Month: November 2018

A new Social Medicine team at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) is shifting hospital culture to focus on healing the whole person and reshaping attitudes about what it means to help the vulnerable among us. Given the enormous challenges of living on the streets, many homeless individuals come to the emergency department (ED) for care because they have no where

The California Improvement Network (CIN) sat down with Amanda Clarke, Associate Director of Programs at the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) to discuss the challenges, lessons, and opportunities of the state’s Whole Person Care (WPC) pilots. The Q&A highlights how SNI is working with WPC sites to improve care for the state’s highest-needs patients by breaking data-sharin­g barriers,