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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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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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Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons By Robin Buller. Reprinted with permission from the California Health Care Foundation. The US Supreme Court outlawed the...
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Dr. Sunita Mutha on California’s Primary Care Shortage

About a third of Californians live in areas where there is a shortage of primary care clinicians. The shortage is particularly acute in rural areas such as the Inland Empire, Northern California and...

First Primary Care Scorecard: What It Reveals and What Comes Next

Access to primary medical care is closely associated with better health outcomes for patients, fewer hospital visits, and longer life spans. Yet in the United States, primary care spending for all...
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Transforming California’s Behavioral Health Workforce

Two new reports released; webinar offered ways organizations can lead on this critical issue California is facing a drastic shortfall of behavioral health care providers that has been exacerbated by...
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Rural Colorado Tries to Fill Health Worker Gaps with Apprenticeships

By Kate Ruder for Kaiser Health News. Reprinted with persmission. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — During her 12-hour overnight shift, Brianna Shelton helps residents at BeeHive Homes Assisted Living go to...
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Rural Seniors Reap Health Benefits from What UCSF First-Gen Nursing Program Sows

  By Andrew Schwartz with photography by Elisabeth Fall. Reprinted with permission from the UCSF School of Nursing. The UCSF School of Nursing is partnering with Hartnell College to prepare first-...
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California Demand for Primary Care Providers to Exceed Supply by 2030

UCSF Report Shows Potential Shortfall of 4,700 Clinicians as Soon as 2025 California is expected to face a statewide shortfall of primary care providers in the next 15 years, with acute shortages in...