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

Joanne Spetz, Amy Quan

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.”

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.

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.

Empowering 32 More Future Health Care Leaders

October 5, 2021

Michelle Schneidermann

They join nearly 600 other clinicians who have participated in the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program over the last 20 years.

California Public Safety, Health Care Workers Confront Vaccination Mandates

October 4, 2021

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Holdouts push employers to the limit.

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.