Table 1.
Building Block Element | Example |
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Engaged leadership | Primary care service lines led by executive medical and administrative/nursing directors teams, regular staff and clinician meetings, Lean management including daily huddles, formal leadership training for some clinic managers |
Data-driven improvement | Performance dashboards regularly provided at the clinic and individual PCC levels, transparent posting of dashboards in clinics |
Empanelment | All patients formally empaneled with a PCC, panel sizes computed for each PCC and adjusted for patient complexity, panel size targets adjusted for clinical FTE effort |
Team-based care | Behavioral health integration or coordination, scribes for some PCCs, complex care teams, pharmacists at some sites |
Patient-team partnership | Patient advisory councils at most clinics |
Population management | Registries and panel management to close preventive and chronic care gaps |
Prompt access to care | Call centers, modified scheduling templates to improve access, active management of new patient appointment scheduling |
FTE = full-time equivalent; PCC = primary care clinician; SFHN = San Francisco Health Network; UCSF = University of California San Francisco.