The Bay Area Performance Improvement Network (BAPIN) was founded in 2011 to connect healthcare performance improvement professionals in the Bay Area through networking events, education, and information sharing. BAPIN has grown to over 300 members from over 100 organizations, including major health systems, hospitals, and consulting companies. The organization hosts various events like educational talks, workshops, and social mixers to support its mission of continuous healthcare improvement through collaboration between professionals in the field.

1. About the
Bay Area Performance
Improvement Network
February 2015

2. Mission
Bridging leaders of healthcare
improvement in the Bay Area

3. Founding Vision
We are a community of professionals that
support the continuous improvement of
healthcare in the Bay Area
As more local healthcare organizations embrace Performance Improvement as a
key strategy, the number of healthcare performance improvement
professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area is on the rise. This network
provides an opportunity to meet, interact with, and learn from other PI
professionals and leaders from healthcare organizations throughout the Bay
Area. We are a community which supports the continuous improvement of
Bay Area healthcare.

4. Founding Objectives
 Meeting each other
 Networking
 Sharing challenges
 Developing thought partners
 Sharing education
 Career development
 Job connections

5. Historic View
 November 2011 – Founded
 February 2012 – Inaugural Event (sponsored by the
Society for Health Systems of the Institute of
Industrial Engineers)
 In 2012 – 5 events held
 In 2013 – 3 events held
 May 2013 – Incorporated as a Nonprofit Public Benefit
Corporation
 February 2014 – First Executive Performance
Improvement Summit held
 May 2014 – Received 501(c)(3) tax exemption
 In 2014 – 6 events held
 In 2015 – 1 event held, 5 more planned

6. Current Stats (Feb. 2015)
 319 members
 15 events held
 185 LinkedIn group members
 114 organizations represented, including:
◦ 11 major health systems
◦ 16 hospitals
◦ 6 medical groups
◦ 6 community health services
◦ 5 health plans
◦ 22 consulting companies
◦ 11 colleges and universities

7. Major Health Systems
 Alameda Health System
 Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
 Dignity Health
 John Muir Health
 Kaiser Permanente
 NorthBay Healthcare
 Stanford Health Care
 Sutter Health
 UC Davis Health System
 UCSF Medical Center
 VA Palo Alto Health Care System

8. Sample of Events
 Educational Evenings: networking time followed by a
presentation
◦ Transforming to a Lean Management System
◦ Breaking New Ground: Process Innovation at UCSF Medical
Center’s Mission Bay Campus
◦ Lean Healthcare: To Japan & Back Again
 Workshops: half-day or full-day of education on a focused
topic
◦ Using Quality Control Charts in Healthcare
◦ Using Computer Simulation to Improve Healthcare
 Social Mixers: non-hosted gatherings purely for building
bonds among healthcare performance improvement
professionals

9. Sample of Speakers
 Dr. James Benneyan, Executive Director, Healthcare
Systems Engineering Institute, Northeastern
University
 Dennis Deas, Senior Director of Healthcare
Performance, Kaiser Permanente
 Mark Graban, Author of Lean Hospitals
 Brian Herriot, Director, Mission Bay Operations
Planning, UCSF Medical Center
 Ed Kopetsky, CIO, Packard Children’s Hospital
 Anna Roth, CEO, Contra Costa County Medical Center
 Brad Toussaint, VP of Management Systems, Packard
Children’s Hospital
 Craig Vercruysse, Chief Process Officer, Sutter Health
West Bay Region

10. Still To Come in 2015
 Evening Educational Events (one
complete, one-two still to come)
 Second Annual Executive Performance
Improvement Summit
 BAPIN Social Mixers (x3)
 …Hopefully more

11. Three Noteworthy Data Points
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319
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Nov 2011 Feb 2012 Feb 2015
Members
Founded
Inaugural
Event
Today

12. Contacts
Steve Escamilla
steve.escamilla@gmail.com
Maj-Britt Llewellyn
llewellm@yahoo.com
Jennifer Taylor
jennifer.taylor@ucsf.edu
Website
http://www.bapin.org