Providers

No Shortage of Patients — Only Providers

Xenia Shih Bion

Workforce, Behavioral Health

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: California has no shortage of patients. Unfortunately, the state doesn’t have enough health care professionals to care for them all — a shortage that experts predict will only worsen with time.

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.

CIN Resource Page: Making the Case to Address Social Needs

This resource page from the California Improvement Network consists of a short list of relevant and timely resources to help health care organizations address social needs that impact health.

A Long Road to Care for Rural Californians

Xenia Shih Bion

Payment & Financing

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care journalists delve into the complicated challenge of helping rural hospitals survive in a hostile financial environment.

Sustainable Models of Telehealth in the Safety Net

Telehealth, Medi-Cal

Working with Medi-Cal managed care plans and community health centers across the state, CHCF is implementing the initiative, Sustainable Models of Telehealth in the Safety Net, to improve access to specialty care among Medi-Cal enrollees.

Community Paramedicine in California: Overview of Pilot Projects

California is piloting the use of community paramedicine to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivery. Specially trained paramedics are partnered with other providers to meet local health care needs. These one-pagers describe the six concepts being piloted throughout the state.

Is Bigger Better? Exploring How System Membership Impacts Rural Hospitals

Glenn Melnick, Katya Fonkych

Payment & Financing

Research finds that system membership doesn't always lead to increased stability for California's rural hospitals.

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.

Herrmann Spetzler Remembered as ‘Visionary’ Who Developed California Rural Clinics

Spetzler's unexpected death shocked a rural community that had coalesced around his charismatic personality and irresistible vision for a health care system accessible to everyone regardless of income.

Refreshed California Improvement Network Set to Spread Ideas for Better Care

Boasting a new program office, a strong slate of partners, and refreshed agenda of focused topic areas, the California Improvement Network is working with renewed energy to spread innovation in care delivery.

CIN Connections, Spring 2018 — Healing the Healers

The spring 2018 edition of CIN Connections offers actionable information on tackling provider burnout and promoting well-being.

2018 Edition — Mental Health in California

Behavioral Health

Mental Health in California: For Too Many, Care Not There provides an overview of mental health in California: disease prevalence, suicide rates, supply and use of treatment providers, and mental health in the correctional system. This Almanac report also includes available data on spending and quality of care.

Seven Partnerships to Strengthen Community Health Centers

Kathryn Phillips

Payment & Financing

In California, the smaller community health centers that need the most support are the least likely to get it, and that poses a risk for the thousands of Californians with low incomes who rely on them. As California’s entire health care safety net moves forward, we can’t leave these smaller centers and their patients behind.

Partnering to Succeed

The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and JSI Research & Training Institute

This paper outlines seven partnership models that are helping small community health centers (CHCs) improve care and thrive under value-based payment. It also provides a framework to assess which partnership models are right for different CHCs.

California Improvement Network Announces New Partner Organizations

February 12, 2018

Seventeen health care organizations have been selected as partners for the California Health Care Foundation's California Improvement Network.