office commissioned Jess...
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America’s First Paramedics Were Black. Their Achievements Were Overlooked for Decades

By Arthur L. Kellermann, ER doctor, public health researcher and patient advocate. Reprinted with permission from the author. Pictured above: Freedom House Ambulance Service Group Photo, 1974 (photo...
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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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Emerging Leaders Give Me Hope for Health Equity in California

By Marie Hubbard, Senior Program Manager, Healthforce Center at UCSF Pictured above: Marie Hubbard (seated in maroon cardigan) joins a group photo of M2L cohort 5 at their graduation in May 2023. (...
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Healthforce Center's Journey to Advance Equity in Our Workplace

By Marie Hubbard, Senior Program Manager and Dr. Sunita Mutha, Director Photo: Healthforce Center staff volunteering at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank in October 2023, from left: Kyoko Peterson,...
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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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Strategies for Recruiting and Nurturing a Thriving Health Workforce

By the California Improvement Network Team at Healthforce Center Recruiting, nurturing, and retaining staff is an increasingly greater challenge for providers of community health and social services...
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Empowering 32 More Future Health Care Leaders

By Dr. Michelle Schneidermann, director of the California Health Care Foundation’s People-Centered Care Team Pictured above: The 32 members of cohort 23 of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program at...
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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...