| Grantees
Finding Answers grants evaluation funds to discover practical and replicable solutions designed to reduce and eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities. During our first two rounds of grantmaking, 21 sites from around the country have been chosen:
Round 1 Grantees (December 1, 2006 start)
Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Oklahoma Choctaw Diabetes Disparity: Reduction by Improved Cultural Competence in Health Communications
Cooper Green Hospital, Alabama A Culturally Sensitive Intervention: Using Multi-Media Technology to Achieve Hypertension Control for Low Income, Low-Literacy African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Massachusetts The Expanded Chronic Care Model: Targeting Disparities in Diabetes Care
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts Using Community Health Workers to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Clinical Screening of Patients’ Health Literacy to Improve Quality and Reduce Disparities: A Program Assessment
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Culturally Sensitive Depression Care Management for Latino Patients
Olive View-UCLA -DREW, California Redesigning Clinic Operations to Improve Depression Care
University of California-Irvine, California Coached Care for Diabetes: Reducing Disease Burden in Two Ethnic Groups
University of Southern California, California Evaluation of a Pilot Randomized, Controlled Trial to Study Depression-Specific Treatments for Patients Seeking Care within a Public Emergency Department
Westside Health Services, Inc., New York Concurrent Peer Review Visits to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Identifying and Treating Maternal Depression in Underserved, Minority Women in a Pediatric Primary Care Setting
Round 2 Grantees (May 1, 2008 start)
University of Arizona College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Telepsychiatry Treatment For Depression In Underserved Hispanics
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Does Pay for Performance Improve the Quality of Hypertension Care for Black Patients? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina Using Telecommunication to Prevent Cardiovascular Outcomes in African Americans with Diabetes
East Carolina Health / East Carolina University / Bertie Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Redesigning Diabetes Care Delivery in Rural Fee-for-Service Practices
Hudson Health Plan, New York Addressing Disparities in Diabetes Care with Pay-for-Performance Programs
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana Communicating Health Risk Information to Hispanic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes using Computer Technology
Mobile County Health Department, Alabama Real Time Tele-Monitoring of Glucose to Improve the Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care Clinics
The Regents of the University of California-Los Angeles, California Providers and Community Engagement: Recovery from Depression (PACE:RD)
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Providing Peer and Health Educator Support for Cardiovascular Health in African-American Primary Care Patients
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,Texas Using Interactive Technology to Identify and Treat Depression in Underserved African American and Latino Patients with Cancer |