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  • 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 Headlines

    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 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…

    •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 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.

    •Health Equity
  • 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.

    •Behavioral Health
  • 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.

    •Health Care Costs/Affordability
  • 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.

    •Maternal Health
  • 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.

    •Primary Care
  • Books and Magazines in a pile
    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.

    •Health Workforce