About CQC
Success Stories

Highlights & Accomplishments

Between 2007 and 2010 CQC worked with nearly 2,000 leaders from 300 organizations providing health care to an estimated 13 million Californians to improve clinical quality, patient experience or cost of care.  CQC offered expert training and peer-to-peer learning via a combination of teleconferences, one-day on-site sessions and year-long intensive programs.  Programs bring together clinicians and executives from physician groups, health plans and community agencies around a shared goal of improving patient care in California.

CQC 2011 Program Recaps

Avoid Readmissions Through Collaboration

The Chronic Care Collaborative

Inland Quality Collaborative

The Meteor Program

Selected Results

Patient experience scores improve statewide
for 6.5 million patients

Virtually all physician groups in network health plans
now engaged in quality improvement

Quotes

Dr. Wells Shoemaker
CQC Steering
Committee Co-chair

"The other thing that I see, as a regular visitor, is the emergence of a clinical leadership culture among the nurses, doctors, and quality improvement personnel who participate.  The CQC has provided a crucible for sharing of knowledge and strategies and it has given 'lift' to people with the brains and conviction to make things work better.  It's hard to measure this investment in the usual business terms, but I think it will have a generation of effects that we'll trace back to 2007."

How 2011 CQC Collaborative Participants Improved Care

The Meteor Program

The Chronic Care Collaborative

The Complex Care Action Community

Avoid Readmissions Through Collaboration

 

2007-2010 Results

Case Study on How Facey Improved Patient Experience

Overview with Facey's COO
Roles of the physician leaders
Physician communication techniques
Wrap-up