California Plan/Practice Improvement Project (PPIP)
A project to align the key interests and roles of health plans and providers to improve asthma care for Medicaid beneficiaries in California.
Who
The project involved the state of California’s Medi-Cal managed care division, eight Medi-Cal health plans and 16 practice sites.
Our Role
Ran a virtual learning collaborative to apply the Chronic Care Model and quality improvement methodology to improving care for children with asthma.
Funder
The project was funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and conducted in partnership with the Center for Health Care Strategies and the Improving Chronic Illness Care Program (ICIC) of the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the California Plan/Practice Improvement Project (PPIP) or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
