Nurse practitioners are a vital part of California’s health care workforce. Today they play a particularly important role providing care to underserved Californians, especially Latino communities.

This guide was developed for palliative care specialists and advocates for palliative care who primarily work within another service line (palliative care champions). It includes resources that support educational and quality improvement projects to integrate palliative care into routine care across a range of service lines and patient populations.

US health spending reached $3.6 trillion in 2018. National health spending grew 4.6% in 2018, a slightly higher rate than the 4.2% growth in 2017. See the data in this quick reference guide.

For over 20 years, the California Health Care Foundation has funded nonprofit journalism to help strengthen the media’s capacity to cover health policy in California. The goal of this investment: to ensure that audiences have access to timely, relevant information about the most pressing issues related to the health care and policy landscape.

Comprehensive news coverage of health issues in California is essential for health officials and decisionmakers at the community, county, and state levels, as well as residents seeking information on matters that impact their lives. The dramatic changes in the media ecosystem over the last decade have created challenges for news organizations. CHCF commissioned this report to assess the state’s current health reporting landscape.