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Shaping the Research Priorities for Health Workforce Policy: An Update and Invitation

June 13, 2024
By Dr. Sunita Mutha, Director, Healthforce Center at UCSF   Guided by the values of social justice and health equity, Healthforce Center at UCSF set out to advance California-focused health...
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Introducing the 2024 Cohort of the Managing to Leading Program

June 6, 2024
  Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to announce the seventh cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program. Funded by Cedars-Sinai and administered by...
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Closing the Gender Pay Gap for Female Nurses Promotes Equity and Supports the Health Care Workforce

May 29, 2024
By Ulrike Muench, RN, PhD, FAAN, Faculty, Healthforce Center at UCSF   Patterns of pay disparities based on gender continue to be a high-priority concern for the health care workforce. Recent...
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Four Reasons Why Organizations Need to Invest in Developing Leaders

May 21, 2024
By Marie Hubbard, Senior Program Manager and Sunita Mutha, Director Pictured: The 14th cohort of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program in 2016 (photo credit: Noah Berger)   In the last decade,...
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A Confusing Patchwork of Laws Govern Nurses’ Ability to Practice

May 1, 2024
States’ Scope of Practice Laws Need to Be Standardized By Molly Candon, Joanne Spetz, and Amber Rose. Reprinted with permission.    What nurses can do and say depends on the state in which they...
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Rising Reliance on Contract CNAs in Nursing Homes: Unveiling the Impact on Care Quality and Workforce Stability

March 15, 2024
By Lina Stepick, Director of Research, PHI. Republished with permission from PHI. PHI in partnership with the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care released a new study showing...
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$1-billion Gift Will Boost Workforce Diversity by Making Tuition Free

March 9, 2024
  A $1-billion donation by former professor Ruth Gottesman to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx will permit the school to waive student tuition — $63,000 per student per year — in...
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Leadership Training Accrues Myriad Benefits to Employer Organizations: M2L Evaluation

February 27, 2024
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...
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America’s First Paramedics Were Black. Their Achievements Were Overlooked for Decades

February 26, 2024
By Arthur L. Kellermann, ER doctor, public health researcher and patient advocate. Reprinted with permission from the author. Pictured above: Freedom House Ambulance Service Group Photo, 1974 (photo...
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A Policy Perspective: How NPs Expand Healthcare Access to Rural Areas

February 13, 2024
Interview with Joanne Spetz by Matt Zbrog. Reprinted with permission from Sechel Ventures. Approximately 46 million Americans live in rural areas, nearly 15% of the nation’s population. Those rural...