“Funding Community Health Workers in California: Using Medi-Cal to Transform Healthcare Delivery” details the funding mechanisms available to reimburse Community Health Workers (CHWs) in California’s Medi-Cal system. This report examines other states that have...
We are living in unprecedented times during a global pandemic. In addition to navigating to a new “normal,” we are experiencing a burden on our healthcare systems like we’ve never experienced before. Every level of government has put into place many improved and even...
I’m realizing more often lately that there are many things in today’s digital world that I take for granted. Access to the internet is now considered as much a basic necessity as other utilities, and with shelter in place guidelines, people’s reliance on technology is...
Ten years ago, today I witnessed the passing of the biggest piece of legislation that I have ever been a part of in my career as a public health advocate: the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While by no means a perfect bill, it did set off a decade of...
by Amanda M. Beacom, PhD How can Community Health Councils (CHC) more effectively promote collaboration in its community coalitions? That was the question guiding a group of CHC staff and USC doctoral students who began studying the development of CHC California...
Community Health Councils (CHC), along with our partners at the California Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPHEN) and Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHA) have submitted a budget request for $30 million per year, for two years, from the State General Fund, to be matched...
On November 14, 2018, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a list of changes to the Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care rule that was finalized in 2016. CHC submitted a comment letter in opposition to the proposed changes focusing on three...
On October 10th, 2018 the comment period for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s proposed “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” rule came to a close. During the nearly 60-day comment period that started on October 10th over 200,000 letters were submitted...
Public Charge is a term used by immigration officials to refer to people who rely on government assistance to primarily support their cost of day-to-day living. Currently, officials look at a variety of factors in deciding whether or not a person is likely to become a...
Community Health Councils (CHC) partnered with the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) and the California Primary Care Association (CPCA) to host the 2018 Outreach and Enrollment Summit in Los Angeles on May 4th. Over 80 health advocates...