This Project Grant award of $1,200,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program aims to implement community-level innovations to improve diabetes health outcomes among the Hispanic/Latino population in Bexar County, Texas. The "Pathways Project" will expand a sustainable collaborative network, including organizations like The Health Collaborative and Community...
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $399,111 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The grant aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening coordination between obstetric and primary care providers. The intervention includes default primary care visit scheduling,...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will support a $100,000 research project by the American Board of Family Medicine Inc. (ABFM) to analyze the response of primary care providers to updates of four different clinical treatment guidelines. The project aims to assess the predictors of time to practice change towards more guideline-concordant care for updates related...
This $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will enable Northwestern University to adapt and pilot test the EMPOWER strategy. EMPOWER is a technology-enabled, primary care-based health literacy intervention to empower cisgender women with increased vulnerability to HIV to make informed decisions about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The project aims to: 1) adapt the EMPOWER...
This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912) supports the "Clinical Workflow Change Management Project for TCFM & FLH" over the period of September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Improve...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912) to the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization, Inc. (FDRHPO), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in Watertown, New York. The 3-year grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will fund the...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Northwestern University a $4,122,304 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 23, 2022. The grant will fund the implementation and testing of the Supporting Transitions to Primary Care Among Under-Resourced, Postpartum Women strategy through August 31, 2025. Commonly known as STEP-UP,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,900,000 Project Grant under the Telehealth Programs (CFDA 93.211) to the Moses-Weitzman Health System, Inc. (MWHS) and its Weitzman Institute (WI) to implement the "Primary Care Telementoring: Expanding Specialty Access for Underserved Populations Nationally" project. Over the 5-year project period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029, WI will utilize its existing Project ECHO infrastructure to train...
This $1,250,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program (CFDA 93.912) supports a Community Paramedicine and Health Worker Program in Laconia, New Hampshire. The program aims to increase preventative care access for underserved populations, such as older adults and...
This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) will support Premier Community Healthcare Group Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Florida, in expanding its operating hours to increase access to primary care, behavioral health, substance use disorder services, and pharmacy services for underserved populations in Pasco and Hernando Counties....