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    Communicating to Medi-Cal Members About the Unwinding

    Focus group research tested the effectiveness of the state’s outreach materials for Medi-Cal members about the unwinding.


  • Event Insight

    Health Equity Moonshot Lifts Off

    StartUp Health is bringing Black, Latino/x, and female entrepreneurs together with health tech investors.


  • Woman experiencing homelessness sits under a tarp with her belongings.
    Report

    The California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness

    The study demonstrated that most people become homeless primarily because the cost of housing has become unsustainable. Many study participants said that experiencing homelessness worsened their health, including their mental health.


  • Case Study

    Advancing Equity in Medi-Cal’s Home and Community-Based Services

    With support from CHCF, Justice in Aging is producing a series of issue briefs focused on helping state agencies, policymakers, and other stakeholders in efforts to support equitable HCBS rather than institutional care where possible and desirable.


  • Doctor examines young patients throat.
    Expert Perspective

    How Primary Care Investments Can Advance Equity

    A new report summarizes decades of research that demonstrates the many ways a reimagined approach to primary care can help reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.


  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
    Project

    Video Series: Street Medicine Teams Deliver Care

    These “video site visits” may be particularly helpful to clinicians or organizations interested in launching or expanding street medicine programs. Viewers will learn about different models, engagement strategies, and street-based health care interventions. The series captures the common philosophy guiding…


  • Street medicine team assists a woman experiencing homelessness.
    Project

    Street Medicine in California: Delivering Care to People Who Are Unhoused

    People experiencing homelessness often have serious physical and behavioral health needs but little access to traditional health care facilities and providers. CHCF supports projects that expand proven models of street medicine programs that are responsive and equitably focused on people’s…


  • Unidentified patient with therapist Alvin Fong at the Chinese Service Center clinic in Chinatown
    Feature Story

    LA Health Center Tackles Primary-Behavioral Care Integration

    A Federally Qualified Health Center is breaking down organizational silos, and patients are experiencing the benefits.


  • Med-Cal renewal documents spread out on a table.
    Feature Story

    How to Keep Your Family’s Medi-Cal Benefits

    Health officials and advocates are urging Medi-Cal enrollees to contact their county office to update their eligibility information and to be on the lookout for renewal forms in the mail.


  • Doctor shaking hands with person wearing suit.
    Report

    Collaborative Agreements in Health Care

    This issue brief describes collaborative agreements, examines their potential effects in California, and highlights some intricacies for their oversight.


  • Knowledge Center

    Money Matters 201: Tools for Understanding Costs, Predicting Cash Flow, and Braiding Funding

    This 10-part training series was designed for housing and homeless service agencies interested in contracting with managed care plans to provide housing-related Community Supports. Each of the 10 webinars is freely available. Materials are also available for download.


  • Knowledge Center

    Money Matters 101: Service Costs, Estimating Revenue

    This 10-part training series was designed for housing and homeless service agencies interested in contracting with managed care plans to provide housing-related Community Supports. Each of the 10 webinars is freely available. Materials are also available for download.


  • Knowledge Center

    Medi-Cal Academy for Homeless Service Providers

    This 10-part training series was designed for housing and homeless service agencies interested in contracting with managed care plans to provide housing-related Community Supports. Each of the 10 webinars is freely available. Materials are also available for download.


  • Doctors consult via video conference
    Feature Story

    Start-Up Provides Reproductive Care for Underserved Communities

    Twentyeight Health was built to provide reproductive and sexual health care to women and birthing people of color and those with low incomes. More than half of its users are Medicaid enrollees.


  • Medical team working in Emergency Room
    Quick Read

    Heading for an Acute Crisis?

    This Issue Brief updates prior estimates of utilization, costs, and revenue in California hospitals through the end of 2022.