Collaboration.

Innovation.

Impact.

Partners believes that today's healthcare and social services need to change and improve in fundamental ways so that they work better for all of us.

Towards this goal, Partners brings about positive change in the delivery of healthcare and social services through:

Collaboration with community-based organizations and public and private funders to create these fundamental changes.
Innovation in Partners' programs and projects that demonstrate and prove the effectiveness of these new strategies.
High-Impact Results Partners' work has produced replicable models of care that others across the country have adopted.

National & Regional Innovations

First of four national demonstration sites to lead expansion of Partners' evidence-based Medication Management Improvement System (MMIS). (more)

Partners and Other Healthcare Leaders Join Public Discussion on Medi-Cal and Health Care Reform with Principles for Effective HealthCare Reform as a First Step. (more)

Partners in Care Establishes the California Health Innovation Center (sm) (CHIC sm): The Center creates and encourages local and statewide partnerships aimed at redirecting health and community resources using tested programs... (more)

June Simmons, president and CEO of Partners in Care, joins the Institute for Health Care Improvement's (IHI) team supporting the innovative Triple Aim Initiative.

News....

Richard A. Norling, Chief of Premier, Inc. Named Partners in Care 2009 Mathies Award Honoree for Vision & Excellence in Healthcare Leadership. Will Be Honored May 4, 2009

Partners' Launches “Latino Depression Awareness Campaign For Older Adults, Their Families and Caregivers” (listen/view material)

Partners in Care Foundation and California Association of Physician Groups Collaborate to Accelerate the Transformation of Healthcare for Older Adults with Chronic Conditions by Targeting Primary Care Referrals

Partners' Institute for Change Research Director, Susan M. Enguidanos, PhD, Presents at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Research Seminar: Home Based Palliative Care: Improved Patient Care at Lower Cost

National Council on Aging Honors Partners in Care Foundation for Exceptional Service

Partners in Care Institute for Change Presents Findings to California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG): First Rigorous Study on Effectiveness of In-Home, Community Based Palliative Care

Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina G. Carbonell Addresses 2008 Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging in Washington, D.C. with June Simmons, CEO Partners in Care, and Co-Presenter of "Aging Services Network and the Future of Long-Term Care"

The Institute for Change/Research Center

Research to real world, evidence-based practice change.

Our expertise in project research, program and services development, evaluation and dissemination are helping make essential advances in the delivery and transformation of healthcare and social services.

Our award-winning projects have led to nationally recognized and replicated models of care.

Pilot Projects: Conceive new ideas and conduct exploratory studies.

Needs Assessment and Consultation: Guidance, planning and project development.

Research and Evaluation Projects: Randomized control trials, comparison design and program. evaluation

Dissemination and Replication: Moving research to practice.