CHCF Publishes 2026 California Community Clinics Almanac — the Year's Canonical Safety-Net Benchmark

The California Health Care Foundation released its 2026 California Community Clinics Almanac on May 28 — the authoritative annual dataset on the state's community health center sector. It documents that California's community health centers served roughly 5.8 million patients in 2024, with Medi-Cal the dominant payer, and tracks centers' growing reliance on patient-service revenue as the federal grant share of total revenue continues to shrink.

For FQHC CFOs and boards, this is the benchmark report that quantifies why H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts and the State-Only (UIS) Medi-Cal freeze are existential: a sector whose revenue is overwhelmingly Medi-Cal-dependent has little cushion when Medi-Cal coverage and reimbursement contract.

Expect this Almanac to be cited in board decks, grant applications, and Sacramento advocacy testimony all year.