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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Deborah Kelch, executive director of the Insure the Uninsured Project, reflects on four decades in California health policy and what she expects the future to bring.
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Popular cultural platforms are adapting messages to address current social issues like behavioral health and addiction.
This report outlines a spectrum of policy, contracting, and financing levers available to states working to advance interoperability, with a special focus on California’s potential paths forward.
In 2019, CHCF commissioned a statewide survey to better understand medical care and services Californians would prefer to receive if they had a serious illness or if they were approaching the end of life, and to explore the experiences of…
In 2019, CHCF commissioned a statewide survey to better understand the type of medical care and services Californians would prefer to receive if they had a serious illness or if they were approaching the end of life, and to explore…
This issue of CIN Connections features insights on California’s policy landscape from California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly and California Senator Holly Mitchell, tips on building a new model for complex care, and CIN partners’ future goals in tackling…
Far more patients with low incomes seek specialty care than there are specialists to help them. A physician describes one tonic for California’s overtaxed specialty referral system.
Nowhere is the need to measure racial and ethnic health disparities greater than in California, one of the few states where people of color compose the majority of the population.
Medi-Cal enrollees in 18 rural counties in California receive care under Medi-Cal’s Regional Model of managed care. This report compares access to care, quality of care, and both patients’ and providers’ satisfaction in Regional Model counties with other rural counties…
This report explores quality of care, access to care, and patient satisfaction for Medi-Cal enrollees in counties that use the Geographic Managed Care Model, which uses five or more Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) to deliver services. Results are compared…
Community Health Center Network offers its providers the option to use RubiconMD’s platform to request a virtual consultation from a specialist, which can prevent both unnecessary visits and delays in patient access to specialty care. Outside evaluators documented providers’ experiences…
Five federal district courts have issued preliminary injunctions against the Trump administration’s public charge rule. The actions blocked a policy expected to reduce immigrants’ access to health care, burden safety-net providers, and jeopardize public health in immigrant communities.