Building Leadership

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.

DHCS Academy: First-in-the-Nation Experiment Is a Big Success Story

January 12, 2017

Karen Johnson, Eric Douglas

The California Health Care Foundation launched DHCS Academy, the first such program in the nation, to help Medi-Cal executives develop leadership skills. The state now funds it independently.

How One Doctor Realized He Was His Own Biggest Management Problem

J. Duncan Moore, Jr.

CHCF's leadership program for health professionals in management roles dramatically changed the professional and personal life of a promising young physician.

Care Excellence: Case Management Education

CHCF supports this online and in-person training program for care managers at health plans, health homes, and other organizations caring for complex patient populations.