Programs & Partnerships

Explore programs and partnerships designed to help hospitals integrate emergency care with broader community health initiatives.

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Social Emergency Medicine and EMS

Colorado Social Emergency Medicine Collaborative

The Levitt Center and the Colorado Social Emergency Medicine Collaborative (“CSEMC”) have joined forces to expand the practice of social emergency medicine (SEM) to a broader health community, including hospitals, community partners, social workers, emergency services providers and other stakeholders in Colorado and California.
Equity in Emergency Care

SEMinal Study – Online Social Emergency Medicine Curriculum

Explore new approaches to old problems with an understanding that many of the diseases we treat are merely symptoms of a greater societal disease.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

HEAL Initiative Partnership with Stanford Medicine

The Levitt Center is proud to continue our commitment to workforce diversitythrough our collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Office of Diversity in MedicalEducation (ODME), and the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) as part of theHealthcare Education, Access and Leadership (HEAL) initiative generouslysupported by the Gilead Foundation.
Improving Patient Care in the ED

Data Bridge Project To Help Health and Social Entities Safely Share Data

The Levitt Center and Georgetown Massive Data Institute are working together on Data Bridge, a project to bring secure and open source data sharing software to social emergency medicine patients, particularly those experiencing homelessness. Our first use case is to enable government and nonprofit agencies to exchange data to deliver CalAIM services.
Equity in Emergency Care

Social Emergency Medicine Research Diversity Externship

Our externship program helps to foster and increase the diversity of the next generation of social emergency medicine practitioners.
Public Health Screening

FOCUS Prevention Program

Dr. Douglas White, Senior Scientist at the Levitt Center and his great team are continuing their work on emergency department (ED) based screening and HIV prevention with the implementation and expansion of their ED HIV PrEP Program, funded by a Gilead FOCUS grant.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

HOUSED Study

The Levitt Center is leading the HOUSED study, funded by the California Health Care Foundation, to examine ED use patterns among patients facing housing challenges. Phase 1 at Highland Hospital challenges assumptions about when unhoused patients seek care, while future phases will expand social needs screening and integrate national data.
Social Emergency Medicine and EMS

Improving EMS Care for Family and Patients Near the End-of-Life

Dr. Amelia Breyre’s work on EMS care for patients with serious illness in the out-of-hospital setting. Focusing to improve care in communities that are typically marginalized in their access to hospice and palliative care.
Improving Patient Care in the ED

Improving Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

Program to improve palliative care for ED patients focusing on a sustainable palliative care curriculum to ensure emergency medicine residents have the necessary tools to help the most vulnerable patients and their families.
Substance Use and the Emergency Department

Opioid Use Disorder Retrospective Study

The Levitt Center’s opioid treatment program, launched through Dr. Herring’s EDBRIDGE grant, has expanded to over 52 California hospitals and is now the focus of a large retrospective study on ED-initiated buprenorphine treatment at Highland Hospital.
Substance Use and the Emergency Department

ED-Bridge: Emergency Buprenorphine Treatment in Emergency Departments

Dr. Andrew Herring’s ED-BRIDGE program, funded by SAMHSA, integrated emergency departments into California’s MAT Expansion Project, providing 24/7 access to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder and later evolving into CA-Bridge.
Substance Use and the Emergency Department

Environmental Drinking Contexts & Intimate Partner Violence

The relationship between alcohol use and intimate partner violence is well-established but little understood. To help move the field forward, the Levitt Center has partnered as a subawardee with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation to perform a mixed-methods study of drinking contexts -- where, when and with whom -- and how such contexts influence partner abuse patterns. This is a five year project, and will involve in-depth interviews of dozens of patients and surveys of hundreds.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Domestic Violence Reporting and Referral Tool

The Levitt Center is evaluating a tablet-based Domestic Violence Reporting and Referral tool that streamlines mandatory reporting and connects victims with law enforcement and advocates.
Public Health Screening

HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Screening and Referral to Treatment

Dr. Doug White and Dr. Erik Anderson are expanding their leading ED-based HIV and HCV screening program across Alameda Health System, integrating it into EPIC to enhance diagnosis, rapid testing, and linkage to care across Alameda County.
Equity in Emergency Care

Social Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference - Inventing Social Emergency Medicine

The Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a consensus conference to establish the intellectual underpinnings and future direction of Social Emergency Medicine.
Public Health Screening

HIV-Tested

The Levitt Center is a subawardee in a multi-center trial led by Denver Health, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Cincinnati to enhance ED-based HIV screening, a strategy pioneered by Dr. Doug White over a decade ago.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

Health Advocates

Health Advocates, a partnership between the Levitt Center and Alameda Health System, connects low-income patients with social, economic, and legal resources to improve health outcomes and reduce emergency room utilization.
Public Health Screening

Hepatitus C Screening and Referral to Treatment

Dr. White and his team have expanded their successful ED-based HIV screening program to include hepatitis C, aiming to identify and connect more patients to curative treatment. Their work has advanced the efficient use of emergency care to detect undiagnosed Hep C in high-risk populations.
Equity in Emergency Care

Highland Health Coach Program

The Health Coach Program trains local youth to support ED patients with diabetes and hypertension through education, follow-ups, and care navigation, with its impact being evaluated in a Levitt Center-led randomized trial.
Substance Use and the Emergency Department

Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Addiction in the Emergency Department

The objective of this project is to increase access to medically assisted treatment of opioid addiction through initiating treatment in the emergency department. The project will pilot a treatment model, proven successful in a controlled academic environment, in an urban region, and share the results in CHCF and peer-reviewed publications.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

Stop Trafficking Now: Ending the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

The Levitt Center collaborates with Bay Area agencies and researchers to improve emergency care for trafficked children and supports statewide policy efforts through the HEAT Institute.
Equity in Emergency Care

The Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnership

Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick secured funding to expand the Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnership, aiming to diversify the health workforce through community collaboration, youth recruitment, trauma-informed care, and standardized best practices.
In Collaboration with Social Welfare

Effects of Racial Segregation on Neighborhood Violent Injury Rates

The Levitt Center, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, conducted a neighborhood-level study in Oakland showing that greater racial and ethnic diversity is linked to lower violent injury rates, particularly in predominantly African American and Hispanic communities.
Substance Use and the Emergency Department

The Pharmaco-Ecology of Gun Violence: A Pilot Investigation

It is a truism that guns and drugs don't mix, but in certain social settings they appear to be inextricable. This small exploratory study, in collaboration with toxicologists and emergency physicians at the University of California, Fresno and anthropologists at aims to understand the interplay between the substances that gun-injured patients believe they use and why, as well as what is actually in their bloodstream at the time of their injury.
Equity in Emergency Care
Past Project

Finders: Finding diabetes in the emergency setting

This study explores the feasibility of detecting undiagnosed diabetes in the emergency department using random capillary glucose to better allocate primary care resources to high-risk patients.