Throughout 2024 and 2025, the LHPC Institute and California Safety Net Institute (SNI) have partnered together to advance a shared mission — to strengthen relationships between local plans and public health care systems and to drive forward the work to improve quality of care and patient outcomes.

Our partnership has yielded opportunities for plan and system quality leaders to share information, ideas and insights, and to lay the groundwork for building enduring partnerships and engage in collaborative efforts. Through an in-person convening, virtual workshop, helpful resources and more, we have set the stage for plans and systems to achieve better quality together.

Learn more about our work together and the benefits of collaboration via the following educational resources:

• NEW! Case Study: Local Plan-PHS Data Alignment & Collaboration Drives Improvement in Blood Pressure Outcomes
  The LHPC Institute and SNI have developed a new resource that showcases how close collaboration around data exchange and alignment between local plans and public health care systems (PHS) can lead to significant improvements in patient outcomes.
   
• Q&A with LHPC and SNI
  LHPC CEO Linnea Koopmans and SNI Executive Director Giovanna Guiliani discuss the promise and power of collaboration, as well as the risks for plans, systems and patients when working in silos.
   
• Quick Reference Guide: Public Health Care System and Local Health Plan Collaboration
  The guide offers early examples of plan-system partnerships and a summary of the key initiatives and policies that drive quality improvement at plans and systems. The guide also shows the increase in overlapping quality measures across the Medi-Cal Accountability Set (MCAS) and Quality Incentive Pool (QIP).
   
• Issue Brief: Partnering to Improve Quality of Care
  The brief explores the growing need and value of plan-system collaboration and the positive impact on quality and patient outcomes.