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Telehealth’s Evolution in California: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Programs & Resources
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Bridging the Care Gap: Addressing California’s Health Care Workforce Needs

Programs & Resources
California is not producing enough health care workers to meet the needs of a growing, aging, and rapidly diversifying population. Building a representative workforce can improve the health of Californians and the quality of care they receive.
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Improving Care for Older Adults with Complex Needs

Older Adults with Complex Needs, Health Equity
By 2030, it is projected that one in four Californians will be an older adult. This growth — and the needs of an increasingly diverse aging population — demands that Californians take action to ensure older people with low incomes get the support they need to live well.
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Behavioral Health Transformation

Programs & Resources
People with serious mental illness or substance use disorder must navigate multiple confusing systems to get the care they need. Too often, available services don’t align with what people want. CHCF is working with policymakers, providers, advocates, and consumers to improve the system of care so people can receive high-quality, equitable care.
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Homelessness & Health Care

Programs & Resources
Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. Explore resources from CHCF that help health care, homeless services providers, government, and other systems work together so people are housed and healthy. CHCF will add to this resource center as new publications and tools become available. Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. CHCF envisions a future where different systems work together effectively so people are housed and healthy.
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Listening to Black Californians

Programs & Resources
As part of its commitment to ending health inequities, CHCF partnered with EVITARUS, a Black-owned public opinion research firm in Los Angeles, to conduct a qualitative and quantitative study that listens to Black Californians via in-depth interviews, focus groups, and a statewide survey.
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Advancing Latino/x Health Equity 

Health Equity
The California Health Care Foundation is focused on advancing policies and practices that will improve timely access to high-quality primary, specialty, and mental health care for Latino/x Californians and eliminate avoidable differences in health outcomes.
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Primary Care Matters

Programs & Resources
Health care systems with strong levels of primary care investment have better and more equitable health outcomes, lower care costs, and better care quality. We can build a healthier future for all Californians by focusing resources back to patients and their relationship with primary care providers.
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CalAIM in Focus

Programs & Resources
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.
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CHCF Health Equity Fellows

Health Equity
The mission of the CHCF Health Equity Fellows program is to identify, develop, and support emerging leaders who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) and have the capacity to become local and regional catalysts for health equity across California.
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California’s Palliative Care Evolution: Celebrating Progress and Shaping the Future

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
This resource from Transforming Care Partners describes the key drivers of California's progress in palliative care and remaining opportunities to build on and accelerate this growth to meet future needs.
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Essential Skills and Supports for All Clinicians Treating Serious Illness

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
All people with serious illness should have access to palliative care, beginning early in their illness and delivered in conjunction with disease-oriented treatments. To successfully address these needs, all clinicians who treat people with serious illness should have the knowledge and skills to provide first-line palliative care, including basic management of pain and symptoms and discussions about prognosis and goals of care.
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Advancing Black Health Equity

Health Equity, Workforce
It is incumbent on California, working at all levels and across systems, to break down entrenched barriers to quality health care for Black Californians. CHCF is working with partners to support crosscutting health systems work and to improve birth care, experiences, and outcomes for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people in California.
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California Health Care Almanac

Programs & Resources
Objective information on health care costs, coverage, quality, and delivery supports effective decisionmaking. The Almanac provides data and analysis on California's health care system.
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Advancing California’s Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce in Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal
This Resource Center offers information and tools designed to support managed care plans in integrating community health workers and promotores into their programs.
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Essential Elements of Medi-Cal Palliative Care Services

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
This set of tips and tools for Medi-Cal managed care plans and palliative care providers reflects the expertise and approaches of plan-provider partners around the state, and can be used to strengthen these organizations’ collaborative approach to caring for people with serious illnesses.
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State Health Policy

Programs & Resources
CHCF's Sacramento office provides policymakers with a valuable local resource and serves as a link to experts and resources at the foundation's Oakland headquarters.
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Community Health Workers & Promotores in the Future of Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal
A project to enhance the capacity of Medi-Cal managed care plans and their partners to deploy community health worker and promotor programs that advance health equity.
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California Improvement Network

Programs & Resources
The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements. The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements.
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CHCF Health Care Leadership Program

Programs & Resources
This two-year, part-time fellowship offers clinically trained health care professionals the experience and skills necessary for effective vision and leadership in the health care system.
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CHCF Innovation Fund

Programs & Resources
We partner with emerging companies to bring innovations and technology to California’s health care providers, payers, and patients so that all Californians have access to the care they need.
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Medi-Cal Academy for Homeless Service Providers

Homelessness & Health Care
This 10-part training series was designed for housing and homeless service agencies interested in contracting with managed care plans to provide housing-related Community Supports. Each of the 10 webinars is freely available. Materials are also available for download.
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Palliative Care in Medi-Cal (SB 1004) Resource Center

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
Senate Bill 1004 (SB 1004) is the California law that requires Medi-Cal managed care plans to provide access to palliative care. Explore CHCF’s collection of tools and resources aimed at helping organizations implement, sustain, and improve programs providing palliative care to Medi-Cal enrollees under SB 1004.