This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $244,696 to The Children's Hospital Corporation, doing business as Boston Children's Hospital, to conduct research on implementing social risk screening and referral programs in pediatric inpatient settings. The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: 1) Survey and interview clinical...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $714,638.00 and awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), will fund a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the CAARE (Caregivers' Aid to Accelerate Recovery after Pediatric Emergencies) intervention. CAARE is a technology-assisted, stepped care model that provides emotional and behavioral screening, brief inpatient intervention, symptom...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the National Research Service Awards Health Services Research Training program (CFDA 93.225) aims to design, implement, and evaluate a novel intervention to link people experiencing homelessness to a street medicine program at the time of emergency department discharge. The $186,728 award to the Denver Health and Hospital Authority will fund research to (1)...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $1,340,000 Project Grant to Illuminate Colorado Inc., a non-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado. The award is funded through the Social Services Research and Demonstration (SSRD) program (CFDA 93.647), which supports innovative projects focused on preventing and reducing dependency while improving the administration of social services programs. The "Family Connects Colorado" initiative will utilize this funding to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $658,625 to the University of Colorado-Denver to externally validate an automated natural language processing (NLP) screener that identifies infants at high-risk of physical abuse in urgent and emergency care settings. The goal is to improve early recognition of potential child abuse and enable tertiary prevention of...
The University of Colorado-Denver received a $449,999 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. The goal of this 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, is to improve long-term care (LTC) quality of work for staff and quality/safety of care for people living with dementia (PLWD) by implementing context- and workflow-specific decision support technologies (DS Tech). The...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,349,961 was provided by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CARES) Act of 2014 (CFDA 93.877) program. The purpose of the 5-year "JOBWISE" project is to enhance collaboration and coordination between hospital and community systems to support the transition to adulthood for youth with autism and other...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $2,000,000.00 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program will provide funding to the Denver Health And Hospital Authority, doing business as Denver Health, to accelerate cancer screening services for underserved and vulnerable populations in the Denver, Colorado area. The grant will support expanding clinic hours, adding new service lines, hiring additional medical staff,...
This $145,139 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, will support research conducted by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) to develop community-informed, equity-focused quality improvement (QI) dashboards and strategies to address racial and ethnic health disparities in primary care. The...
This $465,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to compare technological and relational approaches to supporting families after a missed well-child visit. The study will: Demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new referral protocol for community health worker outreach following missed well-child visits into existing resources. Compare well-child visit...