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General Healthcare Resources
  • California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI)
    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
    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)
    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
    The mission of the Center for the Health Professions is to transform health care through workforce research and leadership development.
  • Commonwealth Fund
    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
    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
    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
    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)
    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
    IHA is a statewide multi-stakeholder leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of health care in California.
  • Modern Healthcare
    Modern Healthcare is the industry’s leading source of healthcare business and policy news, research and information.
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
    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.
Government Agencies and Resources
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    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
    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
    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
    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
    This website describes how California is implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
  • Medline Plus
    MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site with up-to-date information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
  • MedPAC
    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
    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
    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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