About CIN
Established in 2005, the California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements.
Advancing health equity requires coordination of health and social services in every community. The 2023-2024 cycle of CIN supports the future state of health care in California by bringing together health care organizations (HCOs), such as providers, payers, and supporters, with community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide food, housing, legal, and other services.
CIN is a project of the California Health Care Foundation and managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF.
What Is a Learning and Action Network?
CIN accelerates the spread of health improvement innovations through:
- Connection: Meetings and other opportunities to build and strengthen connections among partners and members to increase improvement capacity.
- Learning: Speakers, workshops, and other resources that advance knowledge and skills for leaders.
- Action: Partners and members implement improvements in their organizations.
Learn how CIN functions and who is in the network.
Three Priority Areas to Accelerate the Spread of Innovation
CIN develops three critical priority areas for each two-year cycle through a collaborative process that incorporates the strategic priorities of partners and the broader network. For the 2023-2024 cycle, these priority areas are:
- Strengthening foundations
- Advancing health equity
- Evolving roles and care models
Identifying priority areas reflects CIN’s commitment to provide timely and useful knowledge that enables leaders to learn and incorporate leading-edge practices and concepts into improvement efforts. CIN provides technical assistance, programming, resources, and activities to support advancements in these priority areas.
See the Resources and Tools for these and earlier CIN priority areas and topics.
Join CIN
The California Improvement Network is open to all and free of cost thanks to the support of the California Health Care Foundation. Subscribe now to hear about the latest health improvement events, resources, and tools through our monthly newsletter.
Latest Resources from CIN
CIN Connections captures learnings and tools from periodic network meetings. Here are recent reports, which reflect the wide range of topics the network members address:
- CIN Connections, Winter 2022: Centering Equity in Health Care Improvement
- CIN Connections, Summer 2021: Caring and Sharing: Supporting the Primary Care Workforce
- CIN Connections, Spring 2021: Addressing Racism to Improve Health
- CIN Connections, Fall 2020: Emerging Innovations: Health Care During a Pandemic
- CIN Connections, Spring 2020: Foundations for Health
- CIN Connections, Summer 2019: Leadership for Continuous Change and Improvement
- CIN Connections, Spring 2019: Managing Financial Risk and Total Cost of Care
- CIN Connections, Fall 2018: Integrating Primary Care and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
- CIN Connections, Spring 2018: Healing the Healers
See the CIN website for more information.