About the CARE Collaborative
CPQCC will launch the CARE Collaborative in 2025!
Leveraging CPQCC’s expertise in quality improvement, we plan to address unmet health-related social needs, then disseminate our work widely to California’s NICUs as well as other state and national perinatal collaboratives. The proposed framework for local implementation begins with family voices, community partners and multidisciplinary NICU teams, then will proceed to selecting and adapting a screening tool, developing a community resource guide, and finally developing PDSAs to integrate practices within NICU workflows, increase the quality of referrals and improve resource navigation.
Please join us in creating partnerships by engaging key stakeholders to enhance the capacity to address NICU families’ complex and drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes. Email info@cpqcc.org to join!
CARE Co-Directors
| Ashwini Lakshmanan, MD, MS, MPH | Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine |
| Courtney Breault, RN, MS, CPHQ | CPQCC |
| Jochen Profit, MD, MPH | CPQCC |
| Kurlen Payton, MD | Cedars Sinai |
CARE Core Collaborative Team
| Erika Cordova Ramos, MD | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine and Clinical Neonatologist at Boston Medical Center | Faculty Panelist |
| Carolina Gazca, LCSW | Clinical Social Worker/Therapist, Kaiser Permanente | Faculty Panelist |
| Diana Rogosa | NICU Parent Liaison UCSF Benioff SF | Faculty Panelist |
| Alex Liang | Project Coordinator, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine | Faculty Panelist |
| Susan Hintz, MD, MS | HRIF Medical Director, CPQCC and Stanford University School of Medicine | HRIF Expert Clinician |
| Kayla Karvonen, MD | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics UCSF Mission Bay | Improvement Support Lead |
| Sheila Razdan, MD, MPH | Attending Neonatologist Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine of USC | Improvement Support Lead |
| Ryan Brewster, MD | NICU Fellow, Stanford Medicine School of Medicine | Support Lead |
| Sunita Hassamal, MD, MA, FACP | Public Health Medical Officer III, Integrated Systems of Care Division, California Department of Health Care Services | Key Advisor |
| Kimberly Novod, MPA | Founder & Executive Director Saul's Light | Key Advisor |
| Jean Leclerc Raphael, MD, MPH | Professor, Pediatrics-Academic General Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas | Key Advisor |
| Rupalee Patel,DNP, MS, BSN,C-PNP, C-PHN,IBCLC | Director Bridge Program, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center | Key Advisor |
| Zea Malawa, MD, MPH | Director of Expecting Justice and the Abundant Birth Project. San Francisco Department of Public Health. | Key Advisor |
| Anjelica Montano Health Program, MDP | Specialist II/Title V Child and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Coordinator Community Resilience and Support Section Center of Family Health/Maternal Child and Adolescent Branch California Department of Public Health | Key Advisor |
| Cheryl Walker, MD | Medical Director & Medical Policy Branch Chief Integrated Systems of Care Division California Department of Health Care Services | Key Advisor |
| Collaborative Prework |
December 2023: Initial Topic Selection October 2024-May 2025: Invite and Meet with Core Planning Group |
| Preparation/Enrollment |
June-September 2025: Sites Register February 2025-Ongoing: Bi-weekly Faculty Panel Meetings July 2025: Site Info Session August-October 2025: Sites complete pre-work (baseline data collection and online QI education course) |
| Collaborative (Active Phase & Sustainability)* |
October/November 2025: Collaborative Launch /Learning Session #1 December 2025-September 2026: Monthly virtual site meeting March 2026: Learning Session #2 October 2026: Closing Meeting /Learning Session #3 March 2027: Learning Session #4 October 2027: Wrap Up Session |