| Round 1 Grantees |
| Westside Health Services, Inc., New York |
| University of Southern California, California |
| University of California-Irvine, California |
| Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut |
| Olive View-UCLA -DREW, California |
| Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Rhode Island |
| Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Oklahoma |
| Cooper Green Hospital, Alabama |
| Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia |
| Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts |
| Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Massachusetts |
| Round 2 Grantees |
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Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts
Using Community Health Workers to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
From left to right—Joanne Calista, Shelly Yarnie, Celeste Lemay, Lisa Renee Siciliano, J. Lee Hargraves, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Ashley Barrington, Warren Ferguson, Joan Pernice, Meghan Patterson
In collaboration with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center's Outreach Worker Training Institute, this project will evaluate the effects of enhanced training of community health workers (CHWs) to reduce disparities in care in low-income, ethnically diverse populations served by community health centers (CHCs). This project is the second phase of a two-phase project by the Massachusetts Health Disparities Collaborative, which includes thirteen community health centers. Phase One focused on training and providing support to teams in each of 17 CHCs that implemented rapid cycle system redesign with one hundred patients living with diabetes. Phase Two of the project will test how effective CHWs, who are trained in the “Chronic Care Model,” are at educating patients about diabetes, coordinating community resources, and supporting patient self management. This project provides patient-level tracking of intervention process and outcome data that will facilitate successful replication in other settings, if the intervention is proven to be effective.
Website:
http://www.massleague.org
Contacts:
Joan Pernice, MS, BS (jpernice@massleague.org)
J. Lee Hargraves, PhD., MS, BS (lee.hargraves@umassmed.edu)
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