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Health Equity
All Californians should have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential for health. CHCF is working with a wide range of partners to remove structural barriers to care and build a just and equitable health care system that is designed to redress, not perpetuate, the inequities that too many of our fellow Californians face.
Learn about CHCF’s approach to building health equity in California


CHCF Blog

Penalizing Abortion Providers Will Have Ripple Effects Across Pregnancy Care

May 5, 2022
Julia Strasser, Candice Chen, Sara Rosenbaum, Ellen Schenk, Emma Dewhurst 
Health Equity, Workforce, Maternal Health
The Supreme Court is moving toward reversing Roe v. Wade and eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion. This could have immeasurable negative effects on pregnant people and families, including the loss of access to necessary treatment associated with miscarriage.
Publication

A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement

April 2022
Health Equity
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.
CHCF Blog

Provider Shortage Persists While Regulators Consider Implementation of Nurse Practitioner Law

March 24, 2022
Heather Stringer
Workforce, Medi-Cal, Health Equity
The legislation could increase access to care for many Californians — but not until detailed standards have been adopted through regulations or changes in state law.
CHCF Blog

California Medicine Scholars Program Prepares to Take Flight

March 8, 2022
Anne Sunderland
Health Equity, Workforce
The California Medicine Scholars Program plans to shepherd students of color from community college through medical school and beyond.
CHCF Blog

‘You Want Your Immune System Protecting You and Your Baby’

March 3, 2022
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity
Ob/gyns, a nurse, and a midwife answer FAQs about the COVID-19 vaccine, pregnancy, and fertility.
CHCF Blog

Data Exchange Is at the Heart of California’s Drive for Health Equity

February 24, 2022
John Ohanian
Data Exchange, Health Equity
A new stakeholder agreement on guiding principles lays the groundwork for crucial innovations.
Publication

Bridging the Digital Health Divide Series

February 2022
Courtney R. Lyles, Adrian Aguilera, Oanh Nguyen, Urmimala Sarkar
Health Equity, Investing in Innovation, Telehealth
All patients should benefit from digital health tools regardless of their cultural background, language, income, race, or ethnicity. The two papers in this series focus on how to create equity and inclusion during technology implementation and design to help health care providers, health plans, and developers reach everyone.
CHCF Blog

Retired California Physicians Return to Practice Medicine in Low-Income Communities

February 14, 2022
Heather Stringer
Workforce, Health Equity
Two programs help experienced MDs ease provider shortages at community clinics.
CHCF Blog

Black Californians Diagnose Structural Obstacles to Equitable Health Care

February 11, 2022
David E. Thigpen
Health Equity
For Black patients, all too often an engagement with health care providers becomes an odyssey of treatment that is starkly different from that experienced by White patients.
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Health Care Systems

Health Equity
CHCF is working with partners to understand the health care experiences of Black Californians and to reform the system to be more responsive to and effective at meeting their needs.
Program

Birth Equity

Health Equity, Maternal Health
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

AltaMed Asks Unvaccinated Latinx Californians: “Come On! What Are You Waiting For?”

February 7, 2022
Ivan Fernandez
Health Equity
The nation’s largest independent federally qualified health center has partnered with other organizations to provide tens of thousands of COVID-19 shots as part of a comprehensive public education campaign.
CHCF Blog

California Leaders Revive Paid Sick Leave for Essential Workers

January 31, 2022
Heather Tirado Gilligan
Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Without sick leave, workers are forced to choose between paying their bills and possibly spreading COVID-19.
CHCF Blog

Medi-Cal Quality Strategy Explores Bold Steps Toward Health Equity

January 26, 2022
Christopher Perrone
Health Equity
The strategy will shape how health care will be provided to almost one in three Californians.
Publication

In Their Own Words: Black Californians on Racism and Health Care

January 2022
Linda Cummings, PhD
Health Equity
CHCF commissioned interviews with 100 Black Californians to understand their views on health and well-being, their perceptions of discrimination and bias in the health care system, and their views on what a quality health care system looks like. This report describes the results of Phase I of the three-part Listening to Black Californians study.
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