According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five adults experience mental illness in a given year; yet our health care system does not have enough behavioral health workers to meet...
Author(s): Susan Chapman, Lisel Blash, & Joanne Spetz
Community paramedicine (CP), also known as mobile integrated health, is an innovative model of care that is being implemented throughout the United States. The California Emergency Medical Services...
Author(s): Janet M. Coffman, Cynthia Wides, Matthew Niedzwiecki and Igor Geyn
The California Improvement Network’s latest report, CIN Connections: Healing the Healers, features actionable information to tackle provider burnout and promote well-being at health care...
This study of California nurse practitioners (NPs) and certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) was conducted in early 2017. In November 2016, there were 20,337 NPs living in California, of whom 569 also were...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Lisel Blash, Matthew Jura and Lela Chu
As the registered nurse (RN) baby boomers retire, there is a need for more highly skilled and experienced nurses in California, according to a new survey published by Healthforce Center at UCSF and...
Author(s): Lela Chu, Joanne Spetz and Timothy Bates
This qualitative descriptive study assesses perspectives of US community-based palliative care program leaders on staffing, recruitment, and training. Leaders from academic medical centers, large...
Author(s): Nancy Dudley, Susan Chapman and Joanne Spetz
While the demand for registered nurses (RNs) in California’s San Joaquin Valley is projected to grow by more than 35 percent by 2030, the region’s total number of RNs will decline. This will result ...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Janet Coffman and Timothy Bates
This study explored care models and policies that enhance the utilization of peer providers in California and to identify and describe best practices in peer support roles and practices for...
Author(s): Susan A. Chapman, Lisel Blash, Joanne Spetz
This report analyzes and projects future needs related to California’s behavioral health workforce. This workforce is critical to meeting California’s health care needs. One in six adults suffers...
Author(s): Janet Coffman, Timothy Bates, Igor Geyn and Joanne Spetz
Highlights
Value-based payment is leading to enhanced care coordination staffing.
Sites are task shifting low-complexity care coordination to unlicensed staff.
Important care coordination education...
Author(s): Clese E. Erikson, Patricia Pittman, Alicia LaFrance, Susan A. Chapman
