Building Leadership

CIN Connections, Fall 2020 — Emerging Innovations: Health Care During a Pandemic

In this issue of CIN Connections, learn how Dr. Mitch Katz, president and CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals, adapted its health care delivery model in the surge of the pandemic in New York City, and how CIN partners have adapted their work in the midst of massive change.

In Pandemic, Health Care Leaders Find Strength Through Vulnerability and Connection

In video and survey interviews, CHCF takes a deeper look into the successes and challenges facing clinicians during the COVID-19 crisis.

Weighing In: CHCF Leadership Fellows React to the COVID-19 Pandemic

In April 2020, less than three weeks into California’s statewide shelter-in-place order, the Healthforce Center at UCSF surveyed alumni of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their patients, their workplace colleagues, and themselves.

Application Deadline Extended for CHCF Leadership Program

Michelle Schneidermann

Extraordinary events have disrupted our lives, but now may be the best time ever to apply for a fellowship.

CIN Connections, Spring 2020 — Foundations for Health

Workforce, Maternal Health

This issue of CIN Connections features tips on how to be a resilient leader, make strategic decisions around social needs interventions, as well as lessons on building partnerships across the health care landscape.

Transforming the Health Care Field

Informing Change

This evaluation measures the extent to which alumni of the CHCF Leadership Program have drawn on the skills, relationships, resources, and opportunities they acquired through the program to effect change within their organizations and in the health care field.

Committed Physician Recruits Young People to Diversify Health Care Workforce

Heather Stringer

Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, a no-nonsense doctor from Oakland’s Highland Hospital, is on the lookout for youth from families with low incomes who could become future nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, and more.

At the Center of San Francisco’s Safety Net, the CEO Leans In

October 4, 2018

Expanding Health Coverage, Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

Two years into her tenure as CEO of San Francisco's major public hospital, Susan Ehrlich is enchanted with her work and the management technique that won her the job.

CHCF Health Care Leadership Program Announces New Class of Fellows (2018–2020)

September 18, 2018

Thirty-two clinical leaders have been selected to participate in the California Health Care Foundation's Health Care Leadership Program to expand their management skills and meet the challenges facing our state's health care system.

Doctors Are Changing San Diego’s Opioid Prescribing Practices

A large group of San Diego physicians is making progress against the opioid epidemic by educating prescribers and patients about ways to change longstanding practices.

CIN Connections, Summer 2018 — Beyond the Exam Room

The Summer 2018 edition of CIN Connections offers actionable information on tackling provider burnout and promoting well-being.

San Joaquin Health Plan CEO Built the Plane as She Was Flying It

Medi-Cal, Expanding Health Coverage

CEO Amy Shin of nonprofit Health Plan of San Joaquin started her job with a frantic first year of financial damage control, and now the plan is running with a higher level of sophistication and nearly $1 billion in annual revenue.

CIN Resource Kit: Improving Provider Well-Being

This resource page can serve as a starting point for health care leaders to tackle staff and provider burnout at their organizations.

Sharpening Our Focus

February 20, 2018

The California Health Care Foundation wants partners and other stakeholders to understand what our new strategic priorities mean in practice.

Opioid Safety Coalitions to Accelerate Impact with New Network Leader

October 10, 2017

The Public Health Institute has been chosen to assume leadership of the California Opioid Safety Network in a multifaceted effort to ease the toll of the opioid epidemic.