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  • Mammogram
    Behind the Headline

    Some Face Dire Consequences for Delaying Care During Pandemic

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Delayed preventive care and screenings are expected to take a devastating toll on some patients and families.

    •Primary Care
  • Feature Story

    Clinics Respond to Anti-Asian Hate with Many Kinds of Support

    Health centers serve as care providers, social services connectors, and community advocates, and they stepped up to help patients navigate the tribulations of the COVID-19 era.

    •Health Equity
  • Photo illustration of health care workers with colleagues missing, only silhouettes showing
    Tool

    CIN Resource Page: Building a Resilient Primary Care Workforce

    This California Improvement Network resource page provides curated tools to better understand the causes and consequences of burnout, secondary trauma, and moral injury and contains ideas and practices for better supporting the primary care workforce.

    •Health Workforce
  • Amy Neville stands for a portrait with a picture of her son Alexander Neville, who died in June 2020 at the age of 14 of fentanyl poisoning,
    Behind the Headline

    Early Data Show Overdose Deaths and Substance Use Rose During Pandemic

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Recent data on overdose deaths and substance use paint a grim picture of what the COVID-19 pandemic year has been like for people who are predisposed to substance use.

    •Behavioral Health
  • Expert Perspective

    We’re All in This Together 

    Since 2016, California has expanded Medi-Cal eligibility to include kids and young adults from low-income households, regardless of immigration status. Now the state has a golden opportunity to finish that job.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Digital road map
    Report

    CalAIM and Health Data Sharing

    The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program seeks to enhance information exchanged among managed care plans, providers, and county agencies. Learn more in this report, CalAIM and Health Data Sharing: A Road Map for Effective Implementation of Enhanced Care…

    •Technology and Innovation
  • Santa Cruz County health services director Mimi Hall stands in front of the sign for the Santa Cruz County Health Center
    Behind the Headline

    Effects of Threats, Harassment Directed at Public Health Officials May Outlast Pandemic

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: The nation’s beleaguered public health workforce is looking forward to help from the American Rescue Plan Act.

    •Primary Care
  • Feature Story

    Ending Phone Visits Would Be a Setback for Patients with Low Incomes

    The director of CHCF’s Improving Access team says we should build on what is working well to improve access to care, especially for those whose needs have historically not been well served by the health care system.

  • Report

    Health Workforce Strategies for California: A Review of the Evidence

    This report reviews the evidence about the impact of key health workforce policy interventions in California, including pipeline programs, scholarship programs, loan repayment programs, funding of graduate-level health profession training programs, and residency funding.

    •Health Workforce
  • Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a roundtable discussion on Black Women's Maternal Health
    Feature Story

    Maternal Health in Black and White

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Black Maternal Health Week called attention to the need for implicit bias training paired with policy changes to advance Black birth equity.

    •Maternal Health
  • Oakland/San Francisco Bridge with Emeryville waterfront in foreground and San Francisco in the distance
    Data Insight

    San Francisco Bay Area: Regional Health Systems Vie for Market Share

    Over the last 20 years, the Bay Area health care market has consolidated, leaving four dominant systems — Kaiser, Sutter Health, UCSF Health, and Stanford Health Care. At the same time, smaller systems, such as John Muir Health and El…

    •Facts and Data
  • Expert Perspective

    Hope That a More Perfect System Is Possible

    The verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is one step toward a more just society.

    •Health Equity
  • Fred Marziano got COVID-19 last March -- and the symptoms never went away
    Behind the Headline

    Skepticism, Slow Response Complicate Mysterious Misery of ‘Long COVID’

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Up to 30% of people who were infected with COVID-19 have had to cope with persistent symptoms from so-called ‘long Covid.’

    •Primary Care
  • a crowd of people for the shape of an umbrella
    Expert Perspective

    American Rescue Plan Improvements to Covered California Affordability: Who Gains?

    Over 1.6 million Californians will benefit from the rescue plan, including 151,000 individual market enrollees who will qualify for subsidies for the first time and 135,000 uninsured people who will become insured.

    •Health Care Costs/Affordability
  • Farmworkers harvest broccoli in an Adams Brothers Farm field near Santa Maria, Calif.
    Expert Perspective

    Undocumented Projected to Remain California’s Largest Group of Uninsured in 2022

    Even after the American Rescue Plan increases premium subsidies for health insurance purchased through Covered California, large inequities remain in who has access to affordable coverage.

    •Health Insurance Coverage