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Workforce
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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External Resource

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.

Collection

The Big Shortage: The Future of California’s Health Workforce

Workforce, Telehealth, Behavioral Health
California's health workforce faces major shortages. The good news? There's no shortage of workable solutions.
Publication

California’s Physician Assistants: How Scope of Practice Laws Impact Care

September 2018
Timothy Bates, Joanne Spetz, Miranda Werts
Health Care Costs, Workforce
Physician assistants (PAs) provide high-quality care and are more likely to work in rural areas and with underserved populations than are physicians. This paper offers an overview of how PAs operate in California, and explores the research behind the evidence for practice expansion.
Collection

Expanding the Role of Nurse Practitioners

Workforce, Behavioral Health
In 2019, the California Future Health Workforce Commission released a plan to address the state’s shortages of primary care and behavioral health providers. One of the Commission’s top recommendations was to maximize the role of nurse practitioners (NPs) and to expand their practice authority. In doing so, they noted that California is 1 of 28 states — and the only western state — that restricts NPs by requiring them to work with physician oversight.
Publication

A Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California

February 2019
University of California, San Francisco, The Robert Graham Center
Workforce
This comprehensive overview describes the landscape of graduate medical education (GME) funding in California, including sources, amounts, and distribution across the state. This series also includes a report outlining recommendations for expanding GME and seven issue briefs covering key issues facing GME in this state.
Investment

Nomad Health

Investing in Innovation, Workforce
Nomad Health's online marketplace directly connects clinicians and medical employers, making recruiting and hiring less expensive and more efficient and transparent.
Publication

California’s Current and Future Behavioral Health Workforce

February 2018
Janet Coffman, Timothy Bates, Igor Geyn, Joanne Spetz
Behavioral Health, Workforce
This report synthesizes data about California’s behavioral health workforce. California needs to make substantial investments to meet future demand for behavioral health professionals.
Publication

2017 Edition — California Physicians

August 2017
Janet Coffman, Igor Geyn, Margaret Fix
Workforce
California's physician population has grown over the past 20 years. This Almanac report describes the landscape for physician services in 2015.
Publication

California Maps: How Many Primary Care and Specialist Physicians Are in Your County?

August 2017
Robbin Gaines
Workforce
Use these interactive maps of California to see how many primary care physicians and specialists are practicing in your county.
Publication

2017 Edition — California Nurses

August 2017
Timothy Bates, Joanne Spetz
Workforce
Nursing is the single largest health profession in the state. These quick reference guides look at supply, demographics, education, distribution, and pay for registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses.
Publication

2017 Edition — California’s Health Care Workforce

August 2017
Timothy Bates
Workforce
California's health care industry employed more than 1.4 million people in 2015. Five Almanac quick reference guides provide data on wages, education, and workplaces for selected health professions.
CHCF Blog

Future Health Commission to Lay Groundwork for a Modern Health Workforce

August 23, 2017
Sandra R. Hernández
Workforce
CHCF wants a health care system that works for all Californians, so we're proud to support the California Future Health Workforce Commission.
CHCF Blog

The Big Shortage: How Technology Can Help Solve America’s Health Workforce Problem

November 7, 2017
Sandra R. Hernández
Telehealth, Workforce
CHCF President and CEO Sandra Hernández gave the keynote address at the annual Health 2.0 Conference on the role of technology in solving America's health workforce challenges. This article is adapted from that talk.
CHCF Blog

California’s Community Paramedicine Program Improves Care Delivery

December 15, 2017
Howard Backer
Workforce
How does community paramedicine work in California? The director of the California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) explains a series of pilot programs and how the state's residents can get the most benefit from the program.
CHCF Blog

Community Paramedicine Delivers Better Care at Lower Cost

March 2, 2017
Janet Coffman
Workforce
The independent evaluator of California's community paramedicine pilot projects explains the findings of this highly anticipated first report.
CHCF Blog

How California Community Paramedicine Became a Priority for CHCF

October 19, 2016
Sandra Shewry
Workforce
The project manager of community paramedicine pilot projects and CHCF's vice president for external engagement explain how this new approach reduces demand for emergency care and hospital admissions.
CHCF Blog

Designer of Paramedicine Pilot Says Safety Is Job One

September 14, 2017
Avram Goldstein
Behavioral Health, Workforce
The architect of California's most successful community paramedicine pilot project explains why these projects should be permitted all over the state.
CHCF Blog

Travel Ban Highlights Importance of Immigrant Physicians to California Health Care

February 9, 2017
Avram Goldstein
Workforce
In California, hundreds — possibly thousands — of doctors could be affected by immigration bans imposed by President Donald Trump.
January 23, 2017

Sacramento Briefing — Community Paramedicine in California

Workforce
January 23, 2017
Community paramedicine (CP) is an innovative and evolving model of community-based health care designed to provide more effective and efficient services. Hear about California's CP pilot program.
Publication

Physician Participation in Medi-Cal: Is Supply Meeting Demand?

June 2017
Janet Coffman, Margaret Fix
Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Workforce
Enrollment in Medi-Cal surged between 2013 and 2015. This report looks at physician participation in Medi-Cal and implications for access to care.
External Resource

California Future Health Workforce Commission

Top leaders from across the state are working together to close the gap between the health workforce we have and the workforce we need.

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