Block Grant R13HS017496

This $385,877 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to optimize the integration of child psychosocial screenings in primary care. The grant will fund the development and testing of the CareLoop intervention, which uses process service mapping to enhance referral and linkage pathways and promote whole-person,...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) supports a $400,000 randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a "whole person navigation" intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions. The intervention combines predictive modeling to identify high-risk patients with a navigation strategy to help guide them in accessing social services and overcoming...

This $244,306 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an artificial intelligence-enabled coaching system to enhance surgical teamwork in cardiac operating rooms. Led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Houston, Texas, the grant aims to design multimodal sensing hardware, data-driven algorithms, and an interface to monitor, assess, and improve collaboration among healthcare...

This Project Grant award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (CFDA 93.350) provides $159,103 to investigate the experiences of parents seeking emergency care for their injured children with special healthcare needs. The study will engage at least 35 family caregivers to gather qualitative data on factors contributing to poor care quality and hospital complications for this population. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms behind adverse outcomes in injured...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $625,000 to Duke University to develop an interpretable artificial intelligence framework for improving care of critically ill patients. The framework incorporates novel matching techniques known as Almost-Matching-Exactly to analyze observational data from patient treatment and emulate a randomized controlled trial. By matching each treated patient to similar untreated patients,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports a comprehensive $398,972 study on improving healthcare quality and equity for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study, conducted by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) network and the EMPOWER stakeholder group, aims to:...

Mercy Health - St. Rita's Medical Center, LLC received a $299,997 Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration under CFDA 93.912 (Rural Healthcare Services Programs), awarded July 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for June 30, 2026. The grant funds the planning and establishment of Rural Health Connect, an integrated healthcare network serving Putnam and Van Wert Counties in northwest Ohio—both designated Health Professional Shortage...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded Vanderbilt University Medical Center a Project Grant of $185,578 on September 25, 2025, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to support the Mode of Ventilation During Critical Illness at Multiple Centers (MODEM) trial. Under the direction of Dr. Kevin P. Seitz, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt, this...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded The Medical University of South Carolina a $688,047 Cooperative Agreement on September 1, 2025, to conduct the WINDSURFER trial (WIN Ratio Analysis to Determine a Strategy of Non-Invasive Support for Respiratory Failure in the Emergency Department). This clinical research initiative will extend through August 31, 2031, and addresses a critical gap in emergency care by comparing the effectiveness...

COMPASS Ancillary Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (CAN-DO) Project Grant Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded University of Colorado-Denver a $1.48M Project Grant (CFDA 93.837, Cardiovascular Diseases Research) on July 15, 2025, to conduct CAN-DO, an ancillary prospective longitudinal neurodevelopmental study nested within the COMPASS (Comparison of Methods of Pulmonary Blood Flow Augmentation in Neonates: Shunt Versus Stent) randomized controlled trial. The study...