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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Transitioning the Emergency Medical Services Agency to the Department of Public Health: New Beginnings
Naveena BobbaProject Goal: To ensure that emergency medical services staff transition and acculturate successfully so that the current work of the agency is maintained.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Scaling Existing and Designing New Population Health Management Strategies for Success in a New Alternative Payment Model
Ami ParekhProject Goal: UCSF health will decrease the total cost of care for attributed medicare beneficiaries by scaling outpatient care management services and care at home programs, adding new skilled nursing facility transitions and End Stage Renal Disease programs, and leverage new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services claims data.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Reducing Emergency Department Overuse and Improving Access to Primary Care Through Use of Emergency Department Navigator
Sergio CamarilloProject Goal: Reduce emergency department (ED) crowding and avoidable ED visits for patients without a primary care partnership and improve emergency throughput times.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Removing Transportation Barriers to Health Care
Mitesh PopatProject Goals: To reduce transportation barriers for patients at Marin Community Clinics to decrease the number of missed appointments, and demonstrate return on investment of the program to ensure sustained funding.
September 1, 2018
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A 4-Quadrant Risk Stratification Tool for Full Integration Care Management
Rafael Gonzalez-AmezcuaProject Goal: To develop and deploy a tool to guide a comprehensive assessment and integration of services for complex dual eligible patients.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF
Identification of a Behavioral Health Screening Workflow in Primary Care
Lisa RosequistProject Goal: To identify the most efficient workflow in implementing universal behavioral health screening in primary care and provide three thirty- minute behavioral health trainings to support successful integration.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF
Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network
Laura GottliebProject Goal: To increase the capacity of the health care system to implement and sustain the most effective strategies to care for low income populations by catalyzing and disseminating high quality research on how to identify and address patients’ social needs in the context of clinical care.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF