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How One Woman Learned to Lean In

At the age of 38, Bettina Lewis was promoted to chief operations officer at Los Angeles Christian Health Center, which serves more than 9,000 patients per year.  At first, Bettina lacked the ...

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...

5 Ways to Reduce Costs and Achieve Better Outcomes

by Kevin Rodondi, PharmD How can clinicians manage costs without losing sight of patient outcomes? One common sense method involves talking to patients, understanding their challenges and involving...

One Physician's Leadership Journey

A California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) article featuring Geoffrey Leung, MD, EdM, describes the transformative experience he's had with our CHCF Health Care Leadership Program. An ambulatory...

Healthforce faculty receive new investigator, mentorship awards

The leading forum on health services research, the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, takes place June 26-28 in Boston, and Healthforce Center faculty will take center stage with awards,...

Addiction treatment could have saved Prince and others

By Joanne Spetz, PhD, Associate Director of Research, Healthforce Center at UCSF The death of Prince last month, at age 57, surprised the world. The outpouring of sadness at the loss of an iconic and...

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

by Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Healthforce Center at UCSF Director Last week, I saw a patient, let’s call him Al. Al has two kids and a wife, and recently lost his job. Though he was able to find a new...

Growing Demand, but Shrinking Supply of Long-term Care Workers

Health care has been, and will continue to be, the fastest growing employment sector, but many of those job openings may be difficult to fill, according to Bianca Frogner, associate professor in the...

Safety Net Workers Embark on Leadership Journeys

This March, the ninth cohort of Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders launched in Tiburon, California. Over the next 18 months, participants will learn, share and grow into leaders who will...

Five Ways to Make the US the Healthiest Nation in a Generation

by Healthforce Center at UCSF Director Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP The US spends more per person on health care than any other high-income nation, but has lower life expectancies and higher rates of...