UCSF Health and the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value (CHV) sponsors awards of up to $50,000 for one year to faculty and staff for collaborative projects that can be implemented to reduce waste and lower health care costs while maintaining or improving health at UCSF Health, which consists of UCSF Medical Center, Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, and the UCSF faculty practice group and ambulatory clinics.
We invite the submission of any proposal that improves healthcare value at UCSF Health. UCSF Health is also particularly interested in proposals that address value improvement opportunities in one of the below areas. All submissions must have a plan to evaluate and improve health equity:
- Improve Hospital Throughput and Reduce Excess Inpatient Bed Days
- Improve Outpatient, Inpatient, or Perioperative Clinical Access
- Reduce Hospital Acquired Conditions and Infections
- Reduce Unnecessary Testing
- Jan 22 - Mar 1 - Project Contest 1st Round
Proposal Submission Deadline
Proposal submissions due by 5pm | Fri., March 1, 2024
- Projects with a projected direct cost savings of greater than $250,000 are more likely to be selected (click on the "Read important information about this forum" link on the home page to see more criteria for winning).
- The Center for Healthcare Value will offer “Office Hours” to answer questions and provide guidance on cost analysis. To schedule a 25 minute Zoom meeting, please email Brian.Holt@ucsf.edu.
During this time, project teams should:
- Build your core team and extended stakeholders interested in this problem.
- Browse proposals and comment to improve others' proposal.
- Review comments and provide additional information if necessary.
- Mar 11 - 2nd Round Finalists Announced
- 2nd Round Finalists announced on March 11th, 2024
- Proposal submissions are reviewed.
- Selected finalists will be invited to proceed to the Optimization Phase.
- Mar 11 - Mar 29: 2nd Round Finalists Optimization Phase
Final updates to 2nd round proposals must be complete before 5pm | Fri., March 29th, 2024
During this time, project teams should:
- Optimize your proposal
- Stay on top of OpenProposal comments, answer questions, and ask new ones!
- Continue to build your core team and extended stakeholders interested in this problem
- Obtain sign-off from the Executive Sponsor(s)
- Apr 15 - Apr 29: Executive Committee Review of 2nd Round Submissions
- Finalist proposals are reviewed.
- May 6: FY25 Caring WiselyTM $50K Project Awards Announced
Winners will be announced on Mon., May 6, 2024