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OAKLAND, CA – Today, the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) and our partner the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH) recognized six public health care systems with the Quality Leaders Awards (QLA) for their outstanding and innovative efforts to advance high quality equitable care. The 2022 QLA winners were announced at the […]

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
SNI is posting this on behalf of our partner organization the California Health Care Safety Net Institute. The evolution of Alameda

Across California, long lines of people who waited for COVID-19 tests mirrored those eager for food. Whether a retail clerk in Compton, an undocumented farmworker in Salinas, or someone experiencing homelessness in San Jose, these residents have had crushing and inseparable medical and non-medical needs throughout the pandemic. COVID-19 has disproportionally impacted them in every […]

The California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI), CAPH’s partner, recently launched a new initiative to advance public health care systems’ efforts to dismantle racism and improve health equity. As major safety net providers in communities of color, California’s public health care systems have long focused on health equity.

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
Disaster service workers from the County of Santa Clara check a client’s temperature. Photo credit: County of Santa Clara Health System.
A patient was on the phone with Dr. Atul Nakhasi, internist at Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Outpatient Center in Los
California’s 21 public health care systems have been serving on the front lines of the pandemic from the very beginning, caring for anyone