California Health Care Improvement Projects (CHIPs)

Project Goal: To enroll, house, and track healthcare costs for 20 people who are homeless and high utilizers of emergency healthcare.

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.

Project Goal: To provide a California Rural Indian Health Board based telepsychiatry service to rural Native American communities which more effectively achieves Triple Aim goals of providing excellent care and enhanced patient experience due to provider cultural fluency while improving access…

Project Goal: To improve linkage-to-care for persons newly diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in Alameda County as part of a treatment-as-prevention strategy.

Project Goal: To increase care coordination and the number of doors for a patient with substance use disorder to access "whole person care" by creating and integrated system of care between and opioid treatment program and primary care setting. Increased access will improve utilization and…

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.

Project Goal: To save and improve the lives of patients with chronic pain in Humboldt County by creating a formalized Buprenorphine treatment program.

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.

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

Project Goal: To provide patients with evidence-based treatments to treat their depression "to target": a 50% reduction in their baseline PHQ-9 score.

Project Goal: To increase the usability of publicly available data by launching an Open Data portal at the California Department of Public Health.

Project Goal: To reduce case rates of active tuberculosis in San Francisco.

Project Goal: To improve value of care and outcomes for high utilizer, high-need homeless Veterans in the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System through a Medical-Legal Partnership.

Project Goal: To improve glycemic control of American Indian Diabetic patients of our health center and thereby reducing associated mortality and morbidity.

Project Goal: To reduce inappropriate orders of high cost diagnostic and imaging tests performed in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services system.

Project Goal: To reduce opiate overdoses in Contra Costa County by 10% by the end of 2016.

Project Goal: To create a business intelligence strategy with a data governance ecosystem that is sustainable, accountable, and foundational to building a data-driven organization.

Project Goal: To provide participants the understanding and tools necessary to conduct state-of-the-art clinical practice improvement projects, use quality improvement methods to manage and integrate non-clinical processes, implement quality improvement programs, and conduct internal quality…

Project Goal: To improve quality of care and outcomes for advanced heart failure patients by integration of Palliative Care specialty service into routine treatment.

Project Goal: To institute a seamless model for electronic eReferral at Stanford Health Care to eliminate extra visits and delays in care.

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.

Project Goal: To improve employee satisfaction which will result in a stable workforce with less turnover and increased competence.

Project Goal: To improve care team access to patient information by implementing health information exchange.

Project Goal: To provide an alternative for immediate, convenient, effective and, for now, free of charge access to medical care through telephone appointments.

Project Goal: To improve overall efficiency of Surgery Department at Ventura County Medical Center.

Project Goal: To improve appropriate care & reduce decline in residents’ condition and acute hospitalization.

Project Goal: To reduce the adjusted length of stay (LOS) to below the national average by improving care coordination, bringing the hospital into alignment with requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, without increasing the readmission rate.

Project Goal: To develop a learning ecosystem to improve physicians’ achievement and maintenance of electronic health record (EHR) skill competency in a sustainable way and improve physician satisfaction with the EHR support we deliver to them.

Project Goal: To reduce and eliminate transmission of Tuberculosis in the Pathways to Home Homeless shelter by 2020.

Project Goal: To improve access and patient experience by implementing a system-wide, standardized approach to empanelment and panel size management.

Project Goal: To treat qualified opioid addicted patients with buprenorphine/naloxone combination while engaging them in primary care and screening.

Project Goal: To study and better understand cost-effective interventions leading to improved outcomes for a sub-group of Riverside Family Physicians' diabetics from May 2014 to May 2015.

Project Goals: To improve the functional status and well-being of patients with chronic pain, and improve staff experience with managing chronic pain.

Project Goal: To increase the number of vaccinated children in southland elementary schools, thus creating herd immunity in a vulnerable population and closing health disparity gaps in our membership and/or communities in which we live and serve.

Project Goal: To reduce overall cost of care by reducing hospital readmissions while improving healthcare outcomes.

Project Goal: To improve the value of capital equipment purchases, especially new technology, in Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

Project Goal: To improve communication between providers and hearing-impaired adults in clinical settings.

Project Goal: To help 50% of physician assistants practicing in primary care offices in California demonstrate a clear understanding of recommended preventive services as defined by post-testing after training by the end of 2015.

Project Goal: To improve the health status of homeless youth in Los Angeles who currently do not access medical services, by improving access to care and creating a positive patient experience for this population.

Project Goal: To reduce demand for specialty visits and improve access.

Project Goal: To improve the health of families we serve by enhancing their connections to basic community resources through increased navigation services.

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.

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.

Project Goal: To improve blood pressure control and decrease adverse health outcomes for One Medical Group patients with hypertension.

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.

Project Goal: To improve health, optimize child development, and strengthen resilience and self-sufficiency for high-risk families by providing public health nurse home visiting.

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.

Project Goal: To improve patient experience and quality of care in more than one clinic within San Mateo Medical Center using Lean principles.

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-…

Project Goal: To develop, deliver and evaluate SCC clinical team training workshops which enable practice changes promoting patient centered team care for patients with chronic health conditions. Effective clinical teams will recapture the joy of practice and be better able to provide patient-…