California Health Care Improvement Projects (CHIPs) are designed by CHCF Health Care Leadership Program participants with the goal of addressing meaningful challenges or opportunities in health care.
Browse CHIPs to leverage the work of CHCF alumni and find opportunities to collaborate in order to improve health for Californians.
California Health Care Improvement Projects (CHIP)
Integrating Oral Health into Pediatric Care for 0-2 Year Olds
Project Goal: To support Alameda Health System sites to offer preventive dental services where young children receive primary care.
Developing a Whole Person Health Score
Project Goal: To improve whole person care for individuals and populations by creating a universal "whole person health score" that aligns all stakeholders in a common vision and goal.
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.
Improving Adolescent Knowledge and Utilization of Reproductive Health Services Using a Youth-Driven “Literacy” Project
Project Goal: To improve knowledge and utilization of reproductive health services in our health center through education of adolescents in our service area using an intervention developed by youth.
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.
Improving Linkage to Care at HIV Diagnosis
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.
Community Pharmacy Pay-For-Performance Program
Project Goal: To demonstrate a cost-effective clinical model in the community pharmacy setting which promotes pharmacy quality and achieves measurable outcomes.
Impact of Standardized Community Education on Advance Care Planning
Project Goal: To increase interest and awareness on the importance of end of life (EOL) care planning by using standardized education programs (Being Mortal screening with a Conversation Café™ discussion and/or an Advance Care Planning workshop), measuring participants’ behaviors and attitudes...
Registry to Improve Depression Management
Project Goal: To provide patients with evidence-based treatments to treat their depression "to target": a 50% reduction in their baseline PHQ-9 score.
OBGYN Surgery Dollars Recovery Project
Project Goal: To improve overall efficiency of Surgery Department at Ventura County Medical Center.
eTouché – Moving Away from Referral Silos
Project Goal: To institute a seamless model for electronic eReferral at Stanford Health Care to eliminate extra visits and delays in care.
Reducing Readmissions with Improved Transitions of Care
Project Goal: To reduce overall cost of care by reducing hospital readmissions while improving healthcare outcomes.
Improving Patient Experience through Empanelment
Project Goal: To improve access and patient experience by implementing a system-wide, standardized approach to empanelment and panel size management.
Reducing Opiate Overdoses Through Safe Opiate Prescribing Support
Project Goal: To reduce opiate overdoses in Contra Costa County by 10% by the end of 2016.
The California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Project Goal: To increase the usability of publicly available data by launching an Open Data portal at the California Department of Public Health.
Decreasing Decline in Condition and Acute Hospitalization Through Effective Care Planning
Project Goal: To improve appropriate care & reduce decline in residents’ condition and acute hospitalization.
Strategic Guide for Free Clinics to Navigate Affordable Care Act
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.
Technology Coordinating Group Redesign – A Value Proposition
Project Goal: To improve the value of capital equipment purchases, especially new technology, in Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
Expanding Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care
Project Goal: To treat qualified opioid addicted patients with buprenorphine/naloxone combination while engaging them in primary care and screening.
Building a Business Intelligence and Data Governance Strategy
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.
Improving Latent Tuberculosis Treatment Rate
Project Goal: To reduce case rates of active tuberculosis in San Francisco.
Improving Employee Satisfaction at the Psychiatric Health Facility
Project Goal: To improve employee satisfaction which will result in a stable workforce with less turnover and increased competence.
Diabetes Care Program
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.
Medical-Legal Partnership for High Utilizer Patients in the Veterans Administration
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.
Improved Care Coordination to Reduce Length of Stay
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.
Improving Patient Satisfaction Outcomes through Better Hearing
Project Goal: To improve communication between providers and hearing-impaired adults in clinical settings.
Improving Continuity of Care Through Health Information Exchange
Project Goal: To improve care team access to patient information by implementing health information exchange.
Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training Course
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...
Integrative Pain Management: Transforming Care for Chronic Pain in the San Francisco Health Network
Project Goals: To improve the functional status and well-being of patients with chronic pain, and improve staff experience with managing chronic pain.
Optimizing Physician Use of the Electronic Health Record
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.
Empowering High Risk American Indian Diabetic Patients through Individualized Case Management
Project Goal: To improve glycemic control of American Indian Diabetic patients of our health center and thereby reducing associated mortality and morbidity.
Integrative Medicine and Safety Net Clinic Transformation
Project Goal: To become the provider of choice and improve patient experience by implementing an integrative medicine model of care at Hayward Wellness.
Telephone Appointments, an Access to Care Alternative
Project Goal: To provide an alternative for immediate, convenient, effective and, for now, free of charge access to medical care through telephone appointments.
Palliative Care Integration Into The Clinical Care of Advanced Congestive Heart Failure
Project Goal: To improve quality of care and outcomes for advanced heart failure patients by integration of Palliative Care specialty service into routine treatment.
Implementation of Teach Flu a Lesson – School-Based Vaccination Clinics
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.
On-Site Tuberculosis Clinic in Los Angeles Skid Row Homeless Shelter
Project Goal: To reduce and eliminate transmission of Tuberculosis in the Pathways to Home Homeless shelter by 2020.
High Value Care in the Safety Net: Implementation of Clinical Decision Support for High Cost Diagnostic Imaging in a Large Public Health System
Project Goal: To reduce inappropriate orders of high cost diagnostic and imaging tests performed in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services system.
“Safe Place For Youth”: Clinic for Homeless Youth
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.
Patient Focused Interventions: Reduce Readmissions
Project Goal: To develop an organized intervention in hospitalized patients with a moderate to high probability of readmission or early death.
Leveraging an Innovation Center to Build Capacity for Practice Transformation
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-...
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.
Improving Primary Care Provider Satisfaction
Project Goal: To increase Primary Care Providers (PCPs) satisfaction by addressing electronic health records (EHRs) issues, practice management, team leading and personal leadership.
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.
Specialty Consult Optimization: A Path Toward Improved Access
Project Goal: To reduce demand for specialty visits and improve access.
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.
Promoting Team Care and Support for High Risk High Cost Patients
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-...
A Community Health Strategy for the Safety Net
Project Goal: To support coordinated care of high-cost patients in more appropriate health care settings with centralized data analytics.
Development of a Patient Advisory Board in a Community Health Center
Project Goal: To develop and sustain a Patient Advisory Board by September of 2014.
Family Information Navigation Desk
Project Goal: To improve the health of families we serve by enhancing their connections to basic community resources through increased navigation services.
Designing a Learning Health Organization for Collective Impact using REACH
Project Goal: A high performing, learning health organization that successfully implements "collective impact" approaches to complex community health problems.