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Welcome to "What's New at CCI?" — the bi-weekly newsletter from the Center for Care Innovations (CCI) where you can take in the latest news, updates, and ideas on health care x innovation x resilience and more! Get notified of future editions, delivered straight to you on your LinkedIn feed.

Are you our new?Program Director?

CCI is looking for a enterprising leader?help us drive toward our vision that “everyone has fair, just, and inclusive opportunities to be healthy.” It's a unique opportunity to join a collaborative team that is beginning to implement a strategic plan focused on building resilient partnerships and supporting digital transformation throughout the health care ecosystem.

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Confronting Health Care Inequities with CHEO Power

California may be the world's fifth largest economy, but our state has a long way to go to wipe out inequities in health care.?

This year a new report by Aurrera Health Group found glaring disparities in health care for Black and Latinos in California, one of the country's most multicultural states. Among their findings: Black Californians had the lowest life expectancy (74.6 years) of all ethnicities, and Black mothers experienced the highest maternal mortality. One in 10 Latinos reported they were uninsured, nearly one in five reported they had no regular place of care, and one in four had an income below the poverty level.?

To help address these gaping disparities, California's CalAIM program requires that all?Medi-Cal managed care plans include a "chief health equity officer," or CHEO.

CCI is honored to have been invited to support the?CHEO Network, a peer initiative across California that has been in the works for some time. We're collaborating with the?Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the California Health Care Foundation to help CHEOs address long-standing inequities in California health care.

“Our goals are to build a strong community of peers among CHEOs and support their success,“ says CCI Program Coordinator Nickita Gupta, MPH . “This network is responsive to the emerging needs and priorities of the CHEOs; a space to support CHEOs in multiple ways —?a laboratory to test new ideas, a sandbox to ideate, a sounding board, or simply a space to connect with one another. We look forward to?building a community of peers that CHEOs can lean on, now and in the future.”

Check Out CCI's New Job Opening: Program Director

As a member of the CCI's Program Leadership Team, the?Program Director will (1) oversee current program implementation, (2) proactively identify new opportunities to advance CCI’s mission, (3) create and manage strategic relationships with partners, (4) mentor, train, and develop staff, and (5) guide large scale adoption and adaptation of solutions that have been developed in programs.?

We’ll?be accepting applications until July 24.?Apply Today!

Get Your Ticket: Safety Net Innovation Summit

The reenergized?Safety Net Innovation Summit?returns in September 2024 to?gather social impact transformers like you?who are serving historically underinvested and marginalized communities?— providers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, funders, payers, and more.

We’ll be equipping you with tools, collaboration opportunities, and promising practices to improve our communities, health, and well-being.?Register Now!

?? READING:?'This Place Saved My Life.' Medically Frail Unhoused People Find Home in New Care Model.?This eloquent, inspiring story, published by the California Health Care Foundation, spotlights a program founded and run by two nurse practitioners who do not want to see any people with cancer and other life-threatening disabilities forced to live in a tent.

?? SHARING:??The Doctor Will Ask About Your Gun Now. More physicians are asking about gun safety as part of their routine visit, reports?The Atlantic.

?? WATCHING:?Faces of Medicine.?This documentary follows the paths of Black female physicians in the United States. The series, a project of the non-profit art service organization Fractured Atlas, explains that "the hope is that any Black girl or woman can find themselves in our stories and know what is possible, [and] all viewers will gain a better appreciation of what doctors of color experience."

?? LISTENING:?The Doctor is Out. This?podcast explores the journeys of healthcare providers "who have engaged in the world beyond medicine."?

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