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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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
Together we SOAR – Improving Specialty Screening Opportunities for Cancers and Retinopathy
Tracy ImleyProject Goal: To improve the health of the members at Kaiser Permanente by screening for four (4) major illnesses at all outpatient specialty clinic visits at the South Bay Medical Center.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Rural Health Telemedicine Dermatology Specialty Service
Sandi AdamsProject Goal: To advance the use of telemedicine technology to improve access and quality for dermatology specialty care services for the rural health community by June 2017.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Decreasing Barriers to Sharing Medical Records
Fatema IqbalProject Goal: To secure Sutterlink access for 25 nurses and nurse practitioners to provide comprehensive and timely evaluation of the pediatric surgical patient’s outside medical records to avoid delays in surgical clearance.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF