| 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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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
From left to right—Front Row: Bin Xie, Isabel T. Lagomasino, Sarita A. Mohanty, Deirdre Anglin, Janelle Rodriguez, MS Candidate; Back Row: Jennifer M. Green, Silvia Simental, Maria Pallares, Lisa R. Perez, Alina Molina
The project addresses the question of how to make quality depression care more accessible for low-income, minority populations. Although quality improvement interventions for depression in primary care settings have proven effective at improving access to and quality of depression care. Low-income, minority patients disproportionately utilize the emergency department (ED) as a surrogate for primary care and are rarely screened or provided with depression treatment in ED. In one of the largest public sector EDs in the United States serving mostly low-income Latinos, USC will assess whether a depression intervention that uses Latino community health workers (Promotoras) and a bilingual/ bicultural social worker can improve access to, and utilization of, depression care. The involvement of USC’s Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine in this project provides cross-discipline collaboration and will provide insights on how to screen for and improve the delivery of depression-specific treatments in the ED.
Website:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/ksom.html
Contact:
Sarita Mohanty, MD, MPH (samohant@usc.edu)
Principal Investigator:
Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH
Team Members:
Deirdre Anglin, MD, MPH
Jennifer M. Green, MSW
Isabel T. Lagomasino, MD, MSHS
Alina Molina, MSW
Maria Pallares, Promotora
Lisa R. Perez, BS
Janelle Rodriguez
Silvia Simental, MSW
Bin Xie, PhD |
