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  • Man from rural area waits at remote area clinic for care.
    Behind the Headline

    No Shortage of Patients — Only Providers

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: California has no shortage of patients. Unfortunately, the state doesn’t have enough health care professionals to care for them all — a shortage that experts predict will only worsen with time.

    •Health Workforce
  • Red push pins and string create a network pattern on a bright blue background.
    Tool

    Overcoming Data-Sharing Challenges in the Opioid Epidemic

    Federal confidentiality rules, such as the “Part 2” rules, can be a stumbling block for primary care practices seeking to integrate substance use disorder treatment. This paper summarizes the rules and outlines steps that practices can take to coordinate care…

    •Primary Care
  • Cooks making bread at DV8, a restaurant that hires only people recovering from substance use disorders.
    Behind the Headline

    Today’s Special: The Healing Power of Food

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The healing power of food is making its way from grandma’s kitchen into America’s restaurants and a health plan near you. Plus, the Supreme Court nomination.

    •Facts and Data
  • Group of medical personnel viewing information together on a laptop computer.
    Project

    Smart Care California

    This public-private partnership is working to promote safe and affordable health care in California.

    •Primary Care
  • Reprepresentative Henry Waxman served as the U.S. Representative for California's 33rd congressional district from 1975 until 2015.
    Expert Perspective

    Forty Years of Winning Friends and Influencing People

    Of more than 12,000 Americans who have served in Congress, few have had careers as productive as Henry Waxman’s. CHCF talked to the former Los Angeles-area congressman about US health policy.

    •Health Insurance Coverage
  • Behind the Headline

    Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System

    In Medi-Cal, treatment for patients with substance use disorder has long been run out of a separate program. Now California is implementing a broad move to modernize this system of care.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Comparison of community based palliative care sufficiency in California counties, 2014 vs. 2017
    Expert Perspective

    Palliative Care: The Road More Traveled

    The availability of palliative care has grown substantially in California over the past four years, thanks in part to SB 1004, which helped stimulate the development of specialty palliative care services in places that used to have none.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Chapa de client, Melissa, with her father.
    Feature Story

    Melissa’s Story: Telehealth Is Knowing That Care Is Just a Call Away

    Melissa Phelps needed to see a specialist about her worsening rheumatoid arthritis. The specialist she needed was far away, but telehealth consultations closed that gap.

    •Technology and Innovation
  • Patient Zig Fayant talks with Senior Physician Rita Ogbo during a consultation at the Herbert Humph. (Photo by Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
    Behind the Headline

    Health Care Journalists and Facts

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care policy continues to fuel political controversy, and journalists are playing an important role in providing data and evidence to counteract misinformation.

    •Facts and Data
  • Dr. Parag Agnihotri with patient is Richard Maringer at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego.
    Feature Story

    Doctors Are Changing San Diego’s Opioid Prescribing Practices

    A large group of San Diego physicians is making progress against the opioid epidemic by educating prescribers and patients about ways to change longstanding practices.

    •Behavioral Health
  • Mother holding newborn baby
    Behind the Headline

    Maternal Mortality: A Human Rights Issue

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In the US, black women die during pregnancy and childbirth at a rate more than triple that of white women. Maternal mortality isn’t just a women’s rights issue — it’s a human rights…

    •Maternal Health
  • Expert Perspective

    CIN Connections, Summer 2018 — Beyond the Exam Room

    The Summer 2018 edition of CIN Connections offers actionable information on addressing the social needs of patients in their lives outside the exam room.

    •Health Equity
  • Crowd walking across street at striped crosswalk.
    Report

    The Unfinished Work of Achieving Universal Coverage

    Close is not good enough for the three million Californians who remain without coverage and access to care. For them, we must keep up the fight to cross the finish line.

    •Health Insurance Coverage
  • Report

    California’s Physician Supply and Distribution: Headed for a Drought?

    According to data from physician surveys, California’s medical doctors are unevenly distributed across the state, and new doctors aren’t being trained in great enough numbers to address this imbalance.

    •Health Workforce
  • MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border
    Behind the Headline

    Immigrant Family Separation Crisis: The Damage Is Already Done

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: As our country grapples with the implications of the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant children from their parents, we must consider the potential damage being done.

    •Health Equity