Overcoming the Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage

Project Goal: To increase access to behavioral health services by: (1) expanding the behavioral health provider (BHP) network, (2) using virtual behavioral health (BH) visits, and (3) adding mobile health (m-health) tools through a partnership with a health service technology vendor that functions as the central hub to facilitate referrals and match patients to the right care pathway.

Reducing Staff Turnover to Improve Client Care

Project Goal: To improve provider retention rates in order to provide consistent care providers to clients and thus more consistent services to clients overall.

A Comprehensive Program to Provide Consistent Education to Pediatric Hospitals

Project Goal: To develop a comprehensive and consistent pediatric hospital based services (Pedi HBS) professional development program that supports development of core competencies in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, aligns local and regional performance improvement goals, and will give Pedi HBS physicians the tools to drive change, grow professionally, and be proactive in their own learning.

Improving Physicians Engagement at Riverside University Health System

Project Goal: To improve communication between Riverside University Health System (RUHS) administration and front-line physicians as a way to increase physician satisfaction.
 

Primary Care for the Mind: Improving Mental Health Access for Children

Project Goal: 1.To create a program to increase the knowledge and efficacy of UCSF Health Pediatric Network PCPs to diagnose and manage children with mild to moderate ADHD, Depression and Anxiety and to partner in a consultative model of care with Child Psychiatry. 2. Increase access for children with mental health conditions by having PCPs managed mild to moderate conditions and increasing capacity in psychiatry for moderate to severe conditions.

The Kaiser Permanente Technical Assistance Program

Project Goal: To formalize the existing technical assistance program and develop an organized, inclusive, structured application process by which the safety net is able to apply for technical assistance and grant dollars available to them.

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."

Transforming the RN Role in the Primary Care Setting

Project Goal: To develop an effective, proactive, relevant registered nurse workforce to serve as clinical leaders and team members in the primary care clinics of the San Francisco Health Network.

Volunteer Scribes

Project Goal: To reduce provider burnout by reducing the burden of data entry into the electronic medical record, allowing them more undivided time with the patients.