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Post-election Q&A: What Now?

While the future of health care in this country is unclear and may be for some time, Healthforce Center at UCSF’s health policy experts can tell you what they know now, in addition to the best ways...

Leadership Alum Wins Humanitarian Award

Vincent Nguyen, DO, CMD, who graduated from our California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program in September, has won the 2016 Senior Care Hero Humanitarian Award. Nguyen serves as program...

Shift Focus From Fear to Opportunity This Election

by Healthforce Center at UCSF Director Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP As we get ready to elect a new president, discussions around job creation should focus on one of the fastest growing sectors of our...

Thirty-two Clinicians Selected for CHCF Health Care Leadership Program

Thirty-two clinicians throughout the state of California have been chosen to participate in the California Health Care Foundation Health Care Leadership Program, which equips participants with the...

Expanding Training to Properly Staff Hospital-based Palliative Care Programs – A Clear Need, Unmet

By Healthforce Center Associate Director of Research Joanne Spetz and Center to Advance Palliative Care Director Diane E. Meier Background Palliative care provides patients with serious illness with...

How Leadership Training Gave One Woman the Confidence to Step Up

When opportunity knocks, sometimes you need a little encouragement to open the door. Lucinda Bazile, who graduated from Healthforce Center’s Clinic Leadership Institute in 2009, credits the coaching...

The Future of Community Health Workers

by Rebecca Hargreaves, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Healthforce Center at UCSF Last month I had the pleasure of spending the day with more than 60 people from across various health care and...

Q&A: The Hidden Health Workforce

They diagnose diseases, take care of older adults in their homes, help people control chronic illnesses and so much more. Yet, allied health workers, who make up more than 60 percent of the health...

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...