2009 Community Clinic Leadership and Workforce Studies

The Blue Shield of California Foundation and the Community Clinics Initiative, a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment, engaged a team of consultants from CompassPoint and BTW informing change to examine the leadership and workforce needs of California community clinics field, with the goal of providing a snapshot of the current leadership landscape and implications to stimulate discussion and action among clinic leaders, their nonprofit and for-profit partners, funders and other stakeholders in the community clinics field.

Three companion reports describe the findings of the 2009 Community Clinic Leadership and Workforce Studies. While the three studies are related, each one takes an in-depth look at a distinct group of staff within community clinics and clinic consortia. The studies and their subject groups are:

• 1 Mission Critical: The State of CEO Leadership in California Community Clinics, focused on current CEOs of clinics;
• 2 Taking the Pulse: The State of Medical Director Leadership in California Community Clinics, focused on current medical directors who hold the most senior clinical position within these settings; and
• 3 The Pipeline Promise: A Study of Emerging Leaders in California Community Clinics, focused on other staff who may become the future CEOs, medical directors or other senior leaders in clinics.

A fourth publication - Community Clinic Leadership in California: The State of the Field & Implications for the Future - highlights key findings from all three studies and considers the implications across the studies.