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What Are Home and Community-Based Services?
This fact sheet series breaks down the essential components of Medi-Cal Home and Community-Based Services, which are critical for helping older adults and people with disabilities live independently and thrive.
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The Crucial Role of Counties in the Health of Californians
Learn about the role of California counties in administering health care, behavioral health, and public health services
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Investing in Community Health: How Local Health Plans Strengthen California’s Health Workforce
This explainer examines local health plans in the safety net and their investments in workforce development, while exploring how federal funding cuts may impact future community health initiatives.
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Sobering Centers Explained, 2025 Updates
The landscape of sobering care in California has undergone substantial transformation in recent years. This report captures key lessons from the sobering centers that now serve 16 California counties.
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Who Receives Medi-Cal Home and Community-Based Services?
Learn about the demographics of Medi-Cal enrollees receiving HCBS across five programs. The analysis reveals that HCBS recipients are diverse across age, race, ethnicity, and primary language.
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Federal Funds Expand and Support California’s Health Workforce: An Explainer
In 2022, California received $2.1 billion in federal funds to strengthen its health workforce. This explainer outlines funding sources, program types, and supported professions across medicine, nursing, and behavioral health.
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Medi-Cal Waivers and State Plan Amendments
Two fact sheets and one short slide deck provide an overview of Medicaid waivers and State Plan Amendments, and how they are used in California.
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Medi-Cal Home and Community-Based Services: Understanding Overlaps and Gaps
In four short explainers learn about the Assisted Living Waiver, the Home and Community Based Alternatives Waiver, Multipurpose Senior Services Program Waiver, California Community Transitions and each program’s overlap and gaps with CalAIM Community Supports.
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Emerging Medi-Cal Community Care Hubs
Learn how Medi-Cal Community Care Hubs can serve as centralized administrative entities that coordinate services among Medi-Cal providers, managed care plans, and patients.
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Language Barriers and Health Equity: The Challenges Faced by Californians with Limited English Proficiency
This brief uses data from the 2021 and 2022 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to provide a comprehensive overview of the adults with limited English proficiency in California.
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Private Equity in Health Care: Prevalence, Impact and Policy Options for California and the U.S.
This brief describes national and California-specific trends in private equity acquisitions of health care service providers, such as outpatient clinics, hospitals and nursing homes.
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CalAIM FAQ for Assisted Living Community Operators
This fact sheet provides general information and resources for operators interested in learning more about CalAIM and how its Community Supports program may support the populations they serve.
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Recommendations to Improve Implementation of ECM & Community Supports for People Experiencing Homelessness
The goal of the recommendations is to strengthen communication and collaboration across the health and homeless systems of care to ensure people experiencing homelessness are better able to access and use CalAIM programs.
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Medi-Cal Explained: New Medi-Cal Services at a Glance (2020–2023)
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.
