CIN – Partners

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

This issue of CIN Connections offers ways to implement quality improvement efforts that intentionally advance health equity in primary care. It summarizes strategies and reflections from national leaders at the CIN partners meeting in November 2021 as they wrestle with addressing health disparities.

November 2, 2021

CIN Partner Meeting — Centering Equity in Quality Improvement

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.

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

In this issue of CIN Connections, learn about strategies from health care leaders as they wrestle with increased levels of burnout, trauma, and moral injury among the primary care workforce. Hear about multimodal approaches to building a culture of well-being — creating a workplace where it’s okay to not be okay, to talk about feelings, and to get support.

CIN Partner Meeting — Building Back Better: A Resilient Primary Care Workforce

This CIN partner meeting explored how health organizations can gain insights and learn about successful strategies for building a strong and resilient primary care workforce.

CIN Connections, Spring 2021 — Addressing Racism to Improve Health

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

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.

CIN Connections, Fall 2020 — Emerging Innovations: Health Care During a Pandemic

In this issue of CIN Connections, learn how Dr. Mitch Katz, president and CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals, adapted its health care delivery model in the surge of the pandemic in New York City, and how CIN partners have adapted their work in the midst of massive change.

CIN Resource Page: Extended Reality (XR)

This California Improvement Network resource page focuses on the reach and limitations of virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence in clinical settings, including behavioral health treatment and clinical decision making, among other applications.

CIN Resource Page: Providing Care Differently

This California Improvement Network resource page focuses on the emerging innovations and real time shifts that health care organizations are making to effectively provide care for their patients during a crisis.

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.

CIN Resource Page: Addressing Social Needs That Impact Health

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.

CIN Resource Page: Resilient Leadership

Workforce, Investing in Innovation

This California Improvement Network resource page focuses on tools that support leaders in health care organizations to build resilience, inspire and motivate, foster organizational alignment, develop powerful communication, and navigate change.

September 18, 2020

CIN Partner Meeting — Emerging Innovations: Health Care During a Pandemic

Investing in Innovation

September 18, 2020 - October 7, 2020

How has the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed health care delivery? This CIN partner meeting explores the innovations, failures, and leadership lessons during the pandemic.

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.

August 26, 2020

CIN Webinar — Using Virtual Reality to Improve Patient Care

Telehealth, Behavioral Health

August 26, 2020

This webinar recording on implementing virtual reality in clinical settings also provides a deep dive into how this technology can be embedded into an interdisciplinary pain management program.