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Trust Is a Clinical Outcome. Here’s What It Takes for Providers to Earn It.
A Southern California physician who grew up in Mexico explains how cultural and linguistic connections build patient trust and improve health outcomes.
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Listening to the Frontlines: Kaiser Permanente’s Lessons on Integrating Doulas for Medi-Cal
Kaiser Permanente’s experience with California’s doula benefit reveals the importance of listening to the people closest to the work.
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Scaling and Sustaining Community Health Work: An Evaluation of the Amplifying Impact Initiative
CHCF’s Amplifying Impact Initiative helped 28 California organizations expand community health worker services under Medi-Cal. Evaluation findings show trusted relationships, regional collaboratives, and workforce investment drive scale. But financial sustainability remains the central challenge.
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The 2026-27 Budget Is Final. Here Are 5 Health Policy Questions Facing California’s Next Governor
Lawmakers deferred tough choices on Medi-Cal, coverage, workforce, and AI to whoever wins November’s race and takes office in January.
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Payer Strategies for Primary Care Investment in California
California has set an ambitious goal to increase primary care spending to 15% of health care expenditures by 2034. This issue brief outlines six practical strategies health plans can use to strengthen primary care, improve health outcomes, reduce disparities, and…
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Los Angeles — Regional Market Report 2026
Los Angeles is one of seven markets included in the 2026 Regional Markets Study, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time.
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Community Health Worker/ Promotores/Representative Training Program Best Practices
This publication offers voluntary best practices for training community health workers, promotores, and representatives, helping programs strengthen quality while preserving community roots. Developed through broad stakeholder input, it promotes accessible, culturally responsive training that supports a trusted workforce statewide.
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Immigrants in California’s Health Workforce: How Federal Policy Changes Threaten Access to Care
This explainer examines how recent federal immigration policy changes could disrupt workforce recruitment, deepen provider shortages, and threaten access to culturally and linguistically concordant care across California.
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Building and Sustaining Community Health Worker Programs in California — A Resource Center
This resource center features tools to help California managed care plans, providers, and community-based organizations build and sustain community health worker services funded through Medi-Cal.
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Inland Empire — Regional Market Report 2026
The Inland Empire is one of seven markets included in the 2026 Regional Markets Study, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time.
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San Francisco Bay Area — Regional Market Report 2026
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of seven markets included in the 2026 Regional Markets Study, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time.
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