| 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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Olive View-UCLA -DREW, California
Redesigning Clinic Operations to Improve Depression Care
From left to right— Antonia Tillman, Lina Palomares, Lacey Wyatt, Katherine Abbey
Not pictured: Chizobam Ani, Lutful Akhanjee, Mohsen Bazargan, Douglas Bell, Tony Kuo, David Hindman, Michael Rodriguez and Satwant Sidhu
The project builds on a collaboration between UCLA, DREW University and the Los Angeles Department of Health Services and relies on a prospective longitudinal study design to evaluate the implementation, impact, and sustainability of an existing depression intervention at two large public sector clinics in Los Angeles County, California. This clinic-based intervention aims to improve the quality of depression care for African-American and Latino patients residing in the South Central and Northwest regions of Los Angeles County. The intervention program includes: 1) screening protocol for depression embedded in the patient intake process at each clinic; 2) staff training in the use of reminders, treatment algorithms, and an electronic depression registry to aid physicians in their management of depressed patients; 3) post-visit brief counseling protocol for use by nurses and 4) patient education methods to encourage patient self-management. The intervention has strong support from Los Angeles County leaders and has an excellent chance of dissemination across 100 other Los Angeles County clinics once results have been compiled.
Website:
http://fm.mednet.ucla.edu/index.asp
Contacts:
Lacy E. Wyatt, MD, MPH (lwyatt@mednet.ucla.edu) or Michael A. Rodriguez, MD, MPH (MRodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu) for UCLA and Mohsen Bazargan, PhD (mobazarg@cdrewu.edu) for DREW. |
