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Over the next decade, California faces a number of health workforce challenges, including a population that is growing, aging, and becoming more diverse. To meet these and other challenges, California must develop a modern health workforce that delivers smarter, more affordable care. That will require a new generation of health professionals with roles, skills, and workflows that match our latest understanding of how best to deliver high-quality, high-value care.

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Advancing Black Health Equity

Health Equity, Workforce

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.

California Poised for Major Expansion of Community Health Workers

August 17, 2021

Workforce, Medi-Cal

The 2021–22 state budget establishes a community health worker benefit within Medi-Cal.

Aligning Nurse Practitioner Statutes in California

Garrett K. Chan, Karen G. Duderstadt, Catherine Dower

AB 890, passed in 2020, authorizes California nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice at the top of their competence without physician supervision and with a defined scope of practice. This report outlines the California codes that may need to be updated and harmonized with AB 890 to full realize this additional capacity of NPs.

Nurse Practitioners Continue Long Wait for Independence as Nursing Board Deliberates

Heather Stringer

Gaps in care persist as regulators set the terms of AB 890 implementation that will govern California nurse practitioners' transition to practice.

CIN Connections, Summer 2021 — Caring and Sharing: Supporting the Primary Care Workforce

In this issue of CIN Connections, learn about strategies from health care leaders as they wrestle with increased levels of burnout, trauma, and moral injury among the primary care workforce. Hear about multimodal approaches to building a culture of well-being — creating a workplace where it’s okay to not be okay, to talk about feelings, and to get support.

Risky Business: California Health Centers Weakened by the COVID-19 Pandemic Prepare for the Future

Carol Backstrom, Lauren Block, Allison Coleman

Telehealth, Workforce

California's Federally Qualified Health Centers experienced many financial challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report summarizes policy options that have the potential to improve FQHC stability, address health equity, and ensure access to a broader range of services in the long term.

Health Workforce Strategies for California

This collection of publications examines the evidence on the impact of key health workforce policy interventions, such as pipeline and loan repayment programs, to achieve goals like diversifying the workforce, increasing the number of health professionals who provide care in a language other than English, and increasing access to care in medically underserved areas.

Expanding Postbaccalaureate Programs to Address California’s Health Workforce Crisis

Prehealth postbaccalaureate programs (PBPs) increase the rates at which students from underrepresented communities are admitted to and graduate from medical school. PBP participants are more likely to provide care in underserved areas.

Expanding Graduate Medical Education in California: The Role of GME-Naive Hospitals

"Medicare GME-naive hospitals" have never been teaching hospitals before and can potentially be used for new residency programs using federal funds. Doing so in underserved regions can help California produce more physicians in the areas that need them the most.

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Workforce, Health Equity

This brief identifies policy strategies to increase the number of health professionals with language concordance — those that speak the same language as their patients. This is especially important in California where 44% of households speak a language other than English.

A Call for Meaningful Change

Behavioral Health, Telehealth, Health Equity, Workforce

'Listening to Californians with Low Incomes' report sounds alarm on deteriorating mental health.

Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: How They Experience the Health Care System and What It Means for the Future

Jen Joynt, Lucy Rabinowitz, Rebecca Catterson

Telehealth, Workforce, Medi-Cal

Explore key findings and implications for the future from a statewide survey of California residents with low incomes who received care between March 2019 and August 2020. The survey included an oversampling of residents with low incomes.

Effects of Threats, Harassment Directed at Public Health Officials May Outlast Pandemic

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The nation's beleaguered public health workforce is looking forward to help from the American Rescue Plan Act.

Health Workforce Strategies for California: A Review of the Evidence

This report reviews the evidence about the impact of key health workforce policy interventions in California, including pipeline programs, scholarship programs, loan repayment programs, funding of graduate-level health profession training programs, and residency funding.

Study: Higher Death Rates and Taxpayer Costs at Nursing Homes Owned by Private Equity

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Researchers were stunned by the data they found.