Integrating Health Plan Quality Workforce in the local healthcare System: Kinetic Quality Improvement (QI) External Program

Project Goal: By 9/30/19, to demonstrate progress towards the quadruple aim by establishing a Kinetic QI external program through Practice Coaching, Learning Collaboratives, and developing a Practice Transformation Academy.

A Multifaced Approach to Improving Quality Measures in the San Diego Veteran's Affairs Community Living Center

Project Goal: To improve the Quality Measure (QM) score in the San Diego Veteran's Affairs Community Living Center by advocating for improved score calculus, which would better reflect the care provided. 

 

 

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. 

Integrated Intensive Care for the Critically Injured

Project Goal: To improve the quality of the intensive care provided to the critically injured trauma patients at Alameda Health Systems through an integrated and multidisciplinary comprehensive approach.

Improving Quality of Life for the Seriously Ill

Project Goal: To improve quality of life for seriously ill patients at UCSF’s Mt Zion campus.

Preparing for a Good Death Through Advanced Care Planning

Project Goal: To improve on staff and participant experience in advance care planning and to help participants plan for a "good death."

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.

NEURO-NET: A Continuum Partnership for Catastrophic Care

Project Goal: To improve the overall health and quality of life of individuals diagnosed with acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury, while also reducing lifetime medical costs through the provision of continuous, coordinated, rehabilitation through all levels of treatment.

Reducing ICU Length of Stay with Proactive Care Conferences

Project Goal: To improve end-of-life experience for patients who are expected to die in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), through systematic, multi-disciplinary support, and transition from aggressive ICU care to high-quality comfort measures in the appropriate setting.