Building Leadership

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 addressing the social needs of patients in their lives outside the exam room.

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.

CHCF Health Care Leadership Program Announces New Class of Fellows

September 16, 2017

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.

Designer of Paramedicine Pilot Says Safety Is Job One

September 14, 2017

Avram Goldstein

Behavioral Health, Workforce

The architect of California's most successful community paramedicine pilot project explains why these projects should be permitted all over the state.

Los Angeles Doctor Speeds Change with Medical Incubator

August 17, 2017

A doctor in CHCF's Leadership Program formulated an ambitious plan to cultivate and spread an important health system innovation. Then he realized he needed to start over and develop an even bigger one.

How CHCF’s Leadership Program Reinvigorated Two Stellar Careers

Heather Boerner

Ann Lindsay, MD, and her husband, Alan Glaseroff, MD, might not have developed new ways to care for complex patients if they hadn't participated in CHCF's two-year leadership program.

How California Can Meet the Challenge of Accurately Diagnosing Autism

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

Hundreds of children in low-income households who are thought to have autism spectrum disorder are being diagnosed more accurately and more rapidly through a trailblazing program in the Inland Empire.