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)
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.
Getting to the Heart of Patient-Centered Health Home
Project Goal: To improve staff and patient experience of care by enhancing communication between medical assistants and providers.
Together We Grow: Developing a New Nurse Home Visiting Program
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.
Shoo the Flu – Vaccinate at School
Project Goal: To decrease the burden of influenza in Alameda County by improving vaccination rates in 5 – 11 year-old children.
Outpatient Specialty Care Improvements
Project Goal: To provide timely and quality outpatient specialty care services to all Olive View–UCLA Medical Center patients and improve our overall customer satisfaction.
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.