California Health Care Foundation

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.

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.

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.

Indigenous communities in California and throughout the United States face striking health disparities. Learn three ways that health and social services organizations can address these inequities.

This set of quality measures focuses on providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice.

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

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease, and includes data by race/ethnicity, payer, and county.

This paper examines the successes, challenges, and opportunities in providing person-centered care to people experiencing homelessness. It offers seven recommendations California policymakers can take now to implement Medi-Cal housing supports and achieve person-centered care for people experiencing homelessness.

National health care spending totaled $4.3 trillion in 2021, or $12,914 per person. The Almanac report provides a detailed look at national health care spending.

This publication offers key findings from the Listening to Black Californians study on the experiences of Black Californians with mental health conditions, who are one of the groups most likely to report being treated poorly by a health care provider because of their race or ethnicity.

This practical toolkit can help health care providers and community-based organizations in California maximize available funding to support existing street medicine programs, or develop new ones.

This short guide is designed for health care providers who are serving people leaving incarceration and returning to their communities. It includes correctional system basics and an overview of the reentry process.

In a series of focus groups supported by CHCF, people implementing CalAIM programs shared the ups and downs of the rollout so far.

This report focuses on the process to make a key notice easier to understand by Medi-Cal members. It also includes recommendations for modifying or creating future member-facing communications.