The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
CHCF publishes reports, articles, issue briefs, explainers, data snapshots, infographics, fact sheets, and other resources to help make meaningful change in California’s health care system.
The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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This fact sheet shows how lay counselors can bridge the mental health workforce gap by providing evidence-based support comparable to that offered by licensed therapists.
Read three strategies to help ensure that California’s health ecosystem has a robust and diverse health workforce to meet community needs and create sustainable models of care delivery that advance health equity.
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.
We cannot achieve health equity for Black patients without expanding the Black physician workforce, and the nation’s medical institutions are not achieving that goal.
CHCF commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct a national study of health care pathway programs to examine the persistent barriers and challenges facing aspiring doctors and nurses from systemically and structurally excluded groups. The study draws from interviews and focus…
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.
This brief identifies policy strategies to increase the number of health professionals with language concordance — those that speak the same language as their patients. This is especially important in California where 44% of households speak a language other than…
This report reviews the evidence about the impact of key health workforce policy interventions in California, including pipeline programs, scholarship programs, loan repayment programs, funding of graduate-level health profession training programs, and residency funding.
This report synthesizes data about California’s behavioral health workforce. California needs to make substantial investments to meet future demand for behavioral health professionals.