Tackling Health Equity by Creating A Payor-Funded Community Doula Program for HealthNet

Project Goal: To reduce the disparities in birth outcomes for African American women in Los Angeles through a pilot program using community based doulas. 

Meeting Patients Where They Are: The CareMore @ Home Program

Project Goal: To engage complex patients in outpatient care in the field who have high rates of inappropriate use of emergency room and inpatient facilities, but low rates of outpatient clinic care.

Improving Patient Access Time For Urgent Referrals To Specialists

Project Goal: To improve specialty physician access time for urgent referrals to less than 4 days.

Integrating Quality & Safety Across Two Children’s Hospitals

Project Goal: To design a strategy to integrate the quality and safety programs at Benioff Children’s Hospital-San Francisco and Benioff Children’s Hospital-Oakland. 

Bite To Balance: A Novel Intervention in Pediatric Obesity Care

Project Goal: To reduce pediatric obesity by creating an engaging group care model that is sustainable and outperforms national outcome measures in patient engagement and medical benefit.

Leveraging an Innovation Center to Build Capacity for Practice Transformation

Project Goal: To maximize delivery of Triple Aim+1 across MemorialCare Medical Group offices by building capacity to implement the PCMH/Practice Transformation model to provide high quality health care at a reasonable cost and an enhanced patient experience leading to better health and well-being (physical, emotional, spiritual, and civic).

Autism Assessment Center of Excellence

Project Goal: To maximize the quality of life for Autism Spectrum Disorder children in the Inland Empire and their families by providing every child with access to a collaborative, organized, integrated and Trans-Disciplinary Assessment/Treatment resource for Autism.

Strategic Guide for Free Clinics to Navigate Affordable Care Act

Project Goal: To develop a strategic framework that will serve as a comprehensive tool for free clinics to apply to their organizations to ensure financial sustainability, patient population management and service delivery over the next three years.

Integrative Medicine and Safety Net Clinic Transformation

Project Goal: To become the provider of choice and improve patient experience by implementing an integrative medicine model of care at Hayward Wellness.

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.