Welcome!

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Primary Care Initiative (PCI)/Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) newsletter! Our goal is to provide useful and interesting information regarding the PCI and HWPP. We hope these quarterly updates on data collection, policy, events, and other news will help you feel more connected to the work at UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) office. Read more...

Patient data update (Quarter 7)

Thanks to hard work by all—HWPP Research Coordinators, APCs, trainers, and clinic staff—we have doubled our patient enrollment since January 2009, and the percentage of patients who agree to be seen by an APC currently stands at 77%. Read excerpts from patient surveys and more on enrollment...

Policy update

In recent months, the HWPP mechanism under which our project operates has received attention from the California legislature. After writing an inaccurate article about HWPP, Senator Sam Aanestad (R–Grass Valley) introduced SB 761, which would have severely limited the HWPP mechanism. Learn more about the bill and its impact on the HWPP project...

OSHPD update

In January 2009, the Primary Care Initiative submitted its annual renewal application to California’s Health and Human Services Agency Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) Health Workforce Pilot Project Program. This would extend HWPP at ANSIRH for a fourth year, through March 31, 2010. Get an update on the progress of HWPP’s 2009-2010 waiver renewal...

Events and continuing education

The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) is a great source of continuing education—from their free webinar recordings on a variety of topics to their e-alerts on professional education opportunities and other sources of information. Read more about membership in professional organizations...

In addition, the Abortion Access Project, ANSIRH, and NAF are about to release a new toolkit providing information on how to advance your scope of practice and document your skills and competencies as you develop your abortion practice. Learn more...

Shauna Nyborg