Rural Health Telemedicine Dermatology Specialty Service

Project Goal: To advance the use of telemedicine technology to improve access and quality for dermatology specialty care services for the rural health community by June 2017.

Planned Parenthood as Primary Care Provider: Tracking Women's Health Needs

Project Goal: To develop an improved tracking system for delivery of high quality health care for women in their reproductive years, and have begun to use data to demonstrate and improve performance.

Achieving Alignment: Integrating Complex Care Programs Under a Population Management Strategy

Project Goal: To improve the quality of care for medically & socially complex patients receiving primary care through Alameda Health System by deploying a standardized model of complex care management as part of a cogent population management strategy.

Stanford Health Care’s Transformation for High Value Care: Primary Care 2.0

Project Goal: To transform Stanford Health Care’s primary care practices to promote the quadruple aim.

Medical Innovation Incubator

Project Goal: To build a physical clinical unit and a process for the incubator that would serve to bridge the gap between ideas and real-life county clinical environments.

A Model for Home Based Palliative Care

Project Goal: To increase access to ambulatory palliative care by establishing a financially sustainable service line within MemorialCare’s hospice program.

Efficient Delivery of Palliative Care Across a Safety Net System

Project Goal: To enhance access to supportive services to patients with serious illness requiring complex psychological needs by developing a palliative care resource directory.

Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network

Project Goal: To increase the capacity of the health care system to implement and sustain the most effective strategies to care for low income populations by catalyzing and disseminating high quality research on how to identify and address patients’ social needs in the context of clinical care.

Improving Coordination of Care for Medi-Cal Patients in the Sacramento Valley

Project Goal: To reduce avoidable utilization for Medi-Cal and Medicare patients without adequate connection to outpatient and specialty care by working with outside payors and medical groups.

Strengthening the Physician-Administrator Relationship to Improve Healthcare Value

Project Goal: To implement a program to provide the medical director-clinic manager dyad role clarity and improve communication to better execute daily management of the clinic.