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Resource Brokering: Efforts to Assist Patients With Housing, Transportation, and Economic Needs in Primary Care Settings
11-01-21
Clinicians and policy makers are exploring the role of primary care in improving patients’ social conditions, yet little research examines strategies used in clinical settings to assist patients with social needs. This study used interviews focused on how organizations develop and implement case...
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Investing in a 21st Century Health Workforce: A Call for Accountability
09-15-21
The nation requires a workforce adequately sized and educated in the specialty areas needed to address the health needs of all people that practices in the places, settings, and specialties where they are needed most; that works efficiently and effectively; and practices in systems that protects...
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Optimal Staffing Models to Care for Frail Older Adults in Primary Care And Geriatrics Practices in the U.S.
09-01-21
Different staffing configurations in primary and geriatric care practices could have implications for how best to deliver services that are essential for a growing population of older adults. Using data from a 2018 survey of physicians (MDs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) working in primary and...
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Advancing Health Worker Well-Being: Trends and Opportunities
09-01-21
Health systems are uniquely positioned to advance health equity in communities by ensuring that workers are well, resilient, and equipped to deliver high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how work environments in health systems affects the well-being of workers, whose capacity to...
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Patient Perspectives on the Quality of Professional Interpretation: Results from LASI Study
08-01-21
The use of professional interpretation is associated with improvements in overall healthcare of patients with limited English proficiency. For these patients, it is important to understand whether quality of professional interpretation in-person is preserved using remote interpretation modalities (...
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CIN Connections, Summer 2021: Caring and Sharing: Supporting the Primary Care Workforce
06-21-21
The California Improvement Network is a community of health care professionals committed to identifying and spreading better ideas for care delivery. The summer 2021 issue of CIN Connections contains strategies and reflections from health care leaders as they wrestle with increased levels of...
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California Healthcare Almanac: Health Care Workforce
03-04-21
California’s health care industry employed more than 1.7 million people in 2019. Among these workers, nearly 50% were employed in ambulatory settings, 32% in hospitals, and 18% in nursing or residential care facilities. An aging population and population growth will likely contribute to increased...
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Translating Evidence into Practice: ACOs’ Use of Care Plans for Patients with Complex Health Needs
01-01-21
Care plans are an evidence-based strategy, encouraged by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and are used to manage the care of patients with complex health needs that have been shown to lead to lower hospital costs and improved patient outcomes. Providers participating in payment...
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Conceptualizing Performance Measurement for Social Care Interventions: An Issue Brief for State Medicaid Agencies
01-01-21
Growing recognition that socioeconomic adversity impacts health outcomes has led the healthcare sector to support initiatives that address social determinants of health (SDOH). There is an opportunity to leverage performance measures to further incentivize these interventions and track adoption....
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Do Penalty-Based Pay-for-Performance Programs Improve Surgical Care More Effectively than Other Payment Strategies? A Systematic Review
12-01-20
The aim of this systematic review is to assess if penalty-based pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are more effective in improving quality and cost outcomes compared to two other payment strategies (i.e., rewards and a combination of rewards and penalties) for surgical care in the United States. A...
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COVID-19 and the Health Workforce
10-31-20
The health workforce has been greatly affected by COVID-19. In this commentary, we describe the articles included in this health workforce research supplement and how the issues raised by the authors relate to the COVID-19 pandemic and rapidly changing health care environment.
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Veterinarian Workforce and Education in California
07-31-20
This report presents an overview of California’s veterinarian workforce. The majority of veterinarians care for companion animals (i.e., pets). Others work in settings such as agriculture, research, and public health. As a health sciences discipline with expertise across multiple species and...
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Optometry Workforce and Education in California
07-31-20
Optometrists are health care professionals who have earned a Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree. Common tasks performed by optometrists include conducting eye examinations, diagnosing vision problems (such as nearsightedness or farsightedness), addressing binocular vision issues, diagnosing and...
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Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce
04-08-20
Current efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic aim to slow viral spread and increase testing, protect health care workers from infection, and obtain ventilators and other equipment to prepare for a surge of critically ill patients. But additional actions are needed to rapidly increase health...
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Factors Associated with Physical Injury of Police Involvement During Incidents of Workplace Violence in Hospitals: Findings from the First Year of California’s New Standard
03-12-20
Violence against healthcare workers is a pervasive safety issue that impacts patient care and workforce stability. Workplace violence in healthcare settings is known to be a costly and often underreported problem. In California, hospitals are required to report incidents of violence towards workers...
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Sex Differences in Salaries of Department Chairs at Public Medical Schools
03-02-20
Women in academic medicine are paid less than their male peers. This salary difference is often attributed to differences in rank and promotion. The goal of this study was to investigate whether sex pay differences exist at the highest ranks of academic medicine: among clinical department chairs....
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Frequency of Violence Toward Health Care Workers in United States Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Literature
01-01-20
The purpose of this systematic review is to determine the frequency of violent or aggressive behaviour towards healthcare workers in inpatient psychiatric settings in the United States. To achieve this aim, five databases were searched to find English-language quantitative studies reporting...
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Leveraging the State Budget to Implement California Future Health Workforce Commission Recommendations
10-01-19
This report describes provisions of California’s state budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 that either directly fund the California Future Health Workforce Commission's recommendations or fund other initiatives that are consistent with these recommendations. The Commission’s recommendations, released...
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Envisioning an Ideal Health Workforce Data System for California
07-23-19
Seven million Californians, the majority of them Latino, African American, and Native American, live in areas experiencing shortfalls of primary care, dental care, or mental health care providers. Without accurate, robust and timely health workforce data, the state will be unable to adequately...
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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Workforce for Seriously Ill Older Adults in the Community
05-10-19
In May 2018, 40 leaders and scholars from universities, delivery organizations, professional associations, advocacy groups, government agencies, and private insurance companies convened in Napa, California, for a Workforce Summit organized by the University of California, San Francisco, and...
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Introduction to Special Issue: The Workforce for Seriously Ill Older Adults in the Community
05-10-19
In May 2018, 40 leaders and scholars from universities, delivery organizations, professional associations, advocacy groups, government agencies, and private insurance companies convened in Napa, California, for a Workforce Summit organized by the University of California, San Francisco, and...
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Proceedings: Workforce Summit on Ensuring a Workforce to Care for People with Serious Illness in the Community
02-03-19
In May, 2018, 40 national leaders and experts were convened to make workforce development recommendations that address the needs of persons living with serious illness in community settings. Over the course of two and a half days, attendees offered sixteen broad recommendations that included...
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Community-Based Palliative Care Leader Perspectives on Staffing, Recruitment, and Training
04-01-18
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 integrated and community health systems, home health and hospice organizations, and the Veterans...
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California Peer Providers in Transitions of Care
03-16-18
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 individuals with mental health or substance use disorders in California. This research focused on services...
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Remote Monitoring Technologies in Long-Term Care: Implications for Care Team Organization and Training
01-05-17
There is a widely accepted observation that the current health care delivery model in the U.S was not developed to manage care needs associated with extended life expectancy and growing rates of chronic conditions. Remote monitoring programs aim to anticipate/identify illness exacerbations and...
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The Dental-Medical Divide
12-05-16
The importance of oral health for overall well-being cannot be overstated. Yet the US dental delivery system struggles to address effectively the two most common oral diseases (caries and periodontal disease), which are among the most prevalent of all chronic diseases and are largely preventable....
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Survey of Health Care Employers in Arizona: Maricopa County Community Health Centers, 2015
07-26-16
A survey of Arizona health care employers was conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the spring of 2016. The survey captured responses from 59 percent of the community health centers (CHCs) in Maricopa County. This is the first survey of Maricopa County CHC employers and...
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Arizona Health Workforce Demand in a Rapidly Changing Market: Perspective of State Leaders
06-22-16
This report presents findings from interviews with health care leaders across Arizona regarding the trends they are observing and their expectations for future health workforce needs. Sixteen health care leaders were interviewed to assess their plans in the face of health care delivery changes and...
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Reducing Health Care Disparities for Minority Women in the Era of the Affordable Care Act: Opportunities within Primary Care
05-31-16
Despite improvements in overall health of the American population, disparities persist, particularly for minority women. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers the potential to reduce disparities through expanded insurance coverage, greater access to high-quality care, and bolstered prevention...
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Wage Growth for the Health Care Workforce: Projecting the Affordable Care Act Impact
05-04-16
How will the Affordable Care Act impact demand for health care workers and their wages? The answer could mean good news for physicians and registered nurses, but bad news for health consumers: Increased wages will drive up insurance premiums and reduce the affordability of health insurance....