Past Events

Sept. 17 | Hear from care teams advancing behavioral health integration for children and adolescents. This session highlights promising models and practical solutions shared through CQC’s collaborative learning exchange.

Aug. 20 | Recording Now Available | Hear how four organizations serving Medi-Cal patients in Los Angeles advanced equity through a community-based coaching model. This session highlights practical QI strategies from CQC’s EQuIP-LA initiative.

CalHIVE BHI collaborative members gathered for the third annual convening on May 13, 2025 to focus on spreading and sustaining their integrated programs.

This highly interactive training provides a deep dive into an equity-centered approach to quality improvement to support practices, care teams, coaches and transformation specialists in designing and implementing disparities-reduction projects.

The EQuIP-LA Initiative’s final convening brought together participants and partners to share reflections on their transformation journeys, celebrate the many connections formed and recognize the achievement of our North Star.

The California Quality Collaborative’s first annual network convening brings together a diverse group of stakeholders to align initiatives and develop […]

The California Quality Collaborative’s Behavioral Health Integration Implementation Webinar Series is a three-part webinar series for health care organizations planning and implementing behavioral health integration.

The California Quality Collaborative’s 2024 Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA County Annual Convening is a day of insightful discussions, collaborative activities and innovative thinking aimed at enhancing health care quality and sustainability for improvement collaborative participants.

The California Quality Collaborative’s Behavioral Health Integration Financing Convening brings together stakeholders to explore findings from statewide interviews on sustainable payment practices and brainstorm improvement opportunities for integrating behavioral health into primary care. 

Join PBGH and our employer members in San Antonio, Texas on July 31, 2024, for the pre-launch of PBGH’s groundbreaking System of Excellence coming to Texas in 2025.

The California Quality Collaborative’s 2024 California Advanced Primary Care Initiative Annual Convening brings together initiative participants for a day of insightful discussions and innovative thinking around advanced primary care in California.

The California Quality Collaborative’s 2024 Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA County Annual Convening is a day of insightful discussions, collaborative activities and innovative thinking aimed at enhancing health care quality and sustainability for improvement collaborative participants.

BHI-CYCLE is a nine-month learning collaborative beginning October 2024 that will bring together organizations experienced in integrating behavioral health services into primary care for children and youth. ​

The California Quality Collaborative’s CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration Annual Convening is a two-day learning and networking session for improvement collaborative participants.

The California Quality Collaborative’s Medi-Cal Incentive Measure Alignment Roundtable brings together representatives of Los Angeles’ managed care plans, medical groups, independent physician associations and other invited guests to discuss the current Medi-Cal incentive landscape within Los Angeles County, identify areas for alignment and standardization across participants and foster collaboration between stakeholders.

In honor of March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, CQC hosted a webinar to address disparities in colorectal cancer screening and treatment.

In partnership with the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, the California Quality Collaborative is hosting quarterly virtual peer group meetings for individuals working to integrate behavioral health care into the primary care setting in California.

Join this CQC webinar to hear results and stakeholder reactions to the California Advanced Primary Care Measurement Pilot and explore the best next steps for the California health care system.

This free, six-part virtual Learning Series will help hospital leaders develop a strategy to strengthen their relationships with freestanding birth centers within their communities or establish a new birth center.

The California Quality Collaborative’s Improving Specialty Care Access Roundtable brings together stakeholders to discuss potential opportunities, share ongoing initiatives and identify ways to collaborative to improve access and equity to specialty care in Northern California.

Rapid data exchange within the health care delivery system is integral to achieving equitable, patient-centered care for all Californians.

Integrating behavioral health into primary care is essential for providers looking to deliver patient-centered, high-quality and whole-person care. Yet many health care organizations struggle with knowing where to begin.

The CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration Improvement Collaborative is a three-year program launched in July 2023 and will focus on supporting California based provider organizations as they integrate behavioral health services into their primary care practices.

This webinar highlighted the outcomes of the CalHIVE Network, a two-year improvement collaborative focused on improving care for people with diabetes and asthma by maximizing the use of virtual care tools.

A panel of experts will discuss the importance of improving the collection and use of race, ethnicity and language (REaL) data and how that data can help address health disparities.

Hear on-the-ground lessons around behavioral health integration, and understand opportunities around effective virtual care.

A webinar describing the next step in California’s journey to scale high quality, efficient and patient-centered primary care, also known as Advanced Primary Care (APC).

Part of our ongoing Accelerated Integrated Care Series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood and have been linked to more than 40 negative health conditions.

Today, telehealth is more accepted by patients, providers and plans, but there may be disparities in how under-represented patients experience virtual care.

During this California Quality Collaborative webinar, the California Department of Public Health will share statewide data trends regarding catch-up pediatric immunizations.

Employers know that primary care is essential to a healthy workforce and employees’ access to a high-value health care system.

In this meeting, attendees shared challenges and questions related to depression screening at their organizations, and identified a next step they could apply at their own organizations.

In this webinar, we were joined by David Ford of the California Medical Association as presenters shared a framework to strategically plan around telehealth and virtual care.

Large employers and primary care doctors align on the attributes of high-quality primary care.

Joint webinar with the California Medical Association (CMA) where attendees heard from clinician speakers who offered technology, workflow, and documentation improvements tested and adopted in virtual and hybrid care settings.

We learned what primary care practices can do to improve the health of pregnant individuals.

Second webinar in Accelerating Integrated care series, attendees learned why measuring behavioral health screening and access is important.

Results from a Patient Assessment Survey (PAS) from a study of 35,000 patients across California were shared and discussion about how organizations can use data to help identify populations that need additional mental health support.

Attendees discussed opportunities and identified challenges in sustaining virtual chronic disease care, and heard how participation in our CalHIVE Network can improve telehealth operations.

Melora Simon, Dr. Tiffany Nelson, and Julie Fortune discuss the findings highlighted in the CQC authored, CHCF Issue Brief, “Weaving Together Mental and Physical Health Care Outside the Safety Net.”

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, small practices and IPAs made remarkable progress implementing and expanding telehealth in a very short timeframe, providing critical care to their patients.

We were joined by Carol Yarbrough, Business Operations Manager at UCSF’s Telehealth Resource Center and Dr. Subash, Fellow at UCSF’s Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Informatics.Summary is also available to view.

We were joined by Dr. Yumi Taylor, Linette Fung, and Robert Scrase of Tera by Sutter Health. Tera delivers high-quality, patient-centered care, 95% virtually.

We heard from two IPA leaders how they are supporting small and independent physicians to adopt and spread telehealth.

Share and learn webinar for IPA leaders who support small and independent physicians.

The Practice Transformation Initiative (PTI) was a four-year initiative that engaged 4,800 clinicians statewide contracted with provider organizations to improve measures of cost, quality and patient experience.

In 2010-2011, the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC), an organization that identifies, develops, tests and disseminates innovations to improve primary care, conducted an intensive study on existing high performing practices and clinics to identify similarities in how they deliver primary care.

In the second of CQC’s “Best Practices in Oncology” webinar series, guest speaker, Mark Pegram, MD, from the Standford School of Medicine, discusses how the availability of new molecular approaches allow us to identify vast numbers of different genetic alterations in each malignancy enabling oncologist to employ biomarkers for optimization of cancer patients’ treatment.

In the fourth of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Redwing Keyssar, RN, of Jewish Family & Children’s Services discusses the difference between hospice and palliative care and “normalizing” the conversation about serious illness.

Sameer Amin, MD, of HealthCare Partners presents on appropriate use and innovations in interventional cardiology, particularly on the medical and interventional treatment of coronary artery and valvular disease.

In the third of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Nick Bott, PsyD, of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) discusses challenges of diagnosis, caregiving, and hospitalization for persons with dementia and how high quality care can reduce costs.

Menacham Wakslak, MD, of The Heart Group presents on electrophysiology disorders and the medical and interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia, and implanted cardiac devices.

In the second of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Judith Hibbard, PhD, MPH, Professor of Health Policy at the University of Oregon, discusses interventions that increase patient activation, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce health care costs.

Sameer Amin, MD, of HealthCare Partners presents on guideline-based management of congestive heart failure, recent advancements, and the development of programs for improved outcomes.

In the first of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Laurie Lockert, MS, LPC, discusses how to assist people impacted by adverse childhood experiences and avoid burnout and cynicism in clinical staff.

High Value Evaluation of Chest Pain pdf

CQC partners with Manifest MedEx to present on utilizing direct notifications for patient encounters at hospitals to improve coordination of care and reduce unnecessary utilization.