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Trusted Relationships Are Essential for Californians with Multiple Health and Social Needs

Research on the connection between social needs and successful health outcomes identified dignity, cultural understanding, and genuine care as fundamental elements.

June 17, 2025

Feature Story

AI Technology Gives Doctors More Time for Patients and Family

The Abridge AI scribe is a game-changer for doctors, quickly handling taking medical notes in many languages. Doctors say it reduces burnout so they can focus on people instead of paperwork.

June 17, 2025

•Health Equity, Health Workforce, Technology and Innovation

Behind the Headline

‘I’m Really Scared’: Elderly and Disabled Californians With More Than $2,000 Could Lose Medi-Cal

Health advocates say the proposal to reinstate the Medi-Cal asset limit would keep people in poverty while Governor Gavin Newsom says it’s essential to cut rising costs.

June 5, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Behind the Headline

Californians Receiving In-Home Care Fear Medicaid Cuts Will End Their Independent Living

Like thousands of other Californians, Carol Crooks says her health has already deteriorated as she worries about losing the help she needs to live independently and remain out of a nursing home.

May 28, 2025

•Medi-Cal, Older Adults

Feature Story

Remembering Ian Morrison, Thought Leader and Former CHCF Board Chair

For four decades, he advised government, industry, and nonprofits about forecasting and planning with an emphasis on health care.

May 21, 2025

Expert Perspective

Medicaid Is One of America’s Strongest Economic Engines. Why Don’t We Treat It That Way?

When most people think of Medicaid, they think of a public health insurance program for low-income families, older adults, children, and people with disabilities. But that’s only part of the story.

May 6, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Behind the Headline

How Medi-Cal Is Tackling Homelessness Through Innovative Housing Solutions

Learn about the innovative housing solutions at the heart of Medi-Cal’s efforts to help Californians find permanent places to live.

May 2, 2025

•Homelessness

Behind the Headline

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North

The cuts would disrupt the fragile health care system in a congressional district covering a 27,000-square-mile, sparsely populated region.

May 1, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Behind the Headline

From the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, Rural Californians Fear Medi-Cal Cuts

Worried Medi-Cal providers and enrollees say cuts will disrupt hospitals and hurt families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities.

April 29, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Feature Story

Rural Health Programs Empower High School Students for Local Careers

Expanded career technical education is creating job opportunities for students and alleviating the health worker shortage in rural California.

April 23, 2025

•Health Workforce

Feature Story

Wider Circle Getting Big Results from Its Strategy to Ease Loneliness

It may seem like a social club, but Wider Circle is actually a targeted intervention to improve members’ mental and physical health.

April 17, 2025

•Older Adults

Behind the Headline

Counties Embrace New Approach to Getting Therapist Trainees Licensed

Motivo Health increases access to clinical supervision, smoothing the pathway to California licensure for needed mental health providers.

April 11, 2025

•Behavioral Health

Feature Story

What Providers and Administrators Need from Behavioral Health Data Reforms

Understanding health care data is a powerful tool that reveals who is and isn’t being served, highlights what is working, and determines where dollars go.

April 8, 2025

•Behavioral Health

Feature Story

Kern, Tulare Counties Brace for Crisis Caused by Possible Medi-Cal Cuts

“It is gut-wrenching, infuriating, and deeply alarming” to consider what will happen if Medi-Cal cuts go through, said a Bakersfield doctor.

April 3, 2025

•Medi-Cal

Feature Story

In Riverside County, Potential Medi-Cal Cuts Distress Constituents, Health Leaders

Big reductions in Medi-Cal spending would devastate patients, providers, and the region’s economy, local health leaders say.

March 28, 2025

•Medi-Cal

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Trusted Relationships Are Essential for Californians with Multiple Health and Social Needs

AI Technology Gives Doctors More Time for Patients and Family

‘I’m Really Scared’: Elderly and Disabled Californians With More Than $2,000 Could Lose Medi-Cal

Californians Receiving In-Home Care Fear Medicaid Cuts Will End Their Independent Living

Remembering Ian Morrison, Thought Leader and Former CHCF Board Chair

Medicaid Is One of America’s Strongest Economic Engines. Why Don’t We Treat It That Way?

How Medi-Cal Is Tackling Homelessness Through Innovative Housing Solutions

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North

From the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, Rural Californians Fear Medi-Cal Cuts

Rural Health Programs Empower High School Students for Local Careers

Wider Circle Getting Big Results from Its Strategy to Ease Loneliness

Counties Embrace New Approach to Getting Therapist Trainees Licensed

What Providers and Administrators Need from Behavioral Health Data Reforms

Kern, Tulare Counties Brace for Crisis Caused by Possible Medi-Cal Cuts

In Riverside County, Potential Medi-Cal Cuts Distress Constituents, Health Leaders

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