Author: Gina Lenhart

Only several weeks into the year and many of our systems’ leaders have already come together to share strategies, learn from experts and each other, and explore lessons learned to truly better patients’ lives in 2024. Recently, 14 California public health care systems met to advance strategies that embed equity throughout their organizations as part […]

Patients’ social services needs met at Jurupa Valley Community Health Center with new integrated services model

LONG BEACH, CA – Today, the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) and our partner, the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH), celebrated the achievements of six public health care systems at the Quality Leaders Awards (QLA) for their efforts to advance high-quality, equitable care. The 2023 QLA winners were announced […]

Welcome to the latest edition of SNI Forward! We’ve got some exciting updates to share with you as we work toward the new year.
As we mark the conclusion of the first phase of SNI’s Racial Equity Community of Practice, we summarize our learnings in a series of briefs, videos, and reports.

Welcome to the SNI Forward! We’re thrilled to have you join us for another edition of the SNI Forward newsletter. We’re excited to share the latest from SNI, from new team members to groundbreaking collaborations. First, a big welcome to Natalie Sainz, our newest addition to the SNI team. Joining us in 2023 as a […]

Last month, equity leaders and teams from California public health care systems gathered again in Oakland, CA, to continue sharing ideas and testing new approaches to improve equitable health care that more people of color across the state can trust. This learning collaborative of 12 public health care systems, known as the Racial Equity […]

As we mark the conclusion of SNI’s Workforce Wellbeing programming, we celebrate the work initiated by California’s public health care systems to begin to address the unprecedented crisis in staff and physician burnout, in part brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we are excited to share what we’ve accomplished over the last year. Overview […]

Welcome back to the SNI Forward. With all that has been going on at SNI since the beginning of 2023, it feels like this

I’m thrilled to announce that SNI will welcome Dr. Ashrith Amarnath as our new Chief Health Officer next month. Dr. Amarnath comes to us from Covered California, where he served as Senior Medical Director. Prior to that, he was Patient Safety Officer at Sutter Valley Medical Foundation and the California Department of Health Care Services […]