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The Importance of Why

By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center In 2017, health care organizations face great uncertainty about funding for health care and the ability to sustain coverage and access for...
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Making it Through the Wilderness

By Maile Richardson “Wandering around in the wilderness.” That’s how Teresa Simms, regional director of operations at North County Health Services, described her early experiences as a health care...
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Leadership Program Spurs Transformation in Physician

Healthforce Center’s leadership development programs help leaders navigate change — and improve patient outcomes — through a process of individual transformation. Stanford University Professor Alan...
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Healthcare Leaders and Activism: A Conversation with Perri Morgan of Duke

Perri Morgan, PhD, PA-C, is professor and the director of research in the Physician Assistant Division in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. She is a...
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Why Is Nursing Leadership and Management Important?

As the health care system continues to undergo rapid change, the nature of nurses’ roles are changing as well, according to Healthforce Center faculty research. As the largest licensed health...
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Lasting Lessons from a Community Clinic Initiative

Leticia Lozano, LVN, the Health Center Manager at the Achievable Foundation, completed Cedars-Sinai Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading Program in 2016. This intensive year-long...

6 Steps to Reduce Burnout

By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center As a physician, professor of medicine, and head of Healthforce Center at UCSF, I spend most of the year thinking about the health and...