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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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.
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…
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.’
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.
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.
This issue brief highlights challenges and opportunities to improve care for Medi-Cal Seniors and Persons with Disabilities under the state’s CalAIM initiative.
The initial podcast episodes focus on effective ways to establish partnerships between health care providers and community-based organizations that offer housing, nutrition, and transportation services to patients.
California policymakers are turning their attention to a public health crisis that has bedeviled the state for decades: unjustifiably high and rising health care costs.
For the fourth time since 2009, CHCF commissioned reports of seven health care markets in California. The markets in the 2020 release — Humboldt/Del Norte, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Joaquin…
In this statewide survey of doctors, nurses, and other health care providers, nearly all (99%) said they have received a COVID-19 vaccine or plan to get it when a vaccine becomes available to them.