Project

CIN Resource Page: Addressing Social Needs That Impact Health

Medi-Cal
This California Improvement Network resource page focuses on tools and strategies for improving health outcomes by addressing patients’ social needs, including how to prioritize social needs strategies, supporting staff in effectively addressing social needs, and building partnerships with community-based organizations.
May 19, 2022

CIN Workshop — Confronting Racism Denial: Tools for Naming Racism and Moving to Action

Health Equity
May 19, 2022
This workshop is intended for health and social services leaders (broadly defined as those contributing to the health of communities) who want to better understand how racism impacts health and well-being and who are eager to take positive actions to combat the negative health impacts of racism.
January 11, 2022

CIN Webinar — Improving Behavioral Health Equity for Peri- and Postpartum Latinx Patients with Depression

Health Equity, Behavioral Health
January 11, 2022
Watch the replay of this CIN webinar to learn how Cherokee Health Systems redesigned workflows and clinical practices to improve the identification and treatment of depression for Latinx patients.
October 19, 2021

CIN Workshop — The Future of Medi-Cal: Changes and Opportunities Within CalAIM

Medi-Cal
October 19, 2021
In this workshop, CIN partners and their guests heard about the key changes and opportunities surrounding the CalAIM initiative.
Project

CIN Resource Page: Centering Equity in Quality Improvement

Health Equity
This California Improvement Network resource page provides curated tools to better understand how to integrate equity into care improvement initiatives.
November 2, 2021

CIN Partner Meeting — Centering Equity in Quality Improvement

Health Equity
November 2, 2021 - November 3, 2021
This CIN partner meeting explored how health organizations can increase their knowledge to embed and advance equity in all aspects of quality improvement projects.
Project

CIN Resource Page: Integrating Equity in Social Needs Efforts

Health Equity
This California Improvement Network resource page provides curated tools and strategies for centering equity in efforts to address social needs that impact health.
August 10, 2021

CIN Webinar — Buying Health for North Carolinians: Addressing Nonmedical Drivers of Health at Scale

Medi-Cal
August 10, 2021
During this webinar attendees learned how North Carolina is designing, implementing, and evaluating a statewide Healthy Opportunities initiative and how those efforts can be adapted to California through CalAIM.
August 19, 2021

CIN Webinar — Washington’s Statewide Community Care Coordination and SWACH’s HealthConnect Hub

Health Equity
August 19, 2021
This webinar helped attendees learn from the efforts in Washington in developing an infrastructure for integrating community-based care coordination programs that improve access, equity, and whole-person health.
Publication

CIN Connections, Spring 2021 — Addressing Racism to Improve Health

March 2021
Health Equity
In this issue of CIN Connections, CIN partners explore how racism drives health inequities on many levels and leads to higher mortality, strategies to ensure equity, and how to develop an anti-racist organization.
January 13, 2021

CIN Partner Meeting — Addressing Racism to Improve Health

Health Equity
January 13, 2021
This CIN partner meeting explores how health organizations can address racism to improve efforts to address social needs that impact health and improve the health of the populations served.
November 5, 2020

CIN Discussion: Leading with Empathy — Organizational Strategies for Effective Leadership and Patient Care

November 5, 2020
This webinar recording on Empathic Inquiry helps leaders reframe organizational engagement with staff by focusing on respect, relationship building, and power sharing.
September 3, 2020

CIN Webinar — Listening to Connect: Patient-Centered Social Needs Screening Using Empathic Inquiry

September 3, 2020
This webinar recording on Empathic Inquiry helps guide professionals in developing a conversational approach in social needs screening that promotes partnership, affirmation, and patient engagement.
Publication

CIN Connections, Spring 2020 — Foundations for Health

April 2020
Workforce, Maternal Health
This issue of CIN Connections features tips on how to be a resilient leader, make strategic decisions around social needs interventions, as well as lessons on building partnerships across the health care landscape.
Project

CIN Resource Page: Making the Case to Address Social Needs

Workforce
This resource page from the California Improvement Network consists of a short list of relevant and timely resources to help health care organizations address social needs that impact health.
Collection

CIN Stories from the Field: Social Needs Screening and Referral Models

Homelessness & Health Care
What practices, tools, and workflows have leading health care organizations adopted to assess and address social needs that impact health?
External Resource

After Some Hurdles, California Whole Person Care Pilots Hit Stride

This Q&A highlights the California Safety Net Institute (SNI), a CIN partner organization, and its work to improve care for the state’s high-needs patients by breaking data-sharin­g barriers, leveraging community health workers and peer navigators, and delivering care outside clinic walls. SNI’s Amanda Clarke, MPH, associate director of programs, describes the challenges, lessons and opportunities of the state’s Whole Person Care pilots.

November 6, 2018

CIN Webinar — Engaging Patients in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Behavioral Health
November 6, 2018
In this webinar, learn tips and strategies for engaging patients in substance use disorder treatment.
March 21, 2019

CIN Webinar — Social Needs Screening and Referral Models

March 21, 2019
A review of the practices, tools, and workflows that leading health care organizations have adopted to address social needs that impact health.
Publication

CIN Connections, Summer 2018 — Beyond the Exam Room

June 2018
The Summer 2018 edition of CIN Connections offers actionable information on addressing the social needs of patients in their lives outside the exam room.
Publication

CIN Partners Share: Addressing Social Needs Through Community Partnerships

December 2016
California Improvement Network partners met to discuss how it will take more than just health care to improve California’s health.
Project

CIN Safety-Net Quality Improvement Projects

Between October 2016 and March 2017, clinic consortia, Medi-Cal health plans, and departments of public health received grants from CHCF's California Improvement Network to enhance the population health improvement programs they provide for their provider audiences.
Get more tools and resources to accelerate the spread of quality improvement innovation from the California Improvement Network.
CIN Resources and Tools