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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Primary Care Virtual Multi-Disciplinary Support Team (MIST)
Dominique QuincyProject Goal: To establish a multi-disciplinary team doing virtual care to improve physician access, growth and joy of medicine in clinic.
September 1, 2019View/Download PDF
Improving Operating Room Utilization at a Level I Trauma Center
Tamara ChambersProject Goal: To increase the number of elective and emergency surgical cases completed daily at a Level I Trauma Center.
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Improving Access to Behavioral Health Services: Care When You Need It
Shahna RogosinProject Goal: To improve access to behavioral health services by providing educational outreach to primary care teams and implementing consistent use of screening tools.
September 1, 2019View/Download PDF
Child and Teen Outpatient Psychiatry –Tackling Our Youth Mental Health Crisis
Ann BirdProject Goal: To offer comprehensive and accessible outpatient mental health treatments to the children and families receiving their medical care at UC San Diego Health.
September 1, 2019View/Download PDF
A Multifaced Approach to Improving Quality Measures in the San Diego Veteran's Affairs Community Living Center
Emily SladekProject Goal: To improve the Quality Measure (QM) score in the San Diego Veteran's Affairs Community Living Center by advocating for improved score calculus, which would better reflect the care provided.
September 1, 2019
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Applying New Technologies to Revolutionize STD Prevention and Control
Stephanie CohenProject Goal: To decrease the rate of gonorrhea (GC) and chlamydia (CT) in San Francisco, by increasing the proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM) and trans women who are screened for STDs every 3 months, and decreasing the time from diagnosis to treatment, thereby decreasing secondary transmission opportunities.
September 1, 2019View/Download PDF
Implementing a Population Health Approach to Patient Identification and Treatment of Depression in Primary Care
Carolyn SteadProject Goal: To pilot a payer-agnostic Collaborative Care program for depression in three UCSF Primary Care Clinics that utilizes patient identification for enrollment, systematic tracking with the use of a registry, brief psychotherapy, and psychiatric consultation.
September 1, 2019View/Download PDF