Author: Gina Lenhart

Last month, as I sat in an hour+ of LA traffic to visit a CAPH/SNI member system only several miles away, I found myself astonished by the sheer scale of the standstill.
For public health care systems and Medi-Cal managed care plans beginning to tackle quality data exchange and alignment, SNI developed a roadmap and report to support their collaboration.
Discover how Riverside University Health System (RUHS) and Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) worked together to exchange data, align performance rates, and launch joint outreach efforts. Read about their experience collaborating on complex data alignment to improve patient care.
For public health care systems building an AI foundation, Dr. Karandeep Singh, Chief Health AI Officer at UC San Diego Health, shares his expertise and experience. He offers insights on lessons he has learned in the AI space, his approach to selecting AI tools, strategies for evaluating AI models for equity, and more.
I usually start SNI's first newsletter of the year with a message of optimism and hope – reflecting the time when many of us typically set resolutions and contemplate better versions of ourselves and the new challenges we want to tackle, both professionally and personally.

The Quality Incentive Pool (QIP) is a managed care directed payment program that challenges public health care systems to improve equity and quality for Medi-Cal managed care enrollees via ambitious pay-for-performance targets. Incentives are tied to achievement of performance targets across multiple domains of care, including health equity. SNI provides ongoing analytics and quality improvement […]

(Napa, CA)– Today, the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH), in partnership with the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI), proudly recognized five exceptional public health care systems with the 2024 Quality Leaders Awards (QLA). These awards celebrate innovative efforts to advance quality, equity, and access to care for California’s most underserved populations. Each awardee has

In our ongoing efforts to achieve the highest quality of care, California’s public health care systems and SNI have recently focused on how to better know patients.
In this Q&A, Giovanna Guiliani, SNI’s executive director, and Linnea Koopmans, LHPC’s CEO, discuss collaborating more closely in 2024 and the difference it makes for patients.
In the first half of 2024, we’ve focused on deepening connections between systems and the State; Medi-Cal managed care plans and systems; and system peers.