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 Thacher Consulting to evaluate the Managing to Leading (M2L) program that is administered by Healthforce Center at UCSF. This is an abridged summary of the evaluation’s impact and participant success findings.

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. (photo credit: Noah Berger)

Applications due Friday, March 15, 2024 for the next M2L cohort!

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 their first seminar together in December 2023 (photo credit: Melissa Lucas).

Succession planning is an often-neglected undertaking. It can be challenging to prioritize this essential task when teams are consumed with day-to-day operations. Some leaders struggle to face the possibility of a transition and delay thinking about the inevitable. Similarly, others may not want to dig into what a leadership transition might mean for the organization, or to them personally. Change is hard. Ambiguity and uncertainty can be scary. Yet, developing a succession plan is vital to an organization’s resiliency and continued ability to provide services and advance its mission.

Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to announce the sixth cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program. Funded by Cedars-Sinai and administered by Healthforce Center, this program develops emerging leaders to foster the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively lead change and improve health care delivery.

Applications for the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading program close Friday, March 17

Imagine spending a year with a small cohort of staff from other community clinics achieving personal development goals, learning how to improve health care delivery, receiving coaching on communication and leadership skills, and connecting with a network of peers in Los Angeles – all free of cost.

By Dr. Michelle Schneidermann, director of CHCF’s People-Centered Care Team

Thirty-two fellows have been selected for the next round of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, which helps clinicians develop and disseminate techniques to improve the operations of California’s safety-net institutions and the state’s overall health care system.

Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to welcome five interns this summer! Working with interns is just one way in which Healthforce Center advances health equity by building pipelines of diverse health clinicians, researchers, and leaders. Internships such as these provides an opportunity for people from under-represented communities to learn about and contribute to health care as they explore the next steps in their careers.

By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center

If 2020 was the year of a collective reckoning on racial injustice across the nation, then 2021 was the year of laser-like focus on how to redouble our efforts to advance equity and become more anti-racist. As Healthforce Center at UCSF will celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2022, we are taking extra time to review where we've been and where we are going.