The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
CHCF publishes reports, articles, issue briefs, explainers, data snapshots, infographics, fact sheets, and other resources to help make meaningful change in California’s health care system.
The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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Physician services account for 20% of total health care spending. Yet information about the structure, characteristics, and financing of physician practices is piecemeal and often not publicly available. This paper reviews available information sources on the physician practice landscape in…
Thirteen primary care providers and three behavioral health and substance use treatment organizations delivered 14,000 health care consultations to over 3,500 clients.
All patients should benefit from digital health tools regardless of their cultural background, language, income, race, or ethnicity. The two papers in this series focus on how to create equity and inclusion during technology implementation and design to help health…
To address challenges related to meeting the health care needs of people experiencing homelessness, the Center for Health Care Strategies, with support from CHCF, created the California Health Care and Homelessness Learning Community, which brought together California stakeholders to learn…
For Black patients, all too often an engagement with health care providers becomes an odyssey of treatment that is starkly different from that experienced by White patients.
Too often, the first response to people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis is law enforcement. Communities across California are working to retool their approach to people undergoing behavioral health crises by developing mobile crisis response services. The…
The nation’s largest independent federally qualified health center has partnered with other organizations to provide tens of thousands of COVID-19 shots as part of a comprehensive public education campaign.
CHCF is working with partners to understand the health care experiences of Black Californians and to reform the system to be more responsive to and effective at meeting their needs.
Improving Birth Equity in California’s Health Care System is a quality-improvement initiative designed to improve birth care, experiences, and outcomes for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people in California.