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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Implementing a Pre-Operative Screening Pathway to Identify Mild Cognitive Impairment
Kanoe AllenProject Goal: To utilize a standardized care path to identify patients and minimize the deleterious impacts of the surgical episode of care for patients over age 65, with identified mild cognitive impairment.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Developing an Insourcing Strategy for Telepsychiatry Services in a Consortium of Native American Health Centers
Thomas KimProject Goal: To provide a California Rural Indian Health Board based telepsychiatry service to rural Native American communities which more effectively achieves Triple Aim goals of providing excellent care and enhanced patient experience due to provider cultural fluency while improving access and promoting financial sustainability to their telehealth programs.
September 1, 2016View/Download PDF
Optimizing Physician Use of the Electronic Health Record
Albert ChanProject Goal: To develop a learning ecosystem to improve physicians’ achievement and maintenance of electronic health record (EHR) skill competency in a sustainable way and improve physician satisfaction with the EHR support we deliver to them.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Empowering High Risk American Indian Diabetic Patients through Individualized Case Management
Ria PaulProject Goal: To improve glycemic control of American Indian Diabetic patients of our health center and thereby reducing associated mortality and morbidity.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Integrative Medicine and Safety Net Clinic Transformation
Steven ChenProject Goal: To become the provider of choice and improve patient experience by implementing an integrative medicine model of care at Hayward Wellness.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Telephone Appointments, an Access to Care Alternative
Jorge RamirezProject Goal: To provide an alternative for immediate, convenient, effective and, for now, free of charge access to medical care through telephone appointments.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Palliative Care Integration Into The Clinical Care of Advanced Congestive Heart Failure
Tim CorbinProject Goal: To improve quality of care and outcomes for advanced heart failure patients by integration of Palliative Care specialty service into routine treatment.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF