Providers

Business Planning for Housing-Related Community Supports

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Health Equity, Workforce

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the disparities in the state’s recruitment and retention of Latino/x and Black medical students.

The California Street Medicine Landscape Survey and Report

USC Street Medicine

Homelessness & Health Care

This study is the first to examine and report on the current state of street medicine in California. With the largest concentration of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the nation, California is well positioned to scale the street medicine model to reach more people in need.

California’s Direct Care Workforce

University of California, San Francisco

Older Adults with Complex Needs

Direct care workers are the personal care aides, home health aides, and certified nurse assistants that provide hands-on, daily, and long-term assistance to older adults and people with disabilities. An issue brief and Quick Reference Guide provide overviews of this critical element of the health care workforce.

A Game Changer for Street Medicine: Key Takeaways from New Medi-Cal Guidelines

Homelessness & Health Care

In November 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services shared an "All Plan Letter" that could make it easier for communities to establish, maintain, and fully leverage street medicine programs.This issue brief lays out the major implications of this new guidance, along with key issues that remain.

Accelerating Impact: How to Support Nurse Practitioners in Expanding Access to Care

Based on focus groups and key-informant interviews, this issue brief explores the driving factors and the challenges to implementing AB 890 and expanding nurse practitioner services in California.

Advancing Latino/x Health Equity

The California Health Care Foundation is focused on advancing policies and practices that will improve timely access to high-quality primary, specialty, and mental health care for Latino/x Californians and eliminate avoidable differences in health outcomes.

Advancing Equity in Medi-Cal’s Home and Community-Based Services

Older Adults with Complex Needs

With support from CHCF, Justice in Aging is producing a series of issue briefs focused on helping state agencies, policymakers, and other stakeholders in efforts to support equitable HCBS rather than institutional care where possible and desirable.

Identifying and Understanding Ways to Address the Impact of Racism on Patient Safety in Health Care Settings

RAND Corporation

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.

Resources to Support Palliative Care in Public Hospitals

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This collection includes information and tools to help leaders of palliative care programs at public health care systems to sustain and expand inpatient and outpatient services that meet the needs of people with serious illnesses.

Easing Transitions: CalAIM’s Changes for California’s Older Adults and People with Disabilities

Center for Health Care Strategies, Decipher Health Strategies, Chapman Consulting

Older Adults with Complex Needs

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.

2022 Edition — California Hospitals

California’s 337 general acute care (GAC) hospitals discharged 2.8 million patients and had 40.1 million outpatient visits in 2020. This quick reference guide provides an overview of the state’s GAC hospitals, including number of beds, use of services, and selected financial measures.

How Does SB 1375’s Proposed Transition-to-Practice Period Compare to Other States?

This fact sheet compares a proposed-transition to-practice (TTP) period for nurse practitioners in California to TTP periods in other states.

2022 Edition — Mental Health in California

Behavioral Health

Using the most recent data available, this Almanac provides an overview of mental health statewide: disease prevalence, suicide rates, supply and use of treatment providers, and mental health in the criminal justice system.

Making the Case for Inpatient Palliative Care

J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

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.