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California: Leading the Way?

Xenia Shih Bion
Maternal Health, Providers, Insurance Coverage
Health care researchers, economists, providers, and journalists gathered on September 17 to grapple with the billion-dollar question that Health Affairs posed in its September theme issue, “California: Leading the Way?”
Press Release

CHCF Health Care Leadership Program Announces New Class of Fellows (2018-2020)

Workforce
Thirty-two clinical leaders have been selected to participate in the California Health Care Foundation's Health Care Leadership Program to expand their management skills and meet the challenges facing our state's health care system.
Press Release

Not Listening to Mothers

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health, Medi-Cal
A new major survey finds a significant disconnect between the maternity care women want and the care they end up getting. The results of Listening to Mothers in California, released today, reveal what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State.
Publication

California’s Nurse Practitioners

Joanne Spetz
Providers, Workforce
California is one of a handful of states that restricts nurse practitioners' ability to work without physician oversight. This paper examines how these restrictions impact care.
Publication

A Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California

University of California, San Francisco, The Robert Graham Center
Workforce
This comprehensive overview describes landscape of graduate medical education funding in California, including funding sources, amounts, and their distribution across the state.
Publication

Medi-Cal Moves Addiction Treatment into the Mainstream

Molly Brassil, Carol Backstrom, Erynne Jones
Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal, Opioid Safety
A fundamental shift is underway in California to expand, improve, and reorganize Medi-Cal’s system for treating people with substance use disorders. This report summarizes the experiences of the first counties to implement this new approach.
CHCF Blog

The State of Emergency

Eric Antebi
Providers
CHCF recently published the latest edition in its wide-ranging Almanac series, "California Emergency Departments: Use Grows as Coverage Expands." Kristof Stremikis, director of CHCF's Market Analysis and Insight team, talks about the important findings.
Publication

California Emergency Departments: Use Grows as Coverage Expands

Renee Y. Hsia
Between 2006 and 2016, the number of visits to California's emergency departments increased by 44%. This Almanac report explores the data behind those visits.
CHCF Blog

Overcoming Human Barriers to Tech Innovation in the Safety Net

Andrea Hsu
Investing in Innovation
It isn’t financial and staff capacity that determines a safety-net organization’s ability to embrace technology-driven change. It’s executive leadership and organizational culture.
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