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The California Association of Resource Conservation Districts (CARCD) is dedicated to promoting sustainable land practices through a focus on key areas such as agriculture, forestry, fire resilience, and wildlife habitats. With a commitment to community engagement and collaboration, CARCD provides resources, events, and support for conservation efforts throughout the state. Through initiatives like the California Conservation Planning Partnership, CARCD fosters partnerships aimed at enhancing environmental stewardship and resilience in local ecosystems. Their annual events, competitions, and grant opportunities further contribute to the advancement of conservation goals across California. Generated from the website

The California Department of Managed Health Care helps consumers resolve problems with their health maintenance organizations and ensure a more stable managed health care system. The department's HMO Help Center assists consumers with health care issues. Since the department's inception in 2000, the Help Center has assisted approximately 700,000 Californians to resolve their HMO problems. The department's efforts for a healthier managed health care system include a variety of steps, such as ensuring HMO accountability through prevention and quality of care laws, develop and launch public education and awareness efforts, provide an annual report card on quality of care of the state's HMOs, ensure fiscal accountability for consumer premium dollars and co-payments throughout the HMO system and work to bring managed health care back to its roots of better preventive care. The California Department of Managed Health Care is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif.

HistoryOPA's statutory charge (as of July 1, 2014) is to coordinate, provide assistance to, and collect data from state health care consumer assistance call centers. The goal of these efforts is to better enable health care consumers to access the health care services for which they are eligible.SpecialtiesThe Office of the Patient Advocate's mission is to improve California health care quality and advocate for consumer interests by publicly reporting data for informed decision making. OPA is charged with producing: Health Care Quality Report Cards with clinical performance and patient experience data for the state's largest health plans and over 200 medical groups. These entities are responsible for providing health care services to more than 16 million Californians. Complaint Data Reports and Baseline Review of State Consumer Assistance Call Centers with data findings based on health care consumer complaint data and call center information submitted to OPA from the Department of Managed Health Care, Department of Insurance, Department of Health Care Services, and Covered California. Model Protocols for State Consumer Assistance Call Centers with recommendations for responding to and referring calls outside of a call center's jurisdiction.