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General Healthcare Resources |
- California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI)
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CCHRI is a collaborative of health care purchasers, plans and providers, convened in 1993 by the Pacific Business Group on Health to help consumers and purchasers make informed health care purchasing decisions. |
- California Endowment
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The California Endowment is a private, statewide health foundation that was created in 1996 as a result of Blue Cross of California’s creation of WellPoint Health Networks, a for-profit corporation. The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. |
- California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)
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CHCF is a nonprofit grantmaking philanthropy based in Oakland, California. Founded in 1996, the staff of about 50 people issues around $40 million in grants each year from an endowment of approximately $700 million. CHCF does not participate in lobbying or fundraising. |
- Center for the Health Professions
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The mission of the Center for the Health Professions is to transform health care through workforce research and leadership development. |
- Commonwealth Fund
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The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. |
- Fierce Healthcare
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FierceHealthcare is a leading source of healthcare management news for healthcare industry executives to stay current on developments in healthcare reform, Medicare/Medicaid/CMS, healthcare providers, fraud, and more. |
- Health Affairs
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Health Affairs is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. The peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, a nonprofit international health education organization. Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in both domestic and international spheres. |
- HealthyCal
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HealthyCal.org is an independent, non-profit journalism project supported with initial funding from the California Endowment. The site’s mission is to inform Californians about public health and community health issues, to engage readers in an ongoing conversation about matters ranging from health care policy to land-use, transportation, environment, criminal justice and economic policy, and to show how all of these things are connected. |
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
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The KFF is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. |
- Integrated Healthcare Association
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IHA is a statewide multi-stakeholder leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of health care in California. |
- Modern Healthcare
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Modern Healthcare is the industry’s leading source of healthcare business and policy news, research and information. |
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Our goal is clear: To help our society transform itself for the better. |
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Government Agencies and Resources |
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. |
- California Department of Managed Health Care
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The DMHC, a first-in the-nation HMO consumer rights organization, helps California consumers resolve problems with their health plan and works to provide a more stable and financially solvent managed care system. |
- California Medical Board
- California Office of the Patient Advocate
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The Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA) is an independent state office established in July 2000 to represent the interests of health plan members and to promote transparency and quality health care by publishing an annual Quality of Care Report Card. |
- CDC Gateway to Health Communication & Social Marketing Practice
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CDC’s Gateway to communication practice and social marketing, where you can access many resources to help build your health communication or social marketing campaigns and programs. |
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Covered California
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This website describes how California is implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
- Medline Plus
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MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site with up-to-date information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. |
- MedPAC
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. |
- Office on Women’s Health
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The Office on Women’s Health (OWH), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), works to improve the health and sense of well-being of all U.S. women and girls. |
- Public Health Emergency (PHE)
- The Data Bank
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The Data Bank, consisting of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB), is a confidential information clearinghouse created by Congress to improve health care quality, protect the public, and reduce health care fraud and abuse in the U.S. |
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Job Search Sites |
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Professional Organizations |
- American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
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The American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 35,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations. |
- American Health Lawyers Association
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The American Health Lawyers Association is the nation’s largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field with more than 10,000 members. |
- California Association for Healthcare Quality
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The California Association for Healthcare Quality, established in 1977, is an organization whose primary purpose is to promote the quality of patient care. CAHQ is the only organization in California affiliated with the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and the Western States Alliance. |
- California Association of Medical Staff Services
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CAMSS is a statewide association established in 1971 for the education and professional development of individuals engaged in medical staff services activities. |
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
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CHIME is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. |
- Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
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HCCA is a forum for health care professionals involved in compliance serving all segments of the health care industry. |
- Health Care Executives of Southern California (HCE)
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HCE is the independent, local Southern California chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). |
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
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HFMA is the leading membership organization for healthcare financial management executives and leaders. Its more than 37,000 members value the Association’s role as a respected thought leader on top trends and issues facing the healthcare industry. |
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
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HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. |
- Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Association of Southern CA
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The Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Association of Southern California is an affiliate of the American Society for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing Development of the American Hospital Association (AHA). |
- Intelligent
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Southern California Graduate Programs in Healthcare |
- Cal State Fullerton, College of Health and Human Development
- Cal State Long Beach, Health Science Program
- Cal State Northridge, Department of Health Sciences
- Concordia University Master of Healthcare Administration
- Concordia University Master of Public Health
- Council on Education for Public Health
- Healthcare Administration EDU
- Healthcare Masters Degrees (online Masters programs)
- HealthAdministrationDegrees.com
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HealthAdministrationDegrees.com is a career and education resource providing information on health administration programs from over 400 schools across the country, including online and on-campus options. Find information on programs in a variety of healthcare specializations, including public health, healthcare management, long term care administration and more. Plus, learn more about the field from video interviews with leaders in healthcare administration. |
- Healthcare Administration
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HealthAdministrationDegrees.org is a tool for finding online MHA programs.
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- Discover Health Admin
- Loma Linda University School of Public Health
- UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business
- UCLA School of Public Health
- USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
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Southern California Organizations |
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Trade Associations |
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