Impacting Safety & Quality in Chronic Pain Management

Project Goal: To reduce the number of patients at risk for overdose by enhancing infrastructure that tracks and facilitates safe, appropriate opioid prescribing in three primary care clinics.

Buprenorphine Treatment Program for Chronic Pain Patients

Project Goal: To save and improve the lives of patients with chronic pain in Humboldt County by creating a formalized Buprenorphine treatment program.

Leveraging Physician – Coder Dyads to Improve Electronic Health Record Problem List Quality

Project Goal: To improve medical record quality and study project clinical benefit for our Medicare Advantage patients.

Building A Better Discharge Pathway

Project Goal: To improve hospital flow to better accommodate incoming admissions, eliminate upstream delays in the emergency department, and improve the experience for new patients waiting for beds by decreasing the time between discharge order to discharge and moving the median patient discharge time earlier in the day.

Creating Care Teams at the Women’s Community Clinic

Project Goal: To build a sustainable visit model that ensures high quality clinical care, increases visit numbers, enhances client access and clinic efficiency, and maintains client and staff satisfaction.

Supporting Primary Care Leaders to Thrive in an Era of Transformation

Project Goal: To support primary care leaders and managers in the San Francisco Health Network by enhancing well-being and vibrancy in four key areas: Mind, Body, Emotions, and Spirit.

Improving Cycle Times in Ear Nose and Throat Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Project Goal: To decrease cycle time (check-in to check-out) in Otolaryngology clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Integrating an Opioid Treatment Program with Primary Care

Project Goal: To increase care coordination and the number of doors for a patient with substance use disorder to access "whole person care" by creating and integrated system of care between and opioid treatment program and primary care setting. Increased access will improve utilization and treatment and decrease death and disability from opioid use disorder.

An Electronically Supported Colorectal Cancer Screening Program for the Safety Net

Project Goal: To decrease colorectal cancer (CRC) rates in patients evaluated at Department of Health Services medical centers by increasing CRC screening rates.

Impact of Standardized Community Education on Advance Care Planning

Project Goal: To increase interest and awareness on the importance of end of life (EOL) care planning by using standardized education programs (Being Mortal screening with a Conversation Café™ discussion and/or an Advance Care Planning workshop), measuring participants’ behaviors and attitudes on EOL care, and empowering them to discuss and document care wishes using appropriate legal instruments (e.g. Advance HealthCare Directive and/or Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form, with their loved ones and healthcare provider).