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  • San Francisco as seen from the East Bay withthe Bay Bridge in the foreground.
    Report

    San Francisco Bay Area — Regional Market Report 2025

    The San Francisco Bay Area is one of seven markets included in the 2025 Regional Markets Study, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time.


  • Event Insight

    California’s Vast Rural North Deserves a Real Seat at the Health Policy Table

    California’s Rural North faces the state’s steepest health care challenges. CHCF is elevating local voices to shape real policy solutions.


  • Mount Shasta, California, USA - June 17th 2025: Main street of Mount Shasta town leading towards Mount Shasta Volcano, at dusk in summer
    Report

    Shasta and Lassen Counties — Regional Market Report 2025

    Shasta and Lassen Counties are one of seven markets included in the 2025 Regional Market Report, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time. 


  • Report

    San Joaquin Valley — Regional Market Report 2025

    San Joaquin Valley is one of seven markets included in the 2025 Regional Market Report, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time. 


  • Eastern Plumas Health Care CEO Doug McCoy sitting at a desk
    Behind the Headlines

    From the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, Rural Californians Fear Medi-Cal Cuts

    Worried Medi-Cal providers and enrollees say cuts will disrupt hospitals and hurt families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities.


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    Knowledge Center

    California Health Care Almanac

    Objective information on health care costs, coverage, quality, and delivery supports effective decisionmaking. The Almanac provides data and analysis on California’s health care system.


  • View of California Central Coast from the hills of San Simion
    Report

    CalAIM Experiences: Central Coast Implementers

    Learn how implementation of CalAIM is unfolding on California’s Central Coast in this survey of people who work at managed care plans, behavioral health organizations, community-based organizations, and social services organizations.


  • View of Los Angeles, California from the hills above the Griffity Observatory
    Data Insight

    CalAIM Experiences: Southern California Implementers

    Learn how implementation of CalAIM is unfolding in Southern California in this survey of people who work at managed care plans, behavioral health organizations, community-based organizations, and social services organizations.


  • Mt. Shasta, Northern California
    Report

    CalAIM Experiences: Northern California Implementers

    Learn how implementation of CalAIM is unfolding in Northern California in this survey of people who work at managed care plans, behavioral health organizations, community-based organizations, and social services organizations.


  • Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Area, California
    Report

    CalAIM Experiences: Bay Area Implementers

    Learn how implementation of CalAIM is unfolding in the Bay Area in this survey of people who work at managed care plans, behavioral health organizations, community-based organizations, and social services organizations.


  • Data Insight

    Improving Behavioral Health Through Data-Driven Collaboration: A Santa Cruz County Case Study

    Data exchange in Santa Cruz County’s health care settings provides a guide for how to implement health information exchange successfully. This case study examines the county’s implementation of Behavioral Health and Quality Improvement Program and how it has led to…


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    Regional Profiles


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    Quick Read

    Medi-Cal Explained: 2024 Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans by County

    In 2024, many California counties will experience major changes around which Medi-Cal managed care plans operate there. This fact sheet organizes these changes alphabetically by county and by managed care plan for easy reference.


  • Woman wearing mask that reads "Stop Evictions, Save Lives"
    Behind the Headlines

    Housing Instability Exacts Yet Another Kind of Pandemic Health Toll

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: For renters with low incomes facing the threat of eviction, assistance has been slow in coming.


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    Sacramento Events

    This collection showcases CHCF’s regular series of events sponsored for Sacramento policy staff and others who are interested. The briefings are designed to provide information relevant to key health care issues and trends, and promote dialogue on possible solutions to…