Evaluation

Two Reports Detail Health Centers’ Implementation of Telehealth Visits for Underserved Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The emergence of COVID-19 prompted a dramatic increase in telehealth services among health care providers seeking to offer continuity of care for patients. The rapid change prompted CHCF to sponsor two studies to determine the capacity of health centers to implement virtual care and to examine the experiences of health care staff in delivering care.

Collaboration in California’s Diverse Journalism Ecosystem

Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program

CHCF commissioned this report to explore examples of collaboration between ethnic media and mainstream media in California. The goal of this research is to gather insights into good practices that support mutually beneficial collaboration, key challenges and inhibiting factors, and lessons for how to support effective and equitable collaboration.

San Francisco Puts Community Paramedics on Front Lines of the Pandemic

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Homelessness & Health Care, Workforce

It's no easy task to find people who lack shelter, have substance use disorders, and mistrust authorities — and then persuade them to move into a quarantine site.

Evaluation of LA Care’s eManagement Program

Behavioral Health

L.A. Care health plan launched eManagement, a web-based program, to improve quality and delivery of behavioral health services for its members. This evaluation by JSI was favorable and informed L.A. Care's decision to continue and scale eManagement.

February 4, 2020

CIN Webinar — Value-Based Payment Readiness Assessment

February 4, 2020

This webinar recording provides an overview of Health Quality Partners' Managed Medi-Cal Value-Based Payment (VBP) Readiness Assessment.

Assessing the Effectiveness of CHCF’s Health Journalism Grant Portfolio

Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program

For over 20 years, the California Health Care Foundation has funded nonprofit journalism to help strengthen the media’s capacity to cover health policy in California. The goal of this investment: to ensure that audiences have access to timely, relevant information about the most pressing issues related to the health care and policy 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.

Evaluation of Provider Experiences with eConsults

Telehealth, Investing in Innovation

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 and satisfaction with the platform.

Can Behavioral Health Entrepreneurs Finally Break Through?

September 20, 2019

Investing in Innovation, Behavioral Health

In 2018, health tech start-ups raised nearly $400 million in funding for technology investments related to behavioral health. In what areas are innovators making genuine progress?

Putting Prescription Refill Automation Tech to the Test in the Safety Net

Investing in Innovation

The average physician receives 10 to 25 prescription refill requests per day, contributing to a growing administrative burden — especially in under-resourced safety-net institutions. A tech solution helped two California health centers.

Lessons Learned from Implementing a Practice Automation Platform in the Safety Net

Investing in Innovation

This report evaluates the effectiveness of Charlie, a practice automation platform developed by CHCF investee healthfinch, in safety-net settings. Two Federally Qualified Health Centers implemented Charlie, and both saw positive changes, including to time spent on refills, efficiency of refills, and provider satisfaction.

Evaluation of a Collaborative Maternal Mental Health Care Pilot

Maternal Health

Maternal Mental Health Now (MMHN) established a model of collaborative care at three federally qualified health centers in Los Angeles. Outside evaluators documented whether this model achieved the desired outcomes at each clinical site, and assessed the potential for spread to reach underserved perinatal populations.

Home Again in California, Physician Focuses on Care of the Caretakers

November 30, 2017

Avram Goldstein

Maternal Health

The California Health Care Foundation's newest board member is Carolina Reyes, an obstetrician recognized nationwide for her efforts to improve the care of women with high-risk pregnancies — especially those in medically underserved communities.

Finding Focus: Reflections on a Decade of Work in End-of-Life Care

Fred Setterberg

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

A 2006 CHCF report about Californians' views on end-of-life care served to catalyze future funding on the topic. This publication examines a decade of investments by the foundation since then.

Tapping into Digitized Behavioral Therapy: Lessons from the Safety Net

Melissa Buckley

Behavioral Health

Patients with depression or chronic pain may be helped by computerized cognitive behavioral therapy. Two pilot tests in safety-net clinics point to barriers and their solutions.