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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.

Frontline Nurses Are Burning Out. This Digital Health Start-Up Is Trying to Change That

Laudio aims to help managers reduce high turnover rates among nurses and other frontline health care workers — a longstanding problem exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Penalizing Abortion Providers Will Have Ripple Effects Across Pregnancy Care

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.

Fact Sheet: Nurse Practitioners and California’s Latino/x Community

Nurse practitioners are a vital part of California’s health care workforce. Today they play a particularly important role providing care to underserved Californians, especially Latino communities.

Provider Shortage Persists While Regulators Consider Implementation of Nurse Practitioner Law

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.

Evaluation of the Encore Physicians Program

CHCF partnered with Engage R+D to evaluate the Encore Physicians Program, which uses retired physicians to fill staffing needs at community health centers.

California Medicine Scholars Program Prepares to Take Flight

Anne Sunderland

Health Equity, Workforce

The California Medicine Scholars Program plans to shepherd students of color from community college through medical school and beyond.

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.

COVID-19 Is Reshaping California’s Health Workforce

February 1, 2022

Avram Goldstein

A conversation with Joanne Spetz, director of UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission

Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission: State Policy and Budget Actions on Priority Recommendations provides an overview of how California has acted on Commission recommendations to grow and diversity its health workforce.

With Superheroes and Songs, El Sol’s Promotores Help Vaccinate Inland Empire

December 3, 2021

Workforce, Health Equity

Community health workers have devoted significant energy to disseminating information about the coronavirus and the vaccines that protect people from it.

Community Paramedicine Programs Come to Life in California

December 1, 2021

Jane Smith, Art Hsieh

Improving population outcomes at the street level, one patient at a time.

Innovation Landscape — Solving Shortages: How Technology Can Help Meet California’s Immediate Health Workforce Needs

Joanne Spetz, Amy Quan

Workforce, Investing in Innovation

This publication reviews the barriers to hiring providers in this specific sector of the health care system, the role of the temporary workforce, and the emergence of technology-enabled staffing companies as a potential alternative to traditional staffing agencies. An accompanying snapshot outlines data on key characteristics of vacancies, perceived recruitment challenges, and hiring of registry and contract providers.

Imminent Flu Season Could Cause Double Trouble

November 15, 2021

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Public health experts remain wary of a potential peril that the state avoided last winter — a “twindemic.”

Nursing Leader Illuminates Strategies to Expedite Independence for Nurse Practitioners

November 4, 2021

Heather Stringer

In an interview, Susanne Phillips, DNP, says health care institutions, agencies, councils, and clinics working with nurse practitioner leaders can create a standardized pathway to independent practice.

How Doctors in South LA County Increase Patients’ COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence

November 2, 2021

Aisling Carroll

Health Equity, Workforce

Uncertain patients can change their minds if they feel understood and hear the right emotion in a doctor's voice, according to physicians on the front lines.