This community-based project leveraged longitudinal, trusting relationships of care managers with their medically fragile clients enrolled in Medi-Cal to try to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates. Although the project did not accomplish this goal, it offers insights into challenges and potential opportunities to improve the delivery of preventive health care among similarly vulnerable populations.

This study from RAND Corporation and MedStar Health Research Institute examined the intersection of patient safety and racism with a focus on clinician leaders’ perspectives.

More than two million seniors and people with disabilities (SPDs) enrolled in Medi-Cal will be impacted by reforms, initiatives, and new policies as a result of CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal). This issue brief describes key care delivery transitions related to CalAIM implementation, and outlines challenges and opportunities to ensure these changes are as smooth as possible for SPDs, their caregivers, and providers.

Leaders of public hospital inpatient palliative care services (IPPCs) often need to make the case to health system clinical and administrative leaders to secure resources needed to sustain, improve, or expand the palliative care service. The materials provided here review useful tactics and tools for making the case and keeping IPPC on the radar of leaders who make resource allocation decisions.

Leaders of public hospital outpatient palliative care (OPPC) services often need to make the case to health system clinical and administrative leaders to secure resources needed to sustain, improve, or expand the palliative care service. The materials provided here review useful tactics and tools for making the case and for keeping OPPC on the radar of leaders who make resource allocation decisions.

This practical guide is intended to serve as a tool for communities at any stage of engagement in cross-sector data sharing between health and homeless systems of care. It is designed to help communities ready to start such efforts for the first time, as well as those that have room to grow their data sharing efforts.

This CIN toolkit offers concrete, practical approaches and resources to help health care organizations — including those that provide, pay for, or support primary care — to increase quality improvement efforts that center racial health equity. Case studies provide insights into how organizations have implemented improvements.

Starting January 1, 2023, California's CalAIM reform initiative will require that care in nursing homes and other institutional settings be provided as a "carve-in" benefit through Medi-Cal managed care plans statewide. This report describes challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned from select California counties and other states where institutional long-term care has already been administered by managed care plans.

This report explores opportunities for innovation, challenges, current policies, and implications for innovators. It presents a range of stakeholder perspectives on home-based medical care and highlights different approaches to showcase how different models can work within California's health ecosystem.