The QI Chat Room

This episode tackles a challenge many health centers face: how to truly integrate nutrition into whole‑person care. We’re joined by partners from Santa Rosa Community Health and the Center for Well‑Being, who are working together to embed nutrition services into clinical care in practical, sustainable ways that work for both patients and care teams. The conversation highlights what their model loo...

In this episode, we explore the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) within Federally Qualified Health Centers and how Marin Community Clinics partnered with Aliados Health to design and launch their CHW pilot in response to the Medi-Cal CHW Benefit limitations on FQHCs. This podcast episode was made possible by funding from UCLA/UCFS ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN). .

In this episode, we discuss a major step forward in cervical cancer screening—HPV self-swab testing—and how Santa Rosa Community Health is using it to expand access and equity for patients who have struggled with traditional Pap smears.

In this episode, we sit down with Marin Community Clinic's (MCC)quality improvement team and discuss their success in increasing breast and colorectal cancer screening rates. Join us to learn more about MCC's strategic interventions to achieve top performance in breast and colorectal cancer screenings

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Josette Rivera, a distinguished professor of Medicine and a clinician educator at the renowned UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Kathryn Stambaugh, MPH,MBA, Geriatric Services Director from LifeLong Medical Care also joins us to share their journey on becoming an IHI Level 1 recognized Age Friendly Health System. Join us as we discuss Aliados Health’s collaboration...

This episode features a prenatal immunization discussion with an expert panel from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). It explores the impactful prenatal immunization multi-year project made possible by funding from CDPH and in partnership with Aliados Health and its member health centers. Hear about efforts to boost prenatal immunization rates and lead the charge in enhancing mater...

Street medicine takes health services on the road, creating access outside of clinic walls to serve populations experiencing homelessness and other barriers to care. In this episode, we are introduced to LifeLong Medical Care's Street Dentistry program and the Botanical Bus's Mobile Herb Clinic, providing dental and homeopathic services to unhoused and migrant communities.

Aliados Health Sr. Program Managers Keira Dagy & Jennifer Inden talk with Health Centers about Patient Telehealth survey results, what the data tells them, and what should be taken into consideration in molding best practices when it comes to implementing a sustainable Virtual Care program.

First 5 Contra Costa is leading the local effort to implement Help Me Grow, a system of coordination used nationally to connect children to the early screening and community services they need to thrive. The HMG model has been implemented throughout the U.S. and in half of California’s counties. First 5 Contra Costa, the Contra Costa Crisis Center, and La Clinica de la Raza came together to develo...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reforms are critical and challenging. CommuniCare Health Centers strives to be humble and learn from their staff and the communities they serve, as well as commit to their own development in unlearning patriarchal, heterosexist, white-supremist systems, while learning anti-racism best practices in trauma informed care. This episode features CommuniCare’s Dr. Suzann...

Today’s episode features a street medicine conversation with our panel from CommuniCare Health Centers in Yolo County, Ritter Center in Marin County, and Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center in Solano County. According to the Street Medicine Institute, street medicine is the provision of health care directly to those living and sleeping on the streets through mobile services such as walking te...

Join a conversation between Aliados Health's Population Health Department Director, Michelle Rosaschi, and Partnership Health Plan of California's Director of Care Coordination, Katherine Barresi, as they discuss the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Enhance Care Management or ECM program.

Max Perrey in conversation with Rebecca Boyd Anderson, Director of Population Health for Partnership Health Plan celebrates their 2 year anniversary.

In honor of Black History Month, Dr. Mohamed A. Jalloh, Pharm. D., BCPS, Assistant Professor of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at Touro University California College of Pharmacy and Ambulatory Care Specialist at OLE Health Pharmacy Residency Program, is speaking on the role of race in medicine and the impact of race corrections in clinical algorithms. This podcast is inspired by the NEJM arti...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted social inequities in health. In response, the American Heart Association (AHA) is launching a new evidence-based, community-driven effort to reduce hypertension. The National Hypertension Control Initiative (NHCI) seeks to improve health care and save lives in at-risk communities, which are most affected by hypertension and COVID-19. Listen in as...

This episode features our host Max Perrey in conversation with Eli White and Adam Unger of Covered California. Topics explored include how to protect your health, how to apply for health insurance coverage if you are uninsured, and what's new for those who are already insured.  

Building with Community to Advance Health Equity: How to Implement a CIE In this final CIE podcast series episode, join Karis Grounds, Vice President of Health and Community Impact of 211/CIE San Diego, and Sheena Nahm McKinlay, VP of Research & Development of Health Leads as they discuss how to implement a CIE, including the key components of day-to-day operations.

Building with Community to Advance Health Equity: Authentic Community Engagement Listen in as Brenda Aguilera, Director of Community Transformation, Para Los Niños and Carlos Arceo, Program Manager, Para Los Niños passionately discuss the purpose of authentic partnership with the community to ensure the conditions created are addressed at the roots and ensure that community is involved, not just i...

This episode features our host Max Perrey in conversation with Rocio Rodriguez, Director of Sonoma County COAD, Tom Welch, Deputy Fire Chief of Operations for the Southern Marin Fire District and Melinda Rivera, Local Public Affairs Specialist for PG&E for Sonoma and Lake Counties. Topics include how best health centers, their staff and patients can best prepare for wildfire season in Northern Cal...

This episode is dedicated to increasing public awareness of CalFresh, which helps to improve access to healthy and nutritious foods. QI Chat Room Guest Host Yesenia Mendoza, Aliados Health CalFresh Program Manager, is in conversation with CalFresh representatives from Sonoma, Marin, and Alameda counties. This includes Rigoberto Morales Mendoza, Bank Food Connections Supervisor at the Redwood Empir...

Building with Community to Advance Health Equity: What is a CIE? Many communities across the country are considering the implementation of Community Information Exchanges, a model established by 211 San Diego, to advance community health. Local leaders in Marin, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties are exploring the design of equity-anchored CIE-inspired networks with the support of Heal...

This episode features Max Perrey who is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Aliados Health. Max will be interviewing our two guest speakers, Dr. Mike Witte, Chief Medical Officer at the California Primary Care Association, and Cindy Keltner, Director of Transformation at the California Primary Care Association. The topic for today’s session is Covid Telehealth Reflection & Telehea...

This episode features Dr. Joshua Weil of Kaiser Santa Rosa and the Jewish Community Free Clinic and Dr. Deborah Roberts from the Jewish Community Free Clinic who discuss Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among staff and patients.

This episode features speakers from the Northern California Center for Well-Being, Carium, and Santa Rosa Community Health who will talk about their work with Community Health Workers (or CHWs) and partnerships that leverage this work.

Last week was Food Champion Week at Aliados Health. We hosted a Food Champion Roundtable event, and taped two podcast episodes related to food and nutrition. This is the second podcast episode and features Edye Kuyper from CommuniCare Health Centers. Edye Kuyper manages CommuniCare Health Centers’ food programs that connect patients with healthy food and with each other in order to prevent and man...