RUHS leaders accept the Quality Leader Award in Care Redesign at the CAPH/SNI Annual Conference in Napa, California. Valley News/Courtesy photo
At their annual conference in Napa, California’s leading advocacy group for public hospital systems recognized Riverside University Health System for improving patient access during the COVID-19 pandemic.The California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems and the California Health Care Safety Net Institute named RUHS as one of six Quality Leaders Award recipients in the state for implementing performance improvements in its Community Health Centers.In April 2020, as the pandemic was in full swing, RUHS clinics began working in partnership with Inland Empire Health Plan to standardize internal processes in RUHS’s 13 CHCs across Riverside County, which provide care to nearly 78,000 residents. Prior to standardization, each CHC conducted their morning meetings (calle
