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  • 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.

    •Health Insurance Coverage

  • 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.

    •Homelessness

  • 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.

    •Homelessness
  • Tool

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • 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.

    •Technology and Innovation
  • 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.

    •Facts and Data
  • Illustration of two people standing at a grave
    Feature Story

    Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America

    Researchers report in JAMA that racial inequities led to 1.6 million excess deaths in the Black population over 22 years.

    •Health Equity
  • Report

    Breaking Ground: How California Is Using Medicaid to Improve the Health of People Leaving Incarceration

    This issue brief reviews this first real-world test of whether Medicaid coverage before jail or prison release will increase access to care and improve people’s health outcomes after they reenter the community.

    •Behavioral Health
  • Report

    Local Plan Strategies for CalAIM Incentive Payment Program

    In this short paper, learn how four local Medi-Cal managed care plans are using funds from California’s Incentive Payment Program to build provider capacity.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Expert Perspective

    Improving Access to Care Through Smart Workforce Strategies

    In a podcast interview, CHCF President and CEO Sandra R. Hernández talks about the importance of using the health care workforce strategically.

    •Health Workforce
  • Project

    Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce Capacity Building Collaborative

    The Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce Capacity Building Collaborative (CBC) supports four regional teams across the state, which have committed to develop financially sustainable models to grow the CHW/P workforce in their region as a means to advance health…

    •Health Workforce
  • Younger woman assists older woman at home
    Report

    In-Home Supportive Services 101: Opportunities and Challenges Under CalAIM

    This fact sheet provides an overview of the IHSS program and considerations to strengthen coordination of IHSS with other services.

    •Older Adults

  • Software Options and Data Elements for Housing-Related Community Supports

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Tool

    Guiding Principles for Medical Respite Care

    This short paper outlines the four principles that guide a medical respite care program. The principles should underpin all programs and service delivery and help decisionmakers ensure that care is centered on the needs of the people being served.

    •Homelessness
  • Tool

    Medical Respite Care: A Framework

    This framework was designed to help new and existing medical respite programs tailor their services to meet local needs while upholding a standard of high-quality, patient-centered care for those they serve.

    •Medi-Cal