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  • Innovations for the Underserved

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    Goal:
    To reduce barriers to efficient, affordable health care services for the underserved.

    Objectives:

    • Encourage, test, and promote lower-cost models of care.
    • Improve the availability of specialty and dental care for low-income, uninsured, non-English speaking, and rural Californians.
    • Promote policy and operational improvements to increase enrollment and retention in publicly sponsored insurance programs.
    • Increase the operational efficiency of safety-net institutions.

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    Featured Publications

    Equipped for Efficiency: Improving Nursing Care Through Technology

    This report, a successor to the 2002 CHCF publication The Nursing Shortage: Can Technology Help?, examines how technologies designed to improve hospital efficiency, patient safety, and quality of care are affecting the work environment for nurses.

    Delivering Care Anytime, Anywhere: Telehealth Alters the Medical Ecosystem

    Scope of Practice Laws in Health Care: Rethinking the Role of Nurse Practitioners

    Modernizing Enrollment in California's Health Programs for Pregnant Women and Children: A Blueprint for the Future

    Health Care in the Express Lane: Retail Clinics Go Mainstream

    Denti-Cal Facts and Figures: A Look at California's Medicaid Dental Program

    Featured Projects

    California Center for Connected Health

    CHCF has created this new entity to lead and coordinate telehealth adoption throughout California. Headquartered in Sacramento, its goal is to make California a national model for telehealth integration into the health care system. A video demonstrates how clinics are using telemedicine.

    Program Focus: Enrollment Modernization

    Strengthening California's Safety-Net Clinics

    Strengthening Community Dental Practices in California

    Health Care Interpreter Network

    One-e-App: One-Stop Access to Health Care

    Staff

    Margaret A. Laws, M.P.P.
    Director

    Len Finocchio, Dr.P.H.
    Senior Program Officer

    David D. O'Neill, J.D., M.P.H.
    Senior Program Officer

    Melissa Schoen, M.B.A., M.P.H.
    Senior Program Officer

    Glenda Pacha
    Program Assistant

    Media Contact

    Steven Birenbaum, Communications Officer
    510.587.3157