Capacity building and learning collaboratives

People with low incomes and from racial/ethnic minority groups regularly face barriers to accessing primary care and behavioral health care. These obstacles include limited provider networks, challenges finding language-concordant providers, and challenges accessing the technology needed to take advantage of telehealth.

CCHE recently worked with the California Health Care Foundation to produce this report: Telehealth Evolution in California Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. It traces telehealth’s history in California and lays out a roadmap for continued progress. To create the report, our team analyzed dozens of research studies and interviewed key players in California. California has made significant strides in telehealth since the COVID-19 pandemic, and patients generally report high satisfaction with digital or hybrid care. While telehealth has advanced health equity, disparities remain for Medicaid patients, speakers of languages other than English speakers, and rural residents. Our roadmap offers recommendations for policymakers, health system leaders, providers, health plans, and researchers to continue to center equitable access to care in their telehealth efforts.

CCHE is wrapping up the evaluation of Well Connected Communities (WCC), a seven-year, national health equity and well-being initiative of America’s Cooperative Extension System funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. WCC used the power of collective action and youth and adult voice to identify and address health inequities. 

Once considered an industry niche, telehealth entered the mainstream during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According the CDC, approximately 61% of adults have reported experiencing at least one type of adverse childhood experience (ACE) during their childhood, and nearly 1 in 6 reported experience with four or more.

How the PHASE program improved care for people at risk of cardiovascular disease.