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    Behind the Headlines

    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…


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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 Headlines

    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.


  • Inside CHCF

    My Birth Matters: A C-Section Campaign Is Born

    The My Birth Matters campaign, which includes animated videos and related materials, is part of a broader statewide effort to lower rates of low-risk, first-birth c-sections in California hospitals.


  • Anthony Bourdain standing in a field.
    Behind the Headlines

    Bourdain on Addiction: There Is No Them — There Is Only Us

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The late chef, author, and television personality Anthony Bourdain, who recovered from heroin addiction in the 1980s, used his global platform to educate the public about the opioid crisis.


  • Paper copy of the Affordable Care Act with a gavel laying on top of it.
    Report

    What to Know About the Justice Department’s Latest Whack at the ACA

    The Affordable Care Act wars have reignited, thanks to a surprising assault on the law’s popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions.


  • Mom kissing newborn baby
    Project

    My Birth Matters: C-Section Consumer Education Campaign

    This campaign is designed to educate expectant mothers about cesarean delivery and encourage conversations between them, their doctor, and care team.


  • Project

    Teaching Providers How to Help Chronic Pain Patients Manage Their Condition

    Chronic pain patients are among those who face harm from opioid overprescribing, but they have little access to nondrug alternatives. Los Angeles County trained providers in strategies and skills they can teach their patients to reduce pain, stress, and fatigue.


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    Tool

    CIN Resource Page: Making the Case to Address Social Needs

    This resource page from the California Improvement Network consists of a short list of relevant and timely resources to help health care organizations address social needs that impact health.


  • Steep cliffs at the ocean, with a large chasm between them
    Report

    Palliative Care in California: Narrowing the Gap

    Palliative care services have grown substantially in California. Interactive maps and an issue brief shed light on progress that’s been made and what gaps remain.


  • A pile of one hundred dollar bills.
    Data Insight

    National Health Spending Passes $10,000 Per Person, and We Should Be Concerned

    Annual spending on health care in the US has crossed the $10,000 per-person threshold, reminding us to reflect on health care’s unprecedented claim on our resources — and why we should be concerned about it.


  • Cramped rural hospital in Happy Valley California
    Behind the Headlines

    A Long Road to Care for Rural Californians

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care journalists delve into the complicated challenge of helping rural hospitals survive in a hostile financial environment.


  • Care-giver holding the hand of patient in bed, receiving palliatve care
    Report

    What’s Different About Caring for Medi-Cal Members with Serious Illness?

    For people with low incomes or who are covered by Medi-Cal, palliative care programs must attend to a host of issues that patients with economic resources don’t face.