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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Doing More with the Same: Improving Specialty Access and Communication in the Safety Net
Neha GuptaProject Goal: Implement eConsult in at least 20 specialties by December 2019, leverage eConsult mechanism for at least 25% of all referrals by August 2020, and reduce backlog to specialty care by 50% by August 2020.
October 22, 2020View/Download PDF
Busting the Visit Buster: A Tele-Behavioral Health Intervention for Managing Acute Psychosocial Crises in Primary Care
Elizabeth HorevitzProject Goal: To improve access to needed behavioral health services for patients and reduce the frequency of providers reporting unmet need for same-day behavioral health services for complex psychosocial issues.
October 22, 2020View/Download PDF
Meeting Acute Care Patients’ Behavioral Health and Social Needs through Multi-Disciplinary Partnership
Hemal KanzariaProject Goal: Sustain and expand the ZSFG Social Medicine program by September 2020 via a) Securing $2M in financial support to grow team; b) Investing in staff engagement and professional development, and assessing measures of teamwork and engagement; c) Developing new internal and external cross-sector partners to expand service delivery – e.g., housing + substance use linkage; d) Scaling this team-based model of care to ZSFG inpatient and psychiatric units, and 1 outside hospital; e) Tracking # patients served, # admissions/readmissions averted, % reduction in return ED visits, % reduction in non-billable lower-level-of-care inpatient days; and f) Disseminating work via academic publication and other forums.
October 22, 2020View/Download PDF
“Psychiatry Cares” Urgent Psychiatry Pathway
Mercedes KwiatkowskiProject Goal: To provide virtual psychiatric consultation to 10 patients per week with urgent psychiatric needs within 72 hours of seeing their PCP. This will decrease levels of PCP burnout, decrease number of urgent referrals to psychiatry, and increase percentage of referrals accepted by psychiatry.
October 22, 2020View/Download PDF
Spreading ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care at Santa Rosa Community Health
Deirdre Bernard-PearlProject Goal: The goal of the project was to train all staff at Santa Rosa Community Health on Trauma-Informed Care and ACEs screening and to begin universal ACEs screening by 2021.
October 22, 2020View/Download PDF
Building An Integrated Care Training Program To Serve the Underserved
Barbara C. AckermanProject Goal: To establish a training program for Family Medicine residents and clinical psychology students so they can learn to deliver integrated health care services as a team to underserved patients in a primary care out-patient setting.
October 20, 2020View/Download PDF
Narcan Per Pharmacy
Beatrisa BannisterProject Goal: Develop a protocol that would allow all LAC+USC pharmacists to distribute a Naloxone (Narcan) prescription for any patient getting a CII narcotic from a LAC+USC Pharmacy.
October 20, 2020View/Download PDF