Category: News

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 […]

On February 8, the UCLA Center for Health Policy and Research released the final evaluation results for Whole Person Care (WPC), a pilot program led by public health care systems and their county partners, and the foundation for the state’s new CalAIM initiative. The findings highlight the value of a patient-centered approach to improve care […]

Happy new year and welcome to the SNI Forward! You may have noticed that we have a new look. Like many organizations over these
You may have noticed we have a new look at CAPH and SNI. Like many other organizations over these past few years, we have reflected

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