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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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Key Publications

The Good Practice: Treating Underserved Dental Patients While Staying Afloat

This report outlines tools and techniques for helping California dental practices contend with the financial limitations of treating low-income and uninsured patients. An issue brief also examines the particular difficulties facing federally qualified health centers.

Telemedicine in California: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

The Future of California's SCHIP Program

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

Key Projects

Program Focus: Enrollment Modernization

Featured in the video clip above, this project has developed an easy-to-use, interactive Web-based application and is implementing the new process across the state.

CHCF and SFDPH Healthy San Francisco Innovations Series

Learning Sessions to Support County Coverage Initiatives for the Uninsured

Strengthening California's Safety-Net Clinics

Step by Step: Local Coverage Expansion Initiative

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

Guide to Health Programs (Guia de Programas de Salud)

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

Rafael Gomez, M.P.P.
Program Officer

Glenda Pacha
Program Assistant

Media Contact

Steven Birenbaum, Communications Officer
510.587.3157