Author: Gina Lenhart

Millions of people in California, many of whom face financial hardships and complex health issues, have been safeguarded, supported, and cared for by those working at public health care systems since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Our blog series, funded by the California Health Care Foundation, captures the remarkable stories of nurses, doctors, medical assistants, and […]

Since the pandemic began, residents of Kern County have landed inside Kern Medical in non-stop numbers. And it’s not just due
Welcome to the SNI Forward, our quarterly snapshot of the transformation progress at California’s public health care systems and the work of the California
Disaster service workers from the County of Santa Clara check a client’s temperature. Photo credit: County of Santa Clara Health System.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OAKLAND – Today, the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) and our partner the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH) recognized seven public health care systems with the Quality Leaders Awards (QLA) for their outstanding and innovative efforts to advance high quality equitable care. The 2021 QLA winners […]

Welcome to the final SNI Forward of 2021 – our quarterly snapshot of the transformation progress at California’s public health care systems and the
A patient was on the phone with Dr. Atul Nakhasi, internist at Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Outpatient Center in Los
When Dr. Susan Ehrlich took over as CEO at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) in 2016 after leading San Mateo
California’s 21 public health care systems have been serving on the front lines of the pandemic from the very beginning, caring for anyone
A “co-conspirator” in Merced County Merced County’s leading cause of death in 2020 was the coronavirus, tragically exemplifying just how hard