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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Public Health and Correctional Health Collaboration to Prevent Congenital Syphilis in Los Angeles County
Sonali KulkarniProject Goal: To prevent congenital syphilis cases by screening women whose circumstances put them at higher risk of no or late prenatal care and elevated risk of syphilis by conducting the first national pilot of newly Food and Drug Administration approved rapid point-of-care syphilis test in the Los Angeles County women’s jail (Century Regional Detention Facility).
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Identifying a Digital Platform to Improve Access to Psychiatry Consultation in Primary Care
Cheryl BaggeroerProject Goal: To improve access to psychiatry consultation and to increase the competency and comfort level of Psychiatry Consultation Programs and Behavioral Health Providers in Alameda County’s Federally Qualified Health Centers in delivering behavioral health care to their patients.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Texting Members to Bridge Gaps in Care
Johanna LiuProject Goal: To improve timely preventative care and chronic condition management using texting to help health plan members get care when they need it.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Act Together: Increase Employee Engagement with a New Model of Forum Theater Case Conferencing
Josh BanerjeeProject Goal: To develop a sustainable and scalable program that can improve survey measures of employee engagement for all health care staff everywhere.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Building Data Infrastructure to Address Social Determinants of Health in San Francisco Health Network
Ben LuiProject Goal: To develop Social Determinants of Health data governance infrastructure and an unifying informatics strategy in San Francisco Health Network and Department of Public Health to promote greater organizational alignment in addressing social determinants of health for our patients and populations.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Promoting Evidence Based Nursing Practice
Georgina BicknellProject Goal: To improve patient outcomes by initiating and adopting evidence based nursing practice.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF
Scaling Existing and Designing New Population Health Management Strategies for Success in a New Alternative Payment Model
Ami ParekhProject Goal: UCSF health will decrease the total cost of care for attributed medicare beneficiaries by scaling outpatient care management services and care at home programs, adding new skilled nursing facility transitions and End Stage Renal Disease programs, and leverage new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services claims data.
September 1, 2018View/Download PDF