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HCAI launches a statewide primary-care snapshot to track investment, workforce and equity
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Summary
HCAI introduced the Health of Primary Care in California snapshot project: a phased effort to publish a brief (early Jan 2026), a static report (fall 2026) and an interactive dashboard (2027) to track five domains—investment, workforce, access, quality and equity—using existing HCAI and external data.
HCAI staff announced a multi-year project to develop a Health of Primary Care in California snapshot that will track statewide and regional performance across five domains: investment, workforce, access, quality and equity.
"The purpose of HCAI's Primary Care Snapshot is several fold," Miranda Wirtz, senior primary care specialist at HCAI, told the work group, citing the NASEM and Milbank primary-care scorecard work as models. Wirtz said HCAI will analyze and compile existing HCAI and external data (administrative, survey and professional-training sources) rather than collect new data, and will prioritize California-relevant, trackable indicators for inclusion.
HCAI plans a phased product rollout: an HCAI brief announcing the snapshot and outlining approach (early January 2026), a static snapshot report (fall 2026), and a full interactive dashboard with accompanying report in 2027; HCAI plans annual updates beginning in 2028. The snapshot team includes HCAI offices of health information, workforce development, health-care affordability and the patient advocate; Friedman HealthCare and Mathematica (Diane Rittenhouse) are listed as technical partners, and CHCF will support communications.
Work group members urged detailed disaggregation and measures to capture meaningful continuity and capacity. Covered California's Barb Rubio recommended measuring longitudinal patient-provider relationships to capture continuity of care and downstream quality effects; others recommended separating Medi-Cal by eligibility groups and Kaiser vs. non-Kaiser markets and tracking practice-level primary-care activity rather than credential counts.
Wirtz said the project will recruit a stakeholder work group, leverage existing advisory bodies, and use key-informant interviews and focused engagement to refine indicator choice. HCAI invited the work group to provide input and said it will post the initial brief on the HCAI website and distribute it via HCAI and OCA/HCAI listservs and social channels.
Next steps: HCAI will publish the brief in early January 2026, solicit stakeholder feedback through the new work group and advisory channels, and continue developing the indicators inventory for the static and interactive snapshots.
