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The safety net is full of innovators working on the hardest problems in American health care. CCI is a trusted guide that helps them go further, faster. Together. 

What We Do
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Spark

We spark new ways of working by connecting you to peers and possibilities you wouldn’t find on your own.

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Seed

We seed change by giving you the space, time, and resources to put new approaches into practice, plus the support to help it take root. 

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Spread

We spread what’s promising across the safety net, so you can draw on that shared knowledge and infrastructure to grow stronger.

Get Involved

CCI’s community is made of people who show up for each other. Join an event, get on our email list, and see what we’re building together.

  • Expression of Interest: Idea Labs for Immigrant Health Access — Respond by Oct. 16. CCI plans to bring cross-sector partners together for a full day of hands-on problem solving around one question: How might we build trusted pathways to care that help immigrant communities access and stay engaged in health care? Tell us where there’s appetite and momentum in your region.
  • 85 Years of Community-Oriented Innovation: Guiding Today’s AI Implementation — Oct. 7 at 12pm PT. Community health centers have always led by centering the people they serve. Join Lalita Abhyankar, MD, MHS, and Kelly Nieves, MD, for the next AI in Action session on patient governance, design thinking, and building trust through transparency as AI moves into care.
  • CCI is hiring! Bring your ideas, your energy, and your drive to transform the health care safety net. We’re looking for a Program Coordinator and a Program Manger.
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Years Strengthening the Safety Net
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Learning Experiences for people who power the safety net

Featured Resources

What we’ve learned from our programming may help yours.

This toolkit offers role-specific guides and ready-to-share patient materials in 12 languages to help immigrant communities access telehealth with confidence, including plain-language resources on using telehealth safely, building digital skills, and addressing privacy and immigration concerns.
AI in Action: Practical Applications for Safety Net Providers is a monthly webinar series developed through the collaboration of the Center for Care Innovations, AllianceChicago, and Health AI Partne...
Ending homelessness will require coordination and collaboration among many organizations across different sectors to make care more accessible, equitable, and effective. Explore CCI's collection of tools and resources aimed at helping organizations build resilient partnerships to integrate care for people experiencing homelessness.
Where We’re Focused Right Now

CCI works across the safety net — with providers, community-based organizations, health plans, public agencies, and philanthropic partners — to address the field’s most urgent needs. Right now that means:

 

Safe and Responsible AI

AI is entering health care faster than the guardrails can be built. Organizations that have the fewest resources and serve the highest-need communities face real risk in using AI without safeguards and real cost in being left behind. CCI is working alongside partners to create the shared governance and infrastructure needed for trustworthy AI adoption.

Immigrant Health

Shifting policies are creating fear and confusion that keeps people from care they need. Safety-net providers are on the front lines, navigating patient trust, workforce strain, and guidance that changes by the week. CCI builds the cross-sector collaboration and trusted access to care that keep immigrant communities healthy.

Behavioral Health Equity

Most people who need care for mental health and substance use disorders still don’t get it. Care works best when it’s evidence-based and free of stigma, delivered close to home, in a language they speak, by a provider they trust. CCI helps organizations work in closer coordination, and brings the plans, counties, and providers responsible for behavioral health to the same table to align resources and bring what works to scale.

Housing and Health

Housing instability and poor health are deeply linked, but the systems designed to address them rarely work together. People without stable housing cycle through emergency rooms, shelters, and the streets without coordinated care. CCI builds partnerships, care models, and infrastructure that make integrated care and innovative approaches possible.

Medicaid Transformation

Medicaid is the backbone of the safety net, and it’s under pressure from every direction. The leaders navigating that pressure need tools that work, peers who understand the terrain, and a way to turn policy change into real benefits for their communities. CCI convenes those leaders and supports their work of putting it into practice.