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.

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.

Reducing Patient Harm by Increasing Physician Integration

Project Goal: To design and implement a replicable and innovative graduate medical education curriculum which improves physician engagement and integration in patient safety reporting while reducing serious patient harm events.

Building Specialty Care Leadership Teams in a Safety-Net Hospital System

Project Goal: To develop a standardized Quality Improvement (QI) curriculum and implement a structured QI learning academy. The project will identify and improve specialty care management teamwork skills, refine leadership abilities of the management team, provide support to specialty care teams to develop/implement a QI project, and develop a structured coaching program for the QI learning academy.

Nursing Led Care Coordination Optimization

Project Goal: To improve employee engagement within the care coordination department and reduce average length of stay through coordinated team efforts to reduce inefficiencies.

Project Quest: Improving Quality of Life in Epilepsy through Supporting Therapies

Project Goal: To improve receipt of whole person wrap-around services and therefore the quality of life of people with epilepsy in western Los Angeles county by increasing knowledge of epilepsy, referrals to Westside Regional Center, and offer of epilepsy-specific services.

IMPACT: A Palliative Care Education Initiative for Acute Care Bedside Nurses

Project Goal: To equip bedside nurses on acute care units at UCSF Medical Center with communication tools to lead palliative care communication.

The Expected Practice: Standardizing Specialty Consultation

Project Goal: To increase utilization of existing clinical pathways (expected practices) by primary care physicians through improved integration into daily workflow.

Improved Pediatric Provider Job Satisfaction Through Standardized Group Medical Visits

Project Goal: To reduce provider burnout by increasing job satisfaction in the delivery patient care and education for overweight/obesity.