Health Care for All Californians

The California Health Care Foundation helps Californians with low incomes get the health care they need.

Our Priorities

Health Equity

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 More
Universal Coverage

Universal Coverage

California's commitment to expand Medi-Cal eligibility to all income-eligible adults offers an historic opportunity to achieve equity in health coverage over the next five years. However, much work remains to ensure that those who have coverage stay covered and those are are eligible for coverage are enrolled. Learn More
Workforce

Workforce

California faces major shortages of health workers and isn’t producing enough new workers to meet its population’s future needs. Meanwhile, California's health workforce does not match the diversity of the state. These workforce supply problems have a major impact on health access, quality, and equity. Learn More
CalAIM in Focus

CalAIM in Focus

CalAIM is a multiyear reform led by the California Department of Health Care Services to improve the health outcomes and the overall well-being of Medi-Cal enrollees. Explore CHCF’s collection of tools and resources aimed at helping organizations understand and implement CalAIM. Learn More

What's Trending

Explore the most popular publications, blogs, resources, and more from CHCF.

Resource

California’s Palliative Care Evolution: Celebrating Progress and Shaping the Future

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
This resource from Transforming Care Partners describes the key drivers of California's progress in palliative care and remaining opportunities to build on and accelerate this growth to meet future needs.
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Homelessness & Health Care

Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. Explore resources from CHCF that help health care, homeless services providers, government, and other systems work together so people are housed and healthy. CHCF will add to this resource center as new publications and tools become available.
CHCF Blog

Start-Up Spect Advances Health Equity With Mobile Diabetes Eye Exams

November 20, 2023
Brian Rinker
Health Equity, Investing in Innovation
Within a year of starting to use the system at a clinic in Richmond, California, the screening rate increased from 10% to 40% of the patients whose doctors recommended the exam.
CHCF Blog

Homelessness Summit for Journalists Emphasizes Need for Firsthand Sources

November 14, 2023
Erica Tricarico
Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health
The importance of elevating the voices of people with lived experience of homelessness and housing as a social determinant of health emerged as themes at a special meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Oakland.
RFP

Request for Proposals — Addressing Anti-Black Racism in California Health Systems

CHCF is accepting applications for quality improvement projects that address anti-Black racism in California’s health care delivery system. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
Publication

Key Takeaways from Medi-Cal Redetermination Data (June–August 2023)

November 2023
Amy Adams
Coverage Trends
State data from June through August 2023 show that Medi-Cal enrollees who are seniors or have a disability are being disenrolled at a disproportionately high rate.
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California Employer Health Benefits: Cost Burden on Workers Varies — 2023 Edition

April 2023
Gary Claxton and Matthew Rae, KFF, Anthony Damico
Coverage Trends
In 2022, 64% of firms in California offered health benefits to at least some of their employees. Premium costs are typically shared between employers and workers. This report presents data compiled from the 2022 KKF Employer Health Benefits Survey.
Publication

Telehealth Outcomes and Impact on Care Delivery: A Review of Evidence

November 2023
California Health Benefits Review Program, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF
This telehealth report distills key findings from over 80 studies from 2021 to 2022, catering to health care policymakers, payers, practitioners, and researchers interested in telehealth's effectiveness compared to in-person care.
Resource

CalAIM in Focus

CalAIM is a multiyear reform led by the California Department of Health Care Services to improve the health outcomes and the overall well-being of Medi-Cal enrollees. Explore CHCF’s collection of tools and resources aimed at helping organizations understand and implement CalAIM.
Publication

Medi-Cal Explained: 2024 Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans by County

June 2023
Ralph Silber
Medi-Cal
In 2024, many California counties will experience major changes around which Medi-Cal managed care plans operate there. This fact sheet organizes these changes alphabetically by county and by managed care plan for easy reference.

The CHCF Blog

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Listening to Black Californians - 2022

With Black Californians' life expectancy 6 years below the state average, the health care system is clearly failing them. Black Californians are doing all they can. The health care system needs to do the same.

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