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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.

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.

Advancing health equity requires coordination of health and social services in every community. The 2023-2024 cycle of CIN supports the future state of health care in California by bringing together health care organizations (HCOs), such as providers, payers, and supporters, with community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide food, housing, legal, and other services.

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 2023-2024, we are focused on strengthening foundations, advancing health equity, and evolving roles and care models. 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 online:

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New & Noteworthy

May 2, 2024

CIN Webinar – Navigating Cross-Sector Challenges in a Street Medicine Partnership

May 2, 2024
This CIN webinar will focus on how a health care organization and a social services organization are addressing operational challenges in their partnership to provide street medicine and supportive services to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Publication

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

December 2023
California Improvement Network
Through a multi-channel approach and partnerships with community organizations, SCAN plans not only to minimize disparities in flu vaccination for their members in Los Angeles, but also to engage members year-round and establish themselves as a trusted voice for health care.
January 25, 2024

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

January 25, 2024
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.
Publication

How Community Voices Can Strengthen Health Workforce Strategies

October 2023
California Improvement Network
Learn how organizations can recruit more widely, leverage community partnerships, and improve staff retention.
Publication

Strategies for Recruiting and Nurturing a Thriving Health Workforce

October 2023
California Improvement Network
Employers must understand and respond to staff priorities, strategize and implement career pathways, and cultivate a workplace culture of care.
Publication

Understanding Indigenous Communities to Support Their Health Needs

August 2023
California Improvement Network
Indigenous communities in California and throughout the United States face striking health disparities. Learn three ways that health and social services organizations can address these inequities.
September 27, 2023

CIN Workshop – Tools for Authentic Collaboration and Decision-Making

September 27, 2023
This CIN workshop will explore effective practices when collaborating as teams, including levels of member empowerment, effective meeting techniques, and problem-solving frameworks. The event is free and open to all staff at health and social services organizations.
April 26, 2023

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

April 26, 2023
Learn about the quality and health equity strategy to support the vision that people covered by the Medi-Cal program have longer, healthier, and happier lives, including quality objectives and metrics, health equity roadmap, and value-based payment reform strategy.
Publication

Planning for the Inevitable: Succession Planning for Senior Leaders

March 2023
California Improvement Network
Learn about the three phases for how organizations can think strategically when key personnel transition out of their role: preparation; search and selection for the new executive; and onboarding and ongoing support.
Publication

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

April 2023
California Improvement Network
Health Equity
Learn about three interventions to help health systems and community-based groups address the social drivers of health and bring about meaningful structural change in this CIN summary.
CHCF Blog

Community-Based Organizations to Join Reimagined California Improvement Network

January 9, 2023
Kathryn Phillips
Medi-Cal, Health Equity
Equity is at the center of future quality improvement work in California. Learn about the community-based organizations joining CIN as peers and partners in 2023.
Publication

A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement

April 2022
California Improvement Network
Health Equity
This CIN toolkit offers concrete, practical approaches and resources to help health care organizations — including those that provide, pay for, or support primary care — to increase quality improvement efforts that center racial health equity. Case studies provide insights into how organizations have implemented improvements.
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.
March 24, 2022

CIN Workshop — Advocate to Accelerate Change

March 24, 2022
This CIN workshop focused on a framework for catalyzing and implementing change on the interpersonal, organizational, and systemic levels. Watch the replay.
Publication

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

January 2022
California Improvement Network
Health Equity
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.
Publication

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

June 2021
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.
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.
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