Collaboration.
Innovation.
Impact.
Partners believes that today's health care and social services need to change and improve in fundamental ways so that they work better for all of us.
Towards this goal, Partners brings about positive change in the delivery of health care and social services through:
- Collaboration with community-based organizations and public and private funders to create these fundamental changes.
- Innovation in Partners' programs and projects that demonstrate and prove the effectiveness of these new strategies.
- High-Impact Results Partners' work has produced replicable models of care that others across the country have adopted.
National & Regional Innovations
First of four national demonstration sites to lead expansion of Partners' evidence-based Medication Management Improvement System (MMIS). (more)
Partners and Other Healthcare Leaders Join Public Discussion on Medi-Cal and Health Care Reform with Principles for Effective HealthCare Reform as a First Step. (more)
Partners in Care Establishes the California Health Innovation Centersm (CHICsm): The Center creates and encourages local and statewide partnerships aimed at redirecting health and community resources using tested programs... (more)
June Simmons, president and CEO of Partners in Care, joins the Institute for Health Care Improvement's (IHI) team supporting the innovative Triple Aim Initiative.
News....
Santa Clarita Adult Day Health Care Center Announces New Contract with the Veterans Administration
Partners' CEO W. June Simmons named CEO of the Year 2009 by the Los Angeles Business Journal
Partners' Launches “Latino Depression Awareness Campaign For Older Adults, Their Families and Caregivers” (listen/view material)
Partners' Institute for Change Research Director, Susan M. Enguidanos, PhD, Presents at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Research Seminar: Home Based Palliative Care: Improved Patient Care at Lower Cost
National Council on Aging Honors Partners in Care Foundation for Exceptional Service
Partners in Care Institute for Change Presents Findings to California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG): First Rigorous Study on Effectiveness of In-Home, Community Based Palliative Care
Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina G. Carbonell Addresses 2008 Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging in Washington, D.C. with June Simmons, CEO Partners in Care, and Co-Presenter of "Aging Services Network and the Future of Long-Term Care"
The Institute for Change/Research Center
Research to real world, evidence-based practice change.
Our expertise in project research, program and services development, evaluation and dissemination are helping make essential advances in the delivery and transformation of health care and social services.
Our award-winning projects have led to nationally recognized and replicated models of care.
Pilot Projects: Conceive new ideas and conduct exploratory studies.
Needs Assessment and Consultation: Guidance, planning and project development.
Research and Evaluation Projects: Randomized control trials, comparison design and program, evaluation.
Dissemination and Replication: Moving research to practice.
Read more: From Research to Real World Practice 
Partners in Care Institute for Change
Join Us!
Partners' welcomes leaders and innovators to join with us in exploring the possibilities of "changing the shape of health care" and social services so they work for all.
To discuss a collaborative project or idea contact:
W. June Simmons, President/CEO, 818.837.3755 ext. 102 or email 
or
Dr. Susan M. Enguidanos, IFC/Research Center Director 562.622.4099 or email
Partners serves as a catalyst to shape a new vision of care by partnering with organizations, funders and community leaders.
Learn how Partners'
innovations are:
Changing Health Care Systems
Changing Communities
Changing Lives
