Nearly three dozen clinical leaders were chosen for the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, which is designed to expand leadership skills and meet the challenges facing our state's health care system.

This two-year fellowship offers clinically trained health care professionals the experiences, competencies, and skills necessary for effective vision and leadership of the health care system.

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.

The nation's current oral health workforce fails to meet the needs of many segments of the population, particularly those in rural and other underserved areas. Read the findings from a February 2009 IOM workshop on this issue.

In operation since 2005, this project is designed to identify pressing health workforce and health professions' issues in California. The project's areas of interest include language access, community clinic staffing, and oral health workforce shortages.

This issue brief provides both an overview of workforce innovation initiatives in California and elsewhere and an in-depth look at the California Health Workforce Pilot Project, which offers the opportunity to safely assess new approaches to care delivery.

This report presents the first comprehensive study of the Medical Board of California survey data on practicing physicians in the state. It finds fewer M.D.s than previously estimated, and that specialists outnumber primary care physicians by a 2-to-1 ratio.

To improve access and reduce wait times for specialty services, many specialty practices have incorporated physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) into their health care. This report highlights six models that have been financially sustainable.

This report provides an overview of today's laboratory medicine sector and the economic, regulatory, workplace, technological, and other factors that are shaping it.

This issue brief examines California's establishment of minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. It finds that while hospitals increased their use of nurses with the highest skills, the regulation has not resulted in a clear improvement in the quality of patient care.

This CHCF report, a successor to 2002's 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.

These publications highlight models for reviewing and modifying state medical scope-of-practice laws, as well as the feasibility of addressing the shortage of health workers in California by drawing upon former military personnel.

This issue brief surveys scope of practice laws for nurse practitioners and examines how they might be altered to help alleviate physician shortages and rising health care costs in California.

This report examines the growth and prevalence of hospitalists at California hospitals, looks at the current and future roles of hospitalists, and describes the organizational characteristics of hospitalist groups in California.