Cooperative Agreement 1V1CMS331641

This $1,647,117 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports the development, testing, and validation of a new, transdiagnostic outcome-focused mental health quality measure. The measure will be based on regular patient-reported symptom assessments, and can be used to inform provider selection, evaluate routine mental health service delivery, and promote health equity. The study leverages an...

This $145,139 federal 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 research study by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) to develop a community-informed, equity-focused approach to improving healthcare quality and reducing racial disparities in primary care. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,111,596.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to identify and address potential biases in quality measures for depression and anxiety treatments. The project, led by the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, will use data from over 350,000 episodes of care across 5 large health systems to: Measure how patient characteristics impact quality scores, particularly for those...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a $3,938,332 Cooperative Agreement to the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) under the "States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model" (CFDA 93.968) program. This award will support NYSDOH's efforts to transform the state's healthcare delivery system through 2030 by: Improving financial sustainability for safety net providers, 2) Reducing total cost of care through value-based...

This federal Project Grant award R21HD111811, totaling $258,301.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The objective of this grant is to develop and validate a new measure of patient-centered peripartum contraceptive care, called the Patient-Centeredness of Peripartum Birth Control Counseling (PPBC) measure. The project aims to adapt an existing...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $444,210 to support the development, testing, and validation of outcome-focused quality measures for suicide prevention and mental healthcare across health systems. The project is being led by a research partnership between Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences, with sub-awards to Kaiser Permanente Colorado and...

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 $398,587 study to examine the relative value of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans compared to Traditional Medicare (TM) for dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries ("duals"). The study, to be conducted by The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital), will...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226), provides $400,000 to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to conduct a pragmatic randomized trial evaluating a "whole person" navigation intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). The key objectives are to: 1) develop a predictive model to identify patients with MCC at highest risk of not...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $211,875.00 to New York University School of Medicine to validate a self-report measure of cognitive stimulation in the home environment. The project, titled "Validation of the STIMQ Self Report: A Measure of Cognitive Stimulation in the Home", aims to establish the reliability and validity of the STIMQ2SR, a...

This $1,527,766 Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) seeks to develop, validate, and demonstrate the impact of a novel in-hospital mortality prediction model (MPM) that optimizes fairness across key patient subgroups without sacrificing predictive accuracy. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop fairness-informed MPMs using structured EHR data within 24 hours of admission for patients...