Improving Access: UCSD at Home Program | Improvement Excellence Awards 2023

The UCSD at Home – Emergency Department to Home Program ensures that patients leaving the emergency departments at UC San Diego Health receive care that is coordinated by utilizing an interdisciplinary care team approach.

As part of the program, case management teams collaborate in real time with population health, home health and physicians to identify eligible patients for discharge and follow-up care that is conducted at their home.

UCSD at Home – Emergency Department to Home Program also received the Crowd Vote award and was the 2023 Overall Grand Prize Winner.

Leaders at UC San Diego Health recently celebrated the institution’s inaugural Improvement Excellence Awards ceremony. The event recognized and celebrated the work of individuals and teams whose improvement projects made a positive impact on UC San Diego Health’s strategic goals and patient care.

0:00 Improvement Excellence Awards 2023
0:10 Lindsey Pierce - introduction
0:40 Improving access
1:04 Program impact
1:30 Interdisciplinary approach