California Health Care Improvement Projects (CHIPs)
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.
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Improving the Value of Care for Comprehensive Joint Replacement: Implementing Bundled Payments in San Francisco Health Network
Reena GuptaProject Goal: To improve the value of care provided for hip and knee joint replacements through increased coordination of care, preoperative planning, and reduced use of unnecessary post-acute care.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Tokoni: Peer and Culture-Based Interventions to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes of Pacific Islanders in San Mateo County
Jei AfricaProject Goal: Leverage health navigators to reduce barriers for Pacific Islanders seeking behavioral health services.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Mindfulness-Based Medication Assisted Treatment
Jen HastingsProject Goal: To increase access to Medication Assisted Treatment resulting in decreased relapse.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Testing a Digital Health Coaching Model to Support Growing Families
Chitra AkileswaranProject Goal: To test a virtual coaching model that increases parents’ confidence and access to support from pregnancy through baby’s first year.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Increasing Access to Naloxone to High Risk Patients from Emergency Department
Henry KimProject Goals: To increase the percentage of patients at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Emergency Departments who receive a prescription for naloxone; and improve communication regarding use of naloxone to patients, family and friends.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Identifying a Digital Platform to Improve Access to Psychiatry Consultation in Primary Care
Cheryl BaggeroerProject Goal: To improve access to psychiatry consultation and to increase the competency and comfort level of Psychiatry Consultation Programs and Behavioral Health Providers in Alameda County’s Federally Qualified Health Centers in delivering behavioral health care to their patients.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Public Health and Correctional Health Collaboration to Prevent Congenital Syphilis in Los Angeles County
Sonali KulkarniProject Goal: To prevent congenital syphilis cases by screening women whose circumstances put them at higher risk of no or late prenatal care and elevated risk of syphilis by conducting the first national pilot of newly Food and Drug Administration approved rapid point-of-care syphilis test in the Los Angeles County women’s jail (Century Regional Detention Facility).
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF