Developing an Insourcing Strategy for Telepsychiatry Services in a Consortium of Native American Health Centers

Project 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.

Decreasing Barriers to Sharing Medical Records

Project 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.

Together we SOAR – Improving Specialty Screening Opportunities for Cancers and Retinopathy

Project 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.

Reducing Patient Harm by Increasing Physician Integration

Project 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.

Redefining Usual Care in the Gynecology Clinic: A Collaborative Care Depression Intervention Model

Project 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.

Leveraging an Integrated Health Care System to Improve Quality of Care by Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Project 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.

Collaborating with Health Plans to Improve Care for Homeless High Utilizers

Project Goal: To enroll, house, and track healthcare costs for 20 people who are homeless and high utilizers of emergency healthcare.

Bringing Hepatitis C Cure into Primary Care for the Urban Underserved

Project Goal: To develop a sustainable and replicable model to treat and cure Hepatitis C within the community clinic setting, which increases Hepatitis C treatment access for vulnerable populations through both internal and external collaboration.

Building Specialty Care Leadership Teams in a Safety-Net Hospital System

Project Goal: To develop a standardized Quality Improvement (QI) curriculum and implement a structured QI learning academy. The project will identify and improve specialty care management teamwork skills, refine leadership abilities of the management team, provide support to specialty care teams to develop/implement a QI project, and develop a structured coaching program for the QI learning academy.

Can Care Integration Improve Clinical Outcomes for Diabetics?

Project Goal: To improve the health outcomes of uncontrolled diabetics through a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to education and care.