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Resource Type: Fact Sheet

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    What Is a Clubhouse for People with Serious Mental Illness?

    This fact sheet explains how Clubhouses are an evidence-based model of community care designed to support the recovery of people living with serious mental illness.

    June 01, 2026

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: People Who Use a Language Other Than English

    Learn about the health care and social services needs directly from people with complex needs who speak a language other than English.

    October 27, 2025

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Rural Californians

    People living in rural Northern California face unique health and social needs. Hear from residents, including Native Americans, about their challenges and what they say could help.

    October 27, 2025

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Challenges Living Independently

    October 14, 2025

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Transitioning from Incarceration

    People leaving jail or prison often experience multiple health and social needs all at once. This fact sheet draws on interviews with people leaving incarceration to better understand their needs.

    October 13, 2025

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Behavioral Health

    This fact sheet draws from a major research project and examines the experiences of Californians with behavioral health conditions. Participants shared the need for integrated care with fewer eligibility requirements and the importance of care managers with lived experience, especially.

    September 22, 2025

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    Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Homelessness

    This fact sheet draws from a major research project and examines the experiences of Californians experiencing homelessness. They found that access to empathic care managers is crucial for navigating complex systems and that safe, stable housing helps achieve lasting recovery.

    September 22, 2025

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    Three Charts That Help Explain the Financial Health of California’s Hospitals During and After the Pandemic.

    This dashboard, updated quarterly as new data become available, provides estimates of costs and revenue for California hospitals from 2019 to the most recent quarter available.

    June 03, 2025

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    Strengthening California’s Health Data Exchange: The Need for Enduring Leadership

    California’s Data Exchange Framework builds connected health systems that empower providers with complete patient information, improving care quality while reducing costs. A strong governance board is essential to ensure this vital resource benefits all Californians, especially communities traditionally facing barriers…

    April 28, 2025

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    How Vital Are Medi-Cal Payments to Hospitals in CA Congressional Districts 22, 40 & 41?

    These fact sheets show how much Medi-Cal payments contribute to net patient revenue at hospitals in three parts of the state, as one way to explore how financially reliant hospitals are on the program.

    April 08, 2025

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    Understanding California’s Community-Connected Workforce

    These resources examine three new Medi-Cal benefits: community health workers/promotores/representatives, doulas, and peer support specialists. Although these community-connected workforces share common approaches, each has distinct qualifications, supervision requirements, and covered services under Medi-Cal.

    March 19, 2025

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    Do Medi-Cal Enrollees Work? — Policy at a Glance

    Medi-Cal covers many Californians, including workers who can’t get affordable coverage at their jobs, people with disabilities and seniors who need help paying for what Medicare doesn’t cover, including nursing home care. In total, Medi-Cal covers 14.9 million people, more…

    January 24, 2025

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    Listening to Black Women with Medi-Cal

    This publication offers key findings from the Listening to Black Californians study on the experiences of Black women with Medi-Cal coverage, who are more likely to report negative experiences and discrimination in the health care system than Black Californians overall.

    May 08, 2023

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    How Does SB 1375’s Proposed Transition-to-Practice Period Compare to Other States?

    This fact sheet compares a proposed-transition to-practice (TTP) period for nurse practitioners in California to TTP periods in other states.

    July 31, 2022

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    Fact Sheet: Nurse Practitioners and California’s Latino/x Community

    Nurse practitioners are a vital part of California’s health care workforce. Today they play a particularly important role providing care to underserved Californians, especially Latino/x communities.

    April 22, 2022

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