Health Care for All Californians

The California Health Care Foundation helps Californians with low incomes get the health care they need.

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Health Equity

Health Equity

All Californians should have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential for health. CHCF is working with a wide range of partners to remove structural barriers to care and build a just and equitable health care system that is designed to redress, not perpetuate, the inequities that too many of our fellow Californians face. Learn More
Universal Coverage

Universal Coverage

California's commitment to expand Medi-Cal eligibility to all income-eligible adults offers an historic opportunity to achieve equity in health coverage over the next five years. However, much work remains to ensure that those who have coverage stay covered and those are are eligible for coverage are enrolled. Learn More
Workforce

Workforce

California faces major shortages of health workers and isn’t producing enough new workers to meet its population’s future needs. Meanwhile, California's health workforce does not match the diversity of the state. These workforce supply problems have a major impact on health access, quality, and equity. Learn More
CalAIM in Focus

CalAIM in Focus

CalAIM is a multiyear reform led by the California Department of Health Care Services to improve the health outcomes and the overall well-being of Medi-Cal enrollees. Explore CHCF’s collection of tools and resources aimed at helping organizations understand and implement CalAIM. Learn More

What's Trending

Explore the most popular publications, blogs, resources, and more from CHCF.

CHCF Blog

Sowing the Seeds of a Diverse Health Care Workforce

September 20, 2023
Sequoia Hall
Health Equity, Workforce
A CHCF Health Equity Fellow traces her path from a community of farmworkers in East Salinas.
CHCF Blog

What Californians Need to Know About the 2024 Mental Health Ballot Measure

September 21, 2023
Kristen Hwang
Behavioral Health, Homelessness & Health Care
California collects a special tax on high incomes to fund mental health services. Governor Gavin Newsom wants to change how the money is spent so a share of it can be used to fund housing for homeless people with mental illnesses.
Publication

Early Lessons from CalAIM Initiatives to Address Behavioral Health Needs

September 2023
Hadley Fitzgerald, Logan Kelly
Behavioral Health
Learn about concrete opportunities to improve delivery of Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorder. This issue brief draws from interviews with behavioral health stakeholders across five counties.
Publication

Telehealth Use and Experiences Among California Adults

September 2023
Lacey Hartman
Telehealth
This brief explores how telehealth use varies across subpopulations of adults in the state and reports how people rate their telehealth experience compared to in-person care.
Publication

Medi-Cal Explained: New Medi-Cal Services at a Glance (2020–2023)

August 2023
Rachel Aberbach Metz
This fact sheet outlines new non-specialty mental health services as well as services introduced as part of the CalAIM initiative. It also covers benefits that establish a new billable provider type, such as community health workers.
Publication

Improving Behavioral Health Through Data-Driven Collaboration: A Santa Cruz County Case Study

September 2023
Jennifer Bresnick, Samuel Taylor
Behavioral Health
Data exchange in Santa Cruz County’s health care settings provides a guide for how to implement health information exchange successfully. This case study examines the county’s implementation of Behavioral Health and Quality Improvement Program and how it has led to health system reform.
October 5, 2023

Briefing — Black Health Equity

Health Equity
October 5, 2023
Join CHCF for a Sacramento briefing on October 5, 2023, from noon to 1:30 PM, focused on the health care challenges so many Black Californians face despite their pursuit of good health, as well as strategies for advancing Black health equity.
August 30, 2023

Webinar — Communicating about the 2024 Medi-Cal Expansion to Newly Eligible Immigrants

Medi-Cal, Expanding Health Coverage
August 30, 2023
This webinar presents key findings from focus group research that sought to identify the messages, messengers, and information that would most effectively motivate newly eligible undocumented Californians to sign up for Medi-Cal in 2024.
Publication

Medi-Cal Explained: 2024 Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans by County

June 2023
Ralph Silber
Medi-Cal
In 2024, many California counties will experience major changes around which Medi-Cal managed care plans operate there. This fact sheet organizes these changes alphabetically by county and by managed care plan for easy reference.
Publication

Quality of Care: Behavioral Health — 2023 Edition

August 2023
Jen Joynt
This set of quality measures focuses on behavioral health, including mental health and substance use.

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Listening to Black Californians - 2022

With Black Californians' life expectancy 6 years below the state average, the health care system is clearly failing them. Black Californians are doing all they can. The health care system needs to do the same.

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