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Transportation challenges create major barriers for kidney failure patients who receive hemodialysis at a clinic. These disruptions also heavily impact clinic staff. New research from the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research calls for more coordination between health and transportation systems.

UC Davis, the city of Sacramento, and Wexford Science & Technology released the inaugural Aggie Square Community Benefits Partnership Agreement Annual Progress Report, highlighting early outcomes and investments tied to the development of the Aggie Square innovation district. The Center for Healthcare Policy and Research was among the first tenants at Aggie Square and hosted numerous public-facing events at the district during its first year of operations. 

A new paper in BMC Proceedings highlights consensus recommendations from a 2024 conference on strengthening the U.S. primary care system. Center for Healthcare Policy and Research faculty and staff led efforts to create seven priority actions to improve workforce development, payment models, and research investment. The paper follows a February 2026 webinar, sponsored by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), featuring primary care experts discussing how they’re working to improve primary care.

A School of Nursing doctoral student’s experience with the T32 ReACH program reveals how improving health begins with people and place. The ReACH program is led by Center for Healthcare Policy and Research Director Courtney Lyles and faculty affiliate Leigh Ann Simmons.

A Center for Healthcare Policy and Research initiative to improve health and well-being among heart failure patients is showing success. The novel “whole health” program helping patients manage weight and improve their health and well-being was highlighted by U.S. News & World Report.

What does it mean to design a study with patients, not just for them, and why does that shift matter for kidney care outcomes? Na’amah Razon and Bethney Bonilla from the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research answer these questions and more in a podcast with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). 

UC Davis family and community medicine doctor Joshua Fenton answers the top 10 questions people ask about low back pain. He led a Center for Healthcare Policy and Research study testing communication strategies to reduce low-value, lower back (lumbar) spinal imaging.