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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Telephone Appointments, an Access to Care Alternative
Jorge RamirezProject Goal: To provide an alternative for immediate, convenient, effective and, for now, free of charge access to medical care through telephone appointments.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Palliative Care Integration Into The Clinical Care of Advanced Congestive Heart Failure
Tim CorbinProject Goal: To improve quality of care and outcomes for advanced heart failure patients by integration of Palliative Care specialty service into routine treatment.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Implementation of Teach Flu a Lesson – School-Based Vaccination Clinics
Robert RiewertsProject Goal: To increase the number of vaccinated children in southland elementary schools, thus creating herd immunity in a vulnerable population and closing health disparity gaps in our membership and/or communities in which we live and serve.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
On-Site Tuberculosis Clinic in Los Angeles Skid Row Homeless Shelter
Condessa CurleyProject Goal: To reduce and eliminate transmission of Tuberculosis in the Pathways to Home Homeless shelter by 2020.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
High Value Care in the Safety Net: Implementation of Clinical Decision Support for High Cost Diagnostic Imaging in a Large Public Health System
Jennifer SaylesProject Goal: To reduce inappropriate orders of high cost diagnostic and imaging tests performed in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services system.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
Registry to Improve Depression Management
Nancy FacherProject Goal: To provide patients with evidence-based treatments to treat their depression "to target": a 50% reduction in their baseline PHQ-9 score.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF
OBGYN Surgery Dollars Recovery Project
Susan ScottProject Goal: To improve overall efficiency of Surgery Department at Ventura County Medical Center.
September 1, 2015View/Download PDF