More than 400,000 health care jobs have been added in the state over the last decade. Five Almanac guides explore selected health professions, providing data on wages, education, and workplaces.

Nursing, the largest profession in California, faces expanding responsibilities for care and an aging workforce. This Almanac snapshot examines nurse supply, education, and demographics.

Public health care programs handle the unmet medical needs of low-income, uninsured individuals and families. This Almanac report offers data on patients served, programs offered, and sources of funding.

Community clinics, which serve California's neediest people, are growing in revenue, patients served, and staff. This CHCF Almanac report provides a checkup on clinics' financial health.

This report looks at California's physicians in terms of supply relative to population, the types of patients served, physician demographics, education and training, compensation, and other factors.

California's 512 acute care hospitals cared for 3 million inpatients and 42 million outpatients in 2007. This report examines these hospitals in terms of their bed supply and capacity, geographic distribution, ownership type, utilization, and financial health.

Revealing facts, figures, and trends on subjects ranging from bed supply to payment sources, this report provides an overview of issues shaping long term care in California and the nation.

This database and various reports offer information about California's medical groups and IPAs, including enrollment levels, organizational type, business lines, numbers of affiliated physicians, clinic locations, hospital affiliations, key contact information, and much more.