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CQC’s latest issue brief provides a strategic framework to address disparities and ensure equity is at the forefront of care delivery.
This past month, CQC launched the Behavioral Health Integration – Children and Youth Collaborative Learning Exchange, a nine-month program uniting organizations across California to integrate behavioral health into primary care for children and youth.
Over the last several months, the California Quality Collaborative, a trusted neutral convener, has united stakeholders from across the health care landscape.
CQC has been recognized as an approved vendor of the Department of Health Care Services’ Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) Technical Assistance Marketplace within the area of health equity promotion.
Read our 2023 Impact Report to discover the profound impact of CQC’s work and explore how we’re setting the benchmarks for excellence in health care in our work to foster a healthier future for all.
The need for enhanced behavioral health services for children and youth has never been more pressing. In response, the California Quality Collaborative is launching the Behavioral Health Integration – Children and Youth Collaborative Learning Exchange.
CQC has developed a guide to help health plans, provider organizations and individual providers design effective outreach campaigns to support colorectal cancer screening.
Pioneering a new era in primary care financing, hybrid payments offer a promising alternative to traditional fee-for-service models, focusing on quality over quantity to enhance patient outcomes and system efficiency.
Alternative Payment Models that incentivize clinicians to provide high-quality, cost-efficient care beyond traditional fee-for-service payments hold the potential to expand access, improve outcomes and address health disparities.
Through the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative, CQC and partner Integrated Healthcare Association are working to strengthen the state’s delivery system through critical efforts such as the development of a common value-based payment model that increases investment in primary care.
A fundamental way in which CQC supports provider organizations in their critical practice transformation work is through its multi-year technical assistance programs, the CalHIVE Improvement Collaboratives.
With 70% of primary care visits involving individuals experiencing mental health issues, integrating behavioral health into the primary care setting is one way to better ensure patients get the care they need.
A recent California Health Care Foundation publication details a collective effort by the state’s largest public purchasers, which provide care to more than 18 million Californians, to negotiate contracts with health plans.
California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has become a sponsor of CQC for 2023 and 2024! CHCF’s commitment and funding will support our efforts to place equity at the center of CQC’s aims and align with Medi-Cal priorities.
California-based provider organizations: Kickstart your behavioral health integration journey with the CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration Improvement Collaborative.
Our efforts are furthering advanced primary care, accelerating behavioral health integration into primary care practices and improving access and outcomes of virtual care for Californians.
CQC’s Behavioral Health Integration Initiative will support behavioral health integration efforts by small and independent primary care practices throughout the State of California.
Six health care organizations serving California have signed an MOU to increase investment in and access to Advanced Primary Care.
As CQC continues initiatives to define and scale Advanced Primary Care, collaboration with stakeholders across California is crucial.
CQC continues to define, measure and scale high quality, efficient and patient-centered primary care, known as Advanced Primary Care.
Highlights from CQC’s work in 2021 to improve health care for Californians.
New resources to guide organizations in their improvement initiatives to integrate behavioral health services.
This newsletter includes examples of data collection advances that support health equity.
How to identify and support practices implementing Advanced Primary Care, and more.
Spotlighting how California health plans and provider groups are working to ensure everyone has a shot to beat COVID.
CQC-defined standards of Advanced Primary Care from consensus to implementation.
In October, CQC launched our latest improvement collaborative, the CalHIVE Network.
