Shortage of Healthcare Professionals in California

“The health and well-being of Californians is compromised by both a significant health workforce shortage and a growing mismatch between population needs and available services.

Of particular concern:

Insufficient supply of health professionals and frontline workers, especially in primary care, prevention, behavioral health, and aging-related services
Imbalanced geographic distribution, with too few health workers in rural areas and inner-city urban areas, and an oversupply of some types of workers in urban areas
Limited cultural and language match between providers and populations
Barriers to fully utilizing health workers and technological innovations”

California Future Healthcare Workforce Commission, 2019

https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PDF-CaliforniaPhysiciansQRG2017.pdf