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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Ensuring Faster Access to Effective Multiple Sclerosis Medications
Bahar DavidoffProject Goal: To ensure that Multiple Sclerosis patients receive the most effective medication with in a month of diagnosis to reduce relapses and disease progression leading to inpatient utilization.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Keeping Patients Out of the Emergency Department After Acute Hospitalization
Alpa SanghaviProject Goal: Implement discharge bundle to improve patient experience with discharge process and reduce post discharge emergency department return.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Cost Savings and a Better Patient Experience: A Win-Win; How 340B Pricing Saved Over $1,000,000/Year
Stanley DeaProject Goal: To reduce costs by decreasing the number of patients using outside pharmacies by making it easier for patients to procure their anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor medications at our 340B pharmacies.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Walk with Me: A Patient-Engaged Health Systems Curriculum for Early MD and PA Students
Erika SchillingerProject Goal: To create a structured course to engage Medical Doctors and Physical Assistants students directly with patients, caregivers, and the health care system. Students will understand patients’ and caregivers’ lived experiences and therefore be more compassionate clinicians and leaders.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
The Expected Practice: Standardizing Specialty Consultation
Monica SoniProject Goal: To increase utilization of existing clinical pathways (expected practices) by primary care physicians through improved integration into daily workflow.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF
The Galileo Project: The Global Risk Playbook for Transformative Population Health
Ali KhanProject Goal: To build, validate, and implement a replicable high-risk/utilizer care management program focused on upstream health risk reduction – for payors and providers approaching global financial risk.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF
Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Communities
Candy Stockton-JoretegProject Goal: To increase access to medication-assisted therapy in Shasta County by increasing the number of providers waivered to prescribe buprenorphine.
September 1, 2017View/Download PDF