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California Improvement Network

The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements.

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The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements.

What Is CIN?

The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action community that advances equitable health care experiences and outcomes for Californians through cross-sector connections, spreading good ideas, and implementing improvements.

CIN Quick Facts

CIN’s guiding vision for 2025-2027 is a future in which all people can experience person-centered care that results in improved and equitable care experiences and outcomes.

CIN partners engage in a shared governance model, define priorities for learning and action, collaborate on network activities, and advance the network’s aim by building relationships across the health care ecosystem.

CIN is unique in that it brings together health care organizations (HCOs), such as providers, payers, and supporters, with community-based and social service organizations (CBOs) to improve health care.

CIN is a project of the California Health Care Foundation and managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF.

Learn how CIN functions and who is in the network.

CIN Priority Areas

CIN establishes three priority areas for learning and action for each two-year cycle. For 2025-2027, we are focused on leading change and fostering resilience, improving care to achieve equity, partnering to support whole-person care.

See resources and tools for these and earlier priority areas below:

Join CIN!

The California Improvement Network is open to all and free of cost thanks to the support of the California Health Care Foundation. Subscribe now to hear about the latest health improvement events, resources, and tools through our monthly newsletter. See examples of our recent newsletters at these links:

Subscribe to CIN Newsletter

New & Noteworthy

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Upcoming event

CIN Webinar – Collaborative Care Model for Perinatal Mental Health

This webinar will introduce the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), an evidence-based approach to integrating behavioral health into primary care, with a focus on addressing perinatal depression. Participants will learn about the model and hear real-world insights from a Los Angeles-based initiative supporting CoCM for perinatal patients in FQHC settings.

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health
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CIN Webinar – Developing a Community-Based & Integrated Care Model with Peer Professionals

Behavioral Health

CIN Webinar – A Model for Equity-Centered Quality Improvement

Health Equity

CIN Webinar – Practical Application of the CIN Racial Health Equity Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care

Health Equity

Listening to Community Voices: A Health Plan’s Approach to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternity Care

Maternal Health
Past event

CIN Webinar — Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Through Harnessing Key Change Levers

This webinar focused on the main levers of change that the Cultivating Outcomes through Equity in Behavioral Telehealth (COE-BT) collaborative used to advance health equity in behavioral health.

Behavioral Health
Homeless Prenatal Program Lobby

CIN Webinar — Creating Equitable Health Outcomes Through Building Internal DEI Practices

Health Equity

Going Beyond ROI to Create Cultures of Equity: How Internal DEIB Impacts Community Health Outcomes

Facts and Data
Participants at CIN Partner Meeting in LA.

CIN Webinar – Building Processes to Improve SDOH Data Capture, Coding, and Referrals

Health Workforce
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Report

Future Thinking: What Must California Do To Create a Thriving Health Ecosystem?

Read three strategies to help ensure that California’s health ecosystem has a robust and diverse health workforce to meet community needs and create sustainable models of care delivery that advance health equity.

Health Workforce

CIN Convening – Partnering with Complex Power Dynamics

Medi-Cal

CIN Webinar – Affordability Accelerator Framework: A Roadmap to Improve Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs

Health Care Costs/Affordability

CIN Workshop – Analyzing and Communicating Results of DEIB Efforts in Communities

Health Equity
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CIN Webinar — Navigating Cross-Sector Challenges in a Street Medicine Partnership

Medi-Cal
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Past event

CIN Webinar – Developing Mutually Beneficial Funding Models in Community Health Partnerships

This CIN webinar focused on strategies to develop mutually beneficial and sustainable funding models, particularly through the efforts of CalAIM, in partnerships between social service and health care organizations.

Primary Care
Chiamaka Ugorji

Making Flu Vaccinations Easy: SCAN Health Plan’s Tactics to Reduce Racial Disparities

Health Equity
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How Community Voices Can Strengthen Health Workforce Strategies

Health Workforce
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Strategies for Recruiting and Nurturing a Thriving Health Workforce

Health Workforce

Understanding Indigenous Communities to Support Their Health Needs

Health Equity
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Past event

CIN Workshop – Tools for Authentic Collaboration and Decision-Making

This CIN workshop explored effective practices when collaborating as teams, including levels of member empowerment, effective meeting techniques, and problem-solving frameworks. The event was free and open to all staff at health and social services organizations.

Health Workforce

CIN Learning Session – The DHCS 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy and Bold Goals Initiative

Health Equity
Photo of Stella Safo, Sunita Mutha at CIN partner meeting in March 2023.

Equitable Co-Design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems

Health Equity
Ralph Silber

Planning for the Inevitable: Succession Planning for Senior Leaders

Health Workforce
Volunteer delivers medically tailored meal to patient's home.

Community-Based Organizations to Join Reimagined California Improvement Network

Medi-Cal
Microphone at conference
Past event

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

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.

Health Equity
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CIN Webinar — Introducing a Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement Efforts

Health Equity
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A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement

Health Equity

CIN Workshop — Advocate to Accelerate Change

Health Workforce

CIN Connections, Winter 2022 — Centering Equity in Health Care Improvement

Health Equity
Past event

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

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.

Maternal Health

CIN Connections, Summer 2021 — Caring and Sharing: Supporting the Primary Care Workforce

Health Workforce
CIN Connections, Spring 2021

CIN Connections, Spring 2021 — Addressing Racism to Improve Health

Health Equity
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Case Study

CIN Case Study: Coordinated Behavioral Care IPA

This case study describes an independent practice association’s journey implementing Healthify, an online social service resource directory and referral system, across a large network.

Behavioral Health

Listening to Community Voices: A Health Plan’s Approach to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternity Care

Maternal Health

Going Beyond ROI to Create Cultures of Equity: How Internal DEIB Impacts Community Health Outcomes

Facts and Data
microphone set up in front of a large crowd

Future Thinking: What Must California Do To Create a Thriving Health Ecosystem?

Health Workforce
Chiamaka Ugorji

Making Flu Vaccinations Easy: SCAN Health Plan’s Tactics to Reduce Racial Disparities

Health Equity