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Health Equity
All Californians deserve the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential for health. But too many Californians today face unacceptable barriers to care because of their race, ethnicity, immigration status, or ZIP code. CHCF is working with a wide range of partners to prioritize health equity and create a health care system that meets the needs of all Californians.
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Recovery with Limited Progress: Impact of California Proposition 209 on Racial/Ethnic Diversity of California Medical School Matriculants

New report by the Healthforce Center at UCSF shows lingering impacts of Proposition 209 on racial diversity in California medical schools. It also identifies proven solutions with potential for even more impact.

Project

Improving Birth Equity in California’s Health Care System

Maternal Health, Health Equity
Improving Birth Equity in California's Health Care System is a quality-improvement initiative designed to improve birth care, experiences, and outcomes for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people in California.
CHCF Blog

Listening to Black Californians: Racism and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

December 2, 2020
Vanessa Grubbs
Health Equity
Black Californians are being hit hard by the compounding stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural racism that they have always lived with.
Publication

COVID-19 in California’s Nursing Homes: Factors Associated with Cases and Deaths

December 2020
Cal Hospital Compare, UCSF, IBM Watson Health
Nursing homes — compared to other health care facilities — have been carrying the heaviest burden of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California and across the nation. Researchers analyzed numerous potential factors that may have put California nursing home residents at increased risk of infection and mortality from this virus.
CHCF Blog

Biden’s Panel Outlines Proactive Pandemic Response as COVID-19 Toll Soars

November 16, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity, Expanding Health Coverage
Stories That Caught Our Attention: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have wasted no time preparing their response to the rapidly worsening coronavirus pandemic.
CHCF Blog

More Health Tech Investors Pushing for Diversity, Inclusion

December 1, 2020
Diana Williams
Investing in Innovation
Like leaders in many organizations and institutions, some in the venture capital industry are taking action to stop perpetuating health care inequities.
CHCF Blog

It’s Time for California to Solve the Double Standard of Care

October 25, 2019
Sandra R. Hernández
Health Equity
Progress requires the entire health care system to demonstrate leadership. Count on CHCF to be an active partner in this vital effort.
Publication

Working Californians Enrolled in Medi-Cal Share Their Stories

October 2020
NORC at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal covers close to three million working Californians. Many became eligible because the ACA expanded the program to more adults with low incomes. This report combines key findings from survey data with insights from in-depth interviews with enrollees to paint a picture of working Californians who rely on Medi-Cal, why they came to enroll in the program, and the role it plays in their lives.
CHCF Blog

When Inequity Gets Measured, It Gets Managed

October 19, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: How California is trying to ensure that its 58 counties don't overlook the health of neighborhoods most deeply affected by COVID-19.
Publication

Listening to Californians with Low Incomes

October 2020
Jen Joynt, Rebecca Catterson, MPH, Lucy Rabinowitz, MPH
Health Equity
Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: Health Care Access, Experiences, and Concerns Since the COVID-19 Pandemic is a compilation of early findings from a statewide survey of the health care experiences of California’s residents. The survey included an oversampling of residents with low incomes.
CHCF Blog

Improving the Health of Black Women in California

October 2, 2020
Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health
An interview with Sonya Young Aadam, CEO of California Black Women's Health Project.
CHCF Blog

COVID-19 Tracking Poll: One in Five Californians Knows Someone Who Died of COVID-19

September 3, 2020
Kristof Stremikis
Black and Latinx Californians are more likely than white Californians to know someone who has died of the new coronavirus.
Collection

Changes to Public Charge Rule

Medi-Cal
On August 12, 2019, the federal government finalized radical changes to “public charge” rules in an effort to disqualify many immigrants from gaining permanent residency in the US. The rule went into effect in California on February 24, 2020, even as multiple legal challenges continue to move through the federal courts. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service has announced that immigrants can seek testing, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19 without fearing immigration consequences due to public charge.
CHCF Blog

Why Nursing Homes Become COVID-19 Hot Spots

July 13, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Before the deaths began to mount, geriatricians knew what was about to happen.
CHCF Blog

Podcast Project Captures Voices of Black Health Care Workers

July 13, 2020
Steven Birenbaum
Workforce
More than 200 health care workers have signed up to participate.
CHCF Blog

Coronavirus Doesn’t Recognize Man-Made Borders

June 22, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: The COVID-19 crisis is straining the local health care systems on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
CHCF Blog

Racism Fuels Double Crisis: Police Violence and COVID-19 Disparities

June 8, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity
Systemic racism undergirds COVID-19 health disparities and the plague of police violence, both of which kill Black Americans at disproportionately high rates.
CHCF Blog

Black Lives Do Matter

May 31, 2020
Sandra R. Hernández
Health Equity
No one should tolerate a system that devalues Black lives.
CHCF Blog

Staying Home: Not an Option Available to All

April 27, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Many workers must choose between staying home when ill or going to work sick so they can keep getting paid.
CHCF Blog

Lifting Up Solutions that Support Black Mothers

April 26, 2019
Xenia Shih Bion
Maternal Health, Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Amid all the excellent media coverage of the US maternal mortality crisis, something has been missing. "Too much reporting on Black maternal health has been doom and gloom," says one California nursing professor.
CHCF Blog

Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19

April 20, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Maternal Health, Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: How can we support Black mothers and birthing people during a pandemic that is amplifying health disparities?
CHCF Blog

COVID-19 Shines a Harsh Light on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

April 13, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal
Stories That Caught Our Attention: How the epidemic is exacerbating the health disparities that have long burdened people of color.
CHCF Blog

COVID-19: A Perfect Storm of Health Care Inequality

April 10, 2020
Sandra R. Hernández, Kara Carter
Health Equity
Unacceptable societal barriers put people of color at greater risk in the epidemic. How will California respond?
Publication

2020 Edition — Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth

March 2020
Jen Joynt
Maternal Health, Health Equity
This set of quality measures focuses on maternal health and childbirth.
Publication

2019 Edition — Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

October 2019
Robbin Gaines
Health Equity
California is the most racially diverse state in the country, and addressing health disparities experienced by people of color is critically important. This Almanac report shows that people of color face barriers to accessing health care, often receive suboptimal treatment, and are most likely to experience poor outcomes in the health care system.
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