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June 2025: Discusses site visits to LA General Medical Center and UCLA Health, highlighting their innovations and achievements in trauma care and quality measures. Focuses on data alignment efforts between public health care systems and Medi-Cal managed care plans, plus access improvements at LADHS and RUHS.

January 2025: Reflects on challenging start to 2025 with wildfires and Medicaid financing uncertainty while celebrating 2024 Quality Leaders Awards winners for innovative care approaches. Covers co-designing for equity initiatives, patient engagement techniques, and new Quality Incentive Pool measures.

October 2024: Focuses on better understanding patients through improved data exchange between systems and plans, and enhanced community engagement strategies. Covers system-plan data alignment successes, patient engagement best practices from Racial Equity Community of Practice, and cancer screening improvements.

June 2024: Focuses on Quality Incentive Pool redesign process and strengthening connections between systems, the State, and Medi-Cal managed care plans. Covers QIP Annual Conference achievements, system-plan partnership development, and racial equity organizational assessments.

January 2024: Highlights second phase launch of Racial Equity Community of Practice and January convening of 120 leaders from public health care systems and local Medi-Cal managed care plans focused on quality and equity. Features Quality Leaders Awards winners and showcases integrated care models like Riverside University Health System’s social services integration.

November 2023: Announces partnership with Local Health Plans of California and upcoming primary care programming aligned with CalAIM initiatives. Covers SNI visits to Riverside and Ventura County systems, Racial Equity Community of Practice Phase 2 launch, and data exchange capacity building efforts.

August 2023: Introduces new team member Natalie Sainz and announces partnership with Local Health Plans of California to improve collaboration between public health care systems and Medicaid managed care plans. Covers workforce wellbeing program conclusion, Racial Equity Community of Practice progress, and Quality Incentive Pool achievements.

May 2023: Announces leadership transitions with Dr. Ash Amarnath joining as Chief Health Officer, and highlights progress in the Racial Equity Community of Practice with 40+ leaders from 12 public health systems collaborating on equity initiatives.

January 2023: Features the 2022 Quality Leaders Awards winners, including Alameda Health System’s BElovedBIRTH program for Black maternal health, and provides updates on SNI’s workforce wellbeing program addressing post-pandemic staffing crisis and burnout.

December 2022: Presents SNI’s new commitment statement to advancing health equity developed with CAPH, and covers the successful “Back to Basics” ambulatory care workshop addressing COVID-endemic care delivery challenges.