California Right Care Initiative

California Right Care Initiative Driving down heart attacks and strokes collaboratively for 15 years @ Rightcare.berkeley.edu

The California Right Care Initiative’s goal is to apply scientific evidence and outcomes improvement strategies to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality among Californians. The effort started with a focus on California’s 25 million managed health plan enrollees, and has now opened up its efforts to spread best practices to all California medical directors, pharmacy directors and quality improvement directors regardless of delivery system to benefit as many patients as possible. The California Department of Managed Healthcare (DMHC) publicly launched the Right Care Initiative with NCQA and the Deans of the UC Berkeley and UCLA Schools of Public Health in March 2008 at the first annual Clinical Quality Improvement Leadership Summit. The Right Care Initiative’s implementation actions include the annual statewide Right Care summit, cardiovascular disease and diabetes research at UC Berkeley, and community-focused efforts to reach Right Care Initiative’s goals in LA, Sacramento, and San Diego through the monthly University of Best Practices consortium.

09/26/2022

Tomorrow, Tues. 9.27.22, 4-6 pm, learn about evolving heart health innovations for elders. Register at RighCare.Berkeley.edu

Comprehensive Medication Management by clinical pharmacists saves lives and $, while improving provider satisfaction. L...
04/27/2022

Comprehensive Medication Management by clinical pharmacists saves lives and $, while improving provider satisfaction. Leaders from UC Davis, Blue Shield, the VA and USC share the facts during our Right Care Virtual University of Best Practices. To your Health! Enjoy this video & share please.

On Tuesday, April 26th, we learned about the power of adding clinical pharmacists to the care team for both significantly enhancing patient outcomes and redu...

Please get vaccinated to stop dangerous variants from killing more people. Our health workers & their families are put a...
08/14/2021

Please get vaccinated to stop dangerous variants from killing more people. Our health workers & their families are put at grave risk from the unvaccinated & are overwhelmed & exhausted.

Experts stress testing, vaccination amid delta surge

Surgeon General VADM Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., issued a Call to Action urging Americans to recognize and address hy...
10/15/2020

Surgeon General VADM Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., issued a Call to Action urging Americans to recognize and address hypertension control as a national public health priority. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension provides strategies for those on the frontlines of health care and public health to address this costly, dangerous and far too common chronic health condition.

Link:https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/docs/SG-CTA-HTN-Control-Report.pdf

Patients with pre-existing CVD who have contracted COVID-19 are about 10% more likely to die, compared to only 1% of oth...
04/16/2020

Patients with pre-existing CVD who have contracted COVID-19 are about 10% more likely to die, compared to only 1% of otherwise healthy patients. Currently, there are no special protocols for higher-risk cardiac patients to prevent COVID-19 exposure. These individuals should be especially careful to follow the CDC recommendations, including frequent hand washing and social distancing!

Initial investigation into COVID-19 focused on its respiratory effects, but a more recent report describes serious cardiovascular complications in people with pre-existing heart disease. How does this underlying condition increase risk for these people?

Please join us at 12PM today for our Virtual University of Best Practices. We will have healthcare leaders across Califo...
04/13/2020

Please join us at 12PM today for our Virtual University of Best Practices. We will have healthcare leaders across California present on the Cardiovascular Aspects of COVID-19 & Including Pharmacist on the Care Team. We will conclude our meeting with Health System Perspectives on COVID-19.

You can view the live stream here:

Progress!
04/07/2020

Progress!

03/24/2020

Without social distancing, one infected person can infect 20,000 people within 4 to 6 weeks. If we stop interacting, the virus cannot spread person to person and we have a chance to stop it according to the physician leadership of Sutter Health, one of the largest and most sophisticated health systems in the country. Please take the time to watch this video filled with helpful tips for you, your family, and friends.

An Open Letter from M.D.s By: Warren Browner, M.D., MPH and Stephen Lockhart, M.D., PhDAs physicians, we want you to know why we are so concerned about the novel coronavirus/COVID-19. Some of you may have heard that it’s a minor inconvenience, like a bad cold. So far, that’s true for the majorit...

Let's take care of our hearts this Valentine's Day by taking the Valentine's Pledge to make healthy changes in our daily...
02/14/2020

Let's take care of our hearts this Valentine's Day by taking the Valentine's Pledge to make healthy changes in our daily lives! Check out this article we published today in the San Jose Mercury News!

A Valentine’s Day pledge: Let’s all work to prevent heart attacks and strokes starting at home.

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