| 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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Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Rhode Island
Culturally Sensitive Depression Care Management for Latino Patients
From left to right—Seated: Karen Capoverde, Loren Sidman, Beth Marootian, Joanny Jerez; Standing (1st row): Christine Deagan; Standing (2nd row): Euginia Cruz, Karina Delarosa, Ryan Haggarty, Jim Spink, Lisa Uebelacker, David Pearson, Ivan Miller
Research has shown that in comparison to non-Latino Whites, Latinos receive less treatment and have poorer treatment outcomes for depression. This randomized controlled trial addresses these disparities by evaluating bicultural, bilingual depression care management for low to moderate income Latinos who are beginning depression treatment through their primary care provider. The participants will have recently begun antidepressant treatment and receive either: 1) a 12-week, culturally appropriate, telephone-based depression care management program, in addition to treatment as usual or 2) Treatment as usual. This project will demonstrate feasibility and acceptability of the proposed intervention and study design, and will gain an estimate of effect size. This is a collaboration among Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Beacon Health Strategies, and Butler Hospital/Brown University. Most of the Latino study population will come from a network of 11 community health centers. This project has the unique strength of being relevant for health plans and also feasible for a geographically disparate network of patients.
Website:
http://www.nhpri.org
Contact:
Beth Ann Marootian, MPH (bmarootian@nhpri.org)
Principal Investigators:
Beth Marootian, MPH
Ivan Miller, PhD (Butler Hospital)
Lisa Uebelacker, PhD (Butler Hospital)
Team Members:
Karen Capoverde (CSN Team Lead-Clinical Case Manager, Beacon Health Strategies)
Euginia Cruz (Depression Care Manager, Beacon Health Strategies)
Christine Deagan, RN (VP Clinical and Quality Management, Beacon Health Strategies)
Karina Delarosa (Research Assistant, Butler Hospital)
Ryan Haggarty, MA (Project Coordinator, Butler Hospital)
Joanny Jerez (Depression Care Manager, Beacon Health Strategies)
David Pearson, MD (Consulting psychiatrist)
Loren Sidman (Behavioral Health Account Manager)
Jim Spink (VP of Field Operations & Public Policy Beacon, Health Strategies) |
