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About CAPH
Our Mission
CAPH, a non-profit trade organization representing California's public hospitals and health systems since 1983, works to strengthen the capacity of its members to advance community health, ensure access to comprehensive, high-quality, culturally sensitive health care services for all Californians and educate the next generation of health care professionals. Our passionate belief that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to enjoy good health—regardless of their insurance status, immigration status or ability to pay—drives our policy and advocacy agenda.
Our Members
CAPH represents 20 hospitals, health care systems and academic medical centers in 16 counties—including each of the 15 most populated counties—throughout California. CAPH members share a mission and mandate to provide care to all residents, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. Among the members of CAPH are county-owned and operated facilities and University of California medical centers. As teaching hospitals, they also train 45% of the new doctors in the state.
About Safety Net Providers
A safety net provider is a hospital, academic medical center, community-based health center or other entity dedicated to assure the accessibility of cost-effective, high quality and culturally appropriate health care services for low-income and uninsured populations, beyond those emergency and stabilization services required by law. These providers also ensure the availability of essential services, such as emergency, trauma and burn care, critical to the health and well-being of the public.
How Can CAPH Help You?
The intricacies of public health care policy and legislation are often complex and confusing. CAPH is pleased to serve as a resource for information and assistance on a variety of state and federal health care policy issues. Our highly trained professional staff is available to respond to inquiries from legislators and their staffs, administration officials, members of the media, healthcare stakeholders and the general public on a wide range of issues, especially those affecting California 's low-income and uninsured populations. Key areas of expertise include:
- Public hospitals
- Primary care & prevention
- Tertiary services
- Trauma systems
- Public & community health
- Graduate medical education (GME)
- Public-private partnerships
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- The uninsured
- The safety net
- Medically indigent
- Vulnerable populations
- Medi-Cal
- Medi-Cal managed care
- Healthy Families
- Financing health care
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- Charity care
- Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) funding program
- State financial data
- Interpreter Services
- Culturally Competent Care
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