Participants and Authors

These resources were developed based on the experiences and takeaways from two California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) initiatives. In 2018–19, 10 California public health care systems representing a range of sizes and geographic locations identified project leaders from palliative care and a partner service line who collaborated on the needs assessment process described in these resources. In an implementation phase from 2020–21, teams from 9 California public health care systems planned, piloted, and assessed the impact of a generalist palliative care intervention. The implementation resources and project profiles included in these resources were created based on their experiences.

The development of these resources would not have been possible without the insight, collaboration, and openness of the public health care system project participants and program faculty. Thank you to all those who made this work possible during both phases of the project.

Participating Public Health Care Systems

• Alameda Health System
• Contra Costa Health Services
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• LAC+USC Medical Center
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
• Riverside University Healthy System
• San Mateo Medical Center
• Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
• UC Davis Medical Center
• UC Irvine Medical Center
• UC San Diego Medical Center
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center

Program Faculty and Resource Center Authors

Wendy G. Anderson, MD, MS, is a palliative care physician and director of palliative care expansion at Alameda Health System. Anderson was the project director for both CHCF projects that were the basis for this resource center.

Kathleen Kerr, BA, is a health care consultant whose work is focused on promoting the development of sustainable, high-quality palliative care programs, with particular emphasis on payer-provider partnerships and supporting programs that serve Medicaid enrollees.

Anne Kinderman, MD, is a clinical professor at UCSF, provides clinical care as an attending physician in the UCSF Division of Palliative Medicine, and was the founding director of the Supportive & Palliative Care Service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Monique Parrish, DrPH, MPH, LCSW, is founder and director of LifeCourse Strategies, a health care consulting firm providing project management and community-based research to organizations addressing the palliative care needs of underserved and vulnerable older adults.

Michael Rabow, MD, is a professor of clinical medicine and urology at UCSF, medical director of palliative care and the Symptom Management Service at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and director of the MERI Center of Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mount Zion.

Melissa Schoen, MBA, MPH, is founder and director of Schoen Consulting, which specializes in improving the scope and quality of health care operations and services for the underserved.