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Medicaid Is One of America’s Strongest Economic Engines. Why Don’t We Treat It That Way?

When most people think of Medicaid, they think of a public health insurance program for low-income families, older adults, children, and people with disabilities. But that’s only part of the story.

May 6, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Behind the Headline

How Medi-Cal Is Tackling Homelessness Through Innovative Housing Solutions

Learn about the innovative housing solutions at the heart of Medi-Cal’s efforts to help Californians find permanent places to live.

May 2, 2025

•Homelessness

Behind the Headline

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North

The cuts would disrupt the fragile health care system in a congressional district covering a 27,000-square-mile, sparsely populated region.

May 1, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Behind the Headline

From the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, Rural Californians Fear Medi-Cal Cuts

Worried Medi-Cal providers and enrollees say cuts will disrupt hospitals and hurt families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities.

April 29, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Feature Story

Rural Health Programs Empower High School Students for Local Careers

Expanded career technical education is creating job opportunities for students and alleviating the health worker shortage in rural California.

April 23, 2025

•Health Workforce

Feature Story

Wider Circle Getting Big Results from Its Strategy to Ease Loneliness

It may seem like a social club, but Wider Circle is actually a targeted intervention to improve members’ mental and physical health.

April 17, 2025

•Older Adults

Behind the Headline

Counties Embrace New Approach to Getting Therapist Trainees Licensed

Motivo Health increases access to clinical supervision, smoothing the pathway to California licensure for needed mental health providers.

April 11, 2025

•Behavioral Health

Feature Story

What Providers and Administrators Need from Behavioral Health Data Reforms

Understanding health care data is a powerful tool that reveals who is and isn’t being served, highlights what is working, and determines where dollars go.

April 8, 2025

•Behavioral Health

Feature Story

Kern, Tulare Counties Brace for Crisis Caused by Possible Medi-Cal Cuts

“It is gut-wrenching, infuriating, and deeply alarming” to consider what will happen if Medi-Cal cuts go through, said a Bakersfield doctor.

April 3, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Feature Story

In Riverside County, Potential Medi-Cal Cuts Distress Constituents, Health Leaders

Big reductions in Medi-Cal spending would devastate patients, providers, and the region’s economy, local health leaders say.

March 28, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Feature Story

Worried Orange County Families, Health Leaders Speak Out About Protecting Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal covers more than one million Orange County residents, including 44% of the county’s children and teens. Many are highly concerned and fearful about the potential impact of proposed federal cuts to Medicaid.

March 27, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Expert Perspective

AI Tools Promise Better Care but Challenge Safety-Net Providers

Artificial intelligence is swiftly reshaping the health care landscape, but the impressive array of helpful new tools is not equally accessible to everyone.

March 13, 2025

•Technology and Innovation

Inside CHCF

CHCF Names Krysten Curtis as New Vice President of Finance and Administration

CHCF announced the appointment of Krysten Curtis, CPA, as its new vice president of finance and administration. Curtis — who brings extensive experience in nonprofit finance, foundation operations, and strategic leadership — joins CHCF on March 10, 2025.

February 28, 2025

Expert Perspective

Housing Developers Leverage CalAIM for People Experiencing Homelessness

A conversation with Carolina Reid of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.

February 24, 2025

•Homelessness

Expert Perspective

Hazel Health: Connecting K-12 Students to Health Care

This start-up company provides virtual health care in school settings so students can stay healthy, learn, and reach their full potential.

February 19, 2025

•Technology and Innovation

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Medicaid Is One of America’s Strongest Economic Engines. Why Don’t We Treat It That Way?

How Medi-Cal Is Tackling Homelessness Through Innovative Housing Solutions

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North

From the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, Rural Californians Fear Medi-Cal Cuts

Rural Health Programs Empower High School Students for Local Careers

Wider Circle Getting Big Results from Its Strategy to Ease Loneliness

Counties Embrace New Approach to Getting Therapist Trainees Licensed

What Providers and Administrators Need from Behavioral Health Data Reforms

Kern, Tulare Counties Brace for Crisis Caused by Possible Medi-Cal Cuts

In Riverside County, Potential Medi-Cal Cuts Distress Constituents, Health Leaders

Worried Orange County Families, Health Leaders Speak Out About Protecting Medi-Cal

AI Tools Promise Better Care but Challenge Safety-Net Providers

CHCF Names Krysten Curtis as New Vice President of Finance and Administration

Housing Developers Leverage CalAIM for People Experiencing Homelessness

Hazel Health: Connecting K-12 Students to Health Care

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