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    Remembering Ian Morrison, Thought Leader and Former CHCF Board Chair

    For four decades, he advised government, industry, and nonprofits about forecasting and planning with an emphasis on health care.

    •Feature Story
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    Remembering CHCF’s Vincent James, Innovator in Design, Music, and Photography

    The man who built the foundation’s website and developed its digital communications efforts for 26 years was a self-taught and highly accomplished photographer and musician.

    •Inside CHCF
  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
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    Street Medicine in California: ‘Go to the People’

    California’s persistent homelessness crisis has fueled rapid growth in community street medicine programs dedicated to bringing health care and social services to unsheltered people.

    •Expert Perspective
  • Joanne Spetz of UCSF health policy institute standing outside, at the waterfront.
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    COVID-19 Is Reshaping California’s Health Workforce

    A conversation with Joanne Spetz, director of UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

    •Expert Perspective
  • Illustration of middle aged man sitting alone
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    The Pandemic of Loneliness

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Loneliness is strongly associated with behavioral health problems and physical maladies — and with COVID-19.

    •Feature Story
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    Sacramento Briefing Explores Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health in Medi-Cal

    Hundreds of providers, administrators, government officials, consumers, and advocates learned how Medicaid programs can integrate behavioral health services and physical health care.

    •Expert Perspective
  • Michelle Schneidermann
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    Putting Care in Context

    Michelle Schneidermann, MD, the new CHCF director of High-Value Care, shares her goals for the program.

    •Expert Perspective
  • Dennis Flannery, EMT
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    Finding the Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: A community paramedicine program is helping Stanislaus County reduce ER overcrowding by transporting people in mental health crises to faster psychiatric emergency care.

    •Behind the Headline
  • Sign in front of Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, Albany Campus
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    Highly Anticipated Trial to Determine If Consolidation Is Driving Up Costs

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: A landmark antitrust case that is playing out in San Francisco Superior Court will determine whether Sutter Health has exploited its market dominance in Northern California to squash competition and drive up health care prices.

    •Behind the Headline
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    Independent Nurse Practitioners Bridge Big Gaps in Rural Care

    California is one of 22 states that do not permit nurse practitioners to practice and prescribe without ongoing physician oversight. Journalist Heather Stringer traveled to Colorado to see how nurse practitioners are being deployed in two rural communities.

    •Feature Story
  • Carlina Hansen having a conversation.
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    How Do Low-Income Californians Experience Health Care?

    Senior program officer Carlina Hansen discusses a CHCF project focused on how real-world experiences form the attitudes and expectations of people with low incomes about California’s health care system.

    •Expert Perspective
  • David Carlisle in front of portrait of Charles Drew, university founder
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    Doctor Builds a Diverse Health Care Workforce for California

    As president of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, David Carlisle, MD, PhD, is making what may be his greatest impact in a stellar career in academia, clinical care, and state health policymaking. In…

    •Expert Perspective
  • Katy Butler standing by fence with bird sculpture.
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    On the Art of Dying Well

    A conversation with California author Katy Butler, whose new book spotlights the perverse financial incentives that promote overtreatment and overdiagnosis of patients while failing to reward relationships, thoughtfulness, and harm reduction.

    •Feature Story