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Sacramento Events

This collection showcases CHCF's regular series of events sponsored for Sacramento policy staff and others who are interested. The briefings are designed to provide information relevant to key health care issues and trends, and promote dialogue on possible solutions to challenges facing our state.
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October 5, 2023

Briefing — Black Health Equity

Health Equity
October 5, 2023
On October 5, 2023, CHCF held a briefing in Sacramento 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 5, 2021

Webinar — Organizations React to Medi-Cal Managed Care Procurement Draft RFP

Medi-Cal, Payment & Financing
August 5, 2021
CHCF’s webinar on August 5 from noon to 1:15 PM (PT) highlighted the feedback provided to DHCS from various organizations on the Medi-Cal managed care procurement draft RFP.
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Webinars — 2020 CHCF Regional Market Reports

For the fourth time since 2009, CHCF commissioned reports of seven health care markets in California. The markets in the 2020 release — Humboldt/Del Norte, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Joaquin Valley — reflect a diverse range of conditions in California. Each report was accompanied by a webinar featuring the report's author and local health care experts.
November 18, 2020

Webinar — Post-Election 2020: What’s Next for Health Policy?

Coverage Trends, Health Equity, Telehealth
November 18, 2020
This virtual briefing featured national health policy expert Billy Wynne, JD, who shared his post-election analysis on what we might expect in federal health policy in 2021.
July 10, 2020

Webinar — Public Hospitals and Health Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 10, 2020
This webinar featured three leaders from public hospitals and health systems discussing the challenges and opportunities for their organizations and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 26, 2020

Webinar — Challenges and Opportunities for Community Health Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

June 26, 2020
CHCF hosted a webinar on June 26 to hear three community health center leaders discuss challenges and opportunities for their organizations and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 23, 2020

Webinar — Challenges and Opportunities for Telehealth During the COVID-19 Crisis

Telehealth
April 23, 2020
A panel of caregivers, advocates, and providers discusses the rapid adoption of telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
February 18, 2020

Briefing: Behavioral Health Integration in Medi-Cal

Behavioral Health
February 18, 2020
Join this CHCF briefing to learn about efforts to integrate physical and behavioral health care in Medicaid programs across the country and within Medi-Cal in California.
October 24, 2019

Webinar — Medi-Cal Explained: Waivers and State Plan Amendments

Medi-Cal
October 24, 2019
As California is set to launch the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, brush up on the fundamentals of waivers and State Plan Amendments, including what's in California's current Section 1115 and Section 1915(b) waivers.
September 23, 2019

Briefing — An Introduction to California’s Public Mental Health System

Behavioral Health
September 23, 2019
At this CHCF briefing participants learned the fundamentals of the history and financing of the mental health system for people insured through Medi-Cal.
May 6, 2019

Briefing — Expanding the Role of Nurse Practitioners

Workforce
May 6, 2019
CHCF hosted a briefing — with experts from Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada — on what California can learn from other states that have expanded practice authority for nurse practitioners.
April 29, 2019

Briefing — Improving Quality in Medi-Cal Managed Care

April 29, 2019
Join CHCF for a briefing on how California can improve quality and access within Medi-Cal managed care.
February 25, 2019

Briefing — Medi-Cal Explained: An Overview of Program Basics

Medi-Cal
February 25, 2019
This briefing provided an overview of the basics of the Medi-Cal program, including eligibility and enrollment, organization, oversight, and financing.
December 6, 2018

Briefing — How Medi-Cal Is Modernizing Addiction Treatment

Behavioral Health
December 6, 2018
Expert speakers discussed the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System, the central tool in California's effort to expand and improve its system for treating people with addiction.
November 15, 2018

Briefing — The ABCs of APCDs

Health Care Costs
November 15, 2018
Speakers from across the US discussed what an all-payer claims database could mean for California, and how it might be implemented.
October 15, 2018

Health Affairs Forum in Sacramento — Improving Care for Californians

Payment & Financing, Health Care Costs
October 15, 2018
The September 2018 issue of Health Affairs was entitled “California: Leading The Way?” Health Affairs returned to Sacramento for this special event.
September 17, 2018

Health Affairs Issue Briefing — Health and Health Care in California

September 17, 2018
Health care researchers, economists, providers, and journalists gathered at the RAND Corporation’s Santa Monica headquarters to grapple with the billion-dollar question that Health Affairs posed in its September theme issue, “California: Leading the Way?”
November 27, 2017

Sacramento Briefing — California’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic

November 27, 2017
The opioid epidemic is the worst drug crisis in American history. This CHCF briefing in Sacramento will examine the role of California agencies in addressing the epidemic.
January 23, 2017

Sacramento Briefing — Community Paramedicine in California

Workforce
January 23, 2017
Community paramedicine (CP) is an innovative and evolving model of community-based health care designed to provide more effective and efficient services. Hear about California's CP pilot program.