The Center for Care Innovations (CCI) recently gathered community health leaders to reflect on a key question: How might we imagine partnership work as a way to more deeply connect to one another?…
Here at CCI, we’re so proud of our safety net partners — the public hospitals, clinics, health care centers and networks, Indian health centers, and community-based organizations…
One of my favorite times at work is when I am in a meeting and it feels like we’re in a sandbox, where everyone realizes they want to build toward the same thing and starts creating it together. Des…
We interviewed CCI colleague, Wes Gabrillo about what brings him joy, his background as a teaching artist, and how his experience translates to the work he does supporting the safety net.
During the pandemic, health care organizations have been struggling to find ways to authentically connect with employees and team members remotely. With the explosion of COVID-19 cases, business shutd…
Just a month ago, hardly any states, counties, hospitals, or private labs had released the racial demographics of the people who had been impacted by COVID-19. Now we’ve learned that people of color…
In March, we announced our request for applications (RFA) for CALQIC (California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative) a new program that will support clinics in screening for and respo…
Last week I got my first glimpse of health care in the age of COVID-19.
Two days before Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Californians to “shelter in place” — that is, to stay home — my teenage son L…
CHCN is a technology innovation hub. And on top of everything else, CHCN is working furiously to boost the health centers’ HEDIS ratings — a set of quality improvement measures that can translate…
Have you ever struggled to gain support for an improvement project from key stakeholders?
You know what you want to achieve, you know what success will look like, and you already have all kinds of id…
In December, seven participants and program team members from Kaiser Permanente’s cardiovascular disease risk reduction initiatives attended a site visit at Livingston Health Center in California’…
Altura Centers for Health had a nagging problem. The Tulare, California, health center serves as the primary medical stop for about 30,000 residents in the Central Valley, but patient scheduling was a…
Petaluma Health Center is known for solving problems at its high-spirited daily huddles and regular brainstorming sessions.
But it discovered one persistent pain point needed some extra time and atte…
I first became acquainted with Quincy’s story when I watched a video about Marin City Health and Wellness Center and its medications for addiction treatment (MAT) program.
This is a story of practice transformation in a small primary care practice in Carson, Calif.
Here, Melchor Lagunzad is just one of the many patients who live with diabetes. Dr. Emil Padre’s practi…
As you may know, CCI has been leading the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative (RBC), a program dedicated to addressing childhood adversity in pediatric safety net care settings. We have learned through…
Diabetes and hypertension are lifelong diseases that are notoriously hard for many patients to manage. This July, as program team members for Kaiser Permanente’s PHASE program, we participated in a si…
Dr. Brian Hurley, the clinical director for CCI’s Addiction Treatment Starts Here: Primary Care program, talks about medication for addiction treatment (MAT).
The Center for Care Innovations is excited to be participating with organizations across the state in a larger effort to curb the opioid epidemic in California.
This larger effort will increase acces…