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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Building A Better Discharge Pathway
Felicia TornabeneProject Goal: To improve hospital flow to better accommodate incoming admissions, eliminate upstream delays in the emergency department, and improve the experience for new patients waiting for beds by decreasing the time between discharge order to discharge and moving the median patient discharge time earlier in the day.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Leveraging an Integrated Health Care System to Improve Quality of Care by Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Reza GoharderakhshanProject Goal: To adopt and share regional best practices on Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) prevention, minimize clinical care variation across the Kaiser Permanente facilities, and decrease the volume of CAUTI cases per year by 20% while improving patient care experience.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Leveraging Physician – Coder Dyads to Improve Electronic Health Record Problem List Quality
Veko VahamakiProject Goal: To improve medical record quality and study project clinical benefit for our Medicare Advantage patients.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Redefining Usual Care in the Gynecology Clinic: A Collaborative Care Depression Intervention Model
Griselda GutierrezProject Goal: To improve outcomes of women with depression who obtain care in the Gynecology Clinic through an integrated Collaborative Care model that will immediately engage the patient in her depression care, promote patient input into care treatment options, track care, and step care to reach the desired target state.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Buprenorphine Treatment Program for Chronic Pain Patients
Kelvin VuProject Goal: To save and improve the lives of patients with chronic pain in Humboldt County by creating a formalized Buprenorphine treatment program.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Reducing Patient Harm by Increasing Physician Integration
Darrell HarringtonProject 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.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Impacting Safety & Quality in Chronic Pain Management
Lisa WardProject Goal: To reduce the number of patients at risk for overdose by enhancing infrastructure that tracks and facilitates safe, appropriate opioid prescribing in three primary care clinics.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF