Physicians

California’s Nurse Practitioners: How Scope of Practice Laws Impact Care

California is one of a handful of states that restricts nurse practitioners' ability to work without physician oversight. This paper examines how these restrictions impact care.

A Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California

University of California, San Francisco, The Robert Graham Center

This comprehensive overview describes the landscape of graduate medical education (GME) funding in California, including sources, amounts, and distribution across the state. This series also includes a report outlining recommendations for expanding GME and seven issue briefs covering key issues facing GME in this state.

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.

California’s Physician Supply and Distribution: Headed for a Drought?

Janet Coffman, Margaret Fix, MPH, Michelle Ko

According to data from physician surveys, California's medical doctors are unevenly distributed across the state, and new doctors aren't being trained in great enough numbers to address this imbalance.

Bourdain on Addiction: There Is No Them — There Is Only Us

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The late chef, author, and television personality Anthony Bourdain, who recovered from heroin addiction in the 1980s, used his global platform to educate the public about the opioid crisis.

The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now

Xenia Shih Bion

Telehealth, Workforce

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: As providers adopt new technologies, the debate over high-tech health care delivery has intensified. What does the future hold?

More High-Touch Than High-Tech, Providers Show Up at Seniors’ Front Doors

Workforce, Telehealth

The population of seniors is growing rapidly while the physician supply shrinks — especially among primary care doctors and geriatricians. Many health care organizations are exploring a surprising solution: old-fashioned house calls mixed with new technology.

SB 1004 Implementation Technical Assistance Series: Strategies for Addressing Common Challenges

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This webinar will highlight findings from the recent strategy exchange workshops as well as what we learned from surveys completed by plans and providers describing their early experiences with SB 1004 implementation.

In Humboldt County, Efforts to Fight Opioid Epidemic Bring Progress

Humboldt County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, but recent media coverage missed significant, successful steps local leaders have taken to stem the tide. (Aerial photo of Humboldt Bay: Robert Campbell)

Essential Coverage: The Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week

Xenia Shih Bion

Behavioral Health, Health Care Costs

Welcome to the first edition of Essential Coverage. Every Friday, we’ll send you into the weekend with a recap of stories we found worth reading — stories covering all our topics, from health reform to maternal health, to opioid safety, and much more.

Underfunded Residency Programs Spur Local Efforts to Ease Doctor Shortage

Federal residency funding has remained stagnant for decades while the number of medical schools increases and doctors from other countries arrive to compete for positions in training. A physician describes the implications. (Photo: Dean Ishida/UCLA)

Leaning in to Succeed in Public Hospitals

Joanna Omi, Anne Boyd Rabkin

In this issue brief, two Bay Area health care leaders describe the successes and challenges that came with adopting Lean methodologies in their hospitals.

New CHCF Investment Streamlines Care Coordination in the Safety Net

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Health care providers cannot effectively coordinate a patient’s care without access to a shared set of accurate clinical information about that patient. That’s what Collective Medical aims to provide, and that’s why it has received the CHCF Innovation Fund’s latest program-related investment.

SB 1004 Implementation Technical Assistance Series: Estimating Volume and Baseline Costs

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This webinar covered approaches to estimating the number of people who would be eligible for palliative care services under SB 1004, and for understanding their baseline health care use patterns.

October 5, 2017

SB 1004 Implementation Technical Assistance Series: Estimating Care Delivery Costs

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

October 5, 2017

A webinar and in-person workshops designed to help providers anticipate the costs of delivering palliative care, and to help payers understand the elements that impact cost.