ISSUE BRIEF – Meeting the Demand for Health Top Priorities, Challenges, and Proposed Actions for the Private Sector to Support the Workforce California Needs
FACT SHEET – How Mental Health Services Act Funds Could be Used to Alleviate California’s Growing Shortage of Psychiatrists
References
- For information on supply, demand, and distribution of providers and training programs, see: Coffman, et al. California’s Current and Future Behavioral Health Workforce. February 2018.
- For information on related Mental Health Services Act funding, see: 2020-2025 Mental Health Services Act Workforce Education and Training Five-Year Plan.
- For information on counties sanctioned by the Department of Health Care Services, see: “California May Withhold Millions of Dollars From Counties For Being Short On Mental Health Providers” by Sammy Caiola, Capital Public Radio.
- For a summary of related 2019-2020 California Budget investments, see: Coffman, et al. Leveraging the State Budget to Implement California Future Health Workforce Commission Recommendations. October 2019.
FACT SHEET – How California Could Build a Robust, Diverse Health Workforce by Creating a New Statewide Health Career Opportunity Program
References
- For information on California’s projected 2030 demographics, see: Sarah Bohn et al., California’s Future, Public Policy Institute of California, January 1, 2018.
- For information on Californians living in Health Professional Shortage Areas, see: “Designated Health Professional Shortage Areas Statistics,” Health Resources and Services Administration, last modified September 30, 2018.
- For information on supply, demand, and distribution of providers and training programs, see: Coffman, et al. California’s Current and Future Behavioral Health Workforce. February 2018.
- For information on projected shortages of home care workers, see: Laurel Beck and Hans Johnson, “Planning for California’s Growing Senior Population,” Public Policy Inst. of California, August 2015.
- For information on California State University graduation rates, see: The California State University 2018 Fact Book
FACT SHEET – A New Approach to Growing the Workforce Pipeline into Community Health Centers: Community-Oriented Regional Education in Primary Care (CORE-PC)
References
- For information on supply, demand, and distribution of providers and training programs, see: Coffman, et al. California’s Current and Future Behavioral Health Workforce. February 2018.
- For information on the number, status, and needs of CHCs, see: California Primary Care Association. (in press). Workforce Development Survey 2019 Report; California Primary Care Association. (in press). Community Health Center 2019/2020 Profile; Countyhealthrankings.org.
- For information on rural student practice preferences, see: MacDowell, Martin, DrPH., Glasser, Michael, PhD; Hunsaker, Matthew, MD, A Decade of Rural Physician Workforce Outcomes for the Rockford Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program, December 2013; Scott A. Shipman, Andrea Wendling, Karen C. Jones, et al. The Decline In Rural Medical Students: A Growing Gap In Geographic Diversity Threatens The Rural Physician Workforce, December 2019; Chen C, Petterson S, Phillips RL, Mullan F, Bazemore A, O’Donnell SD, Toward graduate medical education (GME) accountability: measuring the outcomes of GME institutions, September 2013.
- For information on potential impact, see: Impact analysis by Healthforce Center at UCSF in California Future Health Workforce Commission final report, Meeting the Demand for Health, February 2019.
- For information on California physician and UC Davis School of Medicine population diversity, see: UC Davis Center for a Diverse Healthcare Workforce.