AAHP Foundation

Washington, DC

$15,026—Focus group of health plan executives to test messages about collection of racial and ethnic data to address disparities (for 1 month).
ID 50566

American Medical Association

Chicago, IL

$199,471—Developing a strategic plan for a consortium of state and medical specialty associations to address disparities in health care (for 1 year).
ID 50105

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care

Program supporting partnerships among local health care providers and community organizations to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethnic diversity strongly influence related health behaviors.

Program Sites

• Campesinos Sin Fronteras

  Somerton, AZ

  $25,000—Improving diabetes self-management among farmworkers and their families (3 months).
  ID 50114

  $370,000—Improving diabetes self-management among farmworkers and their families (30 months).
  ID 50617

• Galveston County Health District

  La Marque, TX

  $370,000—Defining and implementing community-wide interventions for diabetes (30 months).
  ID 50615

• Mainegeneral Medical Center

  Waterville, ME

  $24,645—Developing a community support project that addresses diabetes (3 months).
  ID 49988

  $369,893—Developing a community support project that addresses diabetes (30 months).
  ID 50613

• Metro Denver Black Church Initiative

  Denver, CO

  $27,107—Improving quality of life for African Americans with diabetes (3 months).
  ID 50227

  $369,999—Improving quality of life for African Americans with diabetes (30 months).
  ID 50618

• Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center Program Inc.

  Miami, FL

  $370,000—Increasing community support for diabetes care and self-management (30 months).
  ID 50611

• Minneapolis American Indian Center

  Minneapolis, MN

  $370,000—Improving diabetes self-management among Native Americans (30 months).
  ID 50614

• Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council

  Billings, MT

  $370,000—Improving diabetes self-management among Native Americans (30 months).
  ID 50612

• Richland County Health Department

  Sidney, MT

  $370,000—Community-based program addressing self-management of diabetes (30 months).
  ID 50616

Other Program Activities

• Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

  St. Louis, MO

  $657,891—Technical assistance and direction for Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care and Advancing Diabetes Self-Management (1 year).
  ID 48447

UCLA Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association

Los Angeles, CA

$5,000—Conference on disparities in health care (for 1 month).
ID 50476

Center for Healthcare Strategies Supporting Organization Inc.

Princeton, NJ

$381,789—Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care: a best clinical and administrative practices initiative (for 2 years).
ID 50537

$499,893—Supporting activities for a health plan collaborative to reduce health care disparities (for 2 years).
ID 51018

Communications Projects

Multiple Contractors

$112,440—Expert conference and related activities on merging ethnic and racial disparities with quality improvement (for 1 year).
ID 51887

$50,000—Communications products for disparities-targeted research (for 6 months).
ID 52329

Dartmouth Medical School

Hanover, NH

$900,000—Continuation and expansion of analyses for the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (3 years).
ID 50308

$662,673—Dartmouth Atlas Disparities Database (3 years).
ID 50488

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

Project to undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.

• George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

  Washington, DC

  $98,915—Planning the development of a hospital quality improvement initiative addressing racial and ethnic disparities (for 6 months).
  ID 50956

  $4,366,885—Technical assistance and direction for Expecting Success (2 years).
  ID 52304

• New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

  New York, NY

  $19,425—Evaluation planning for a hospital disparities reduction strategy (4 months).
  ID 51231

  $1,999,916—Evaluation of Expecting Success (53 months).
  ID 52203

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos

Program to help improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.

• Sutton Group, LLC

  Washington, DC

  $100,000—Communications support for Hablamos Juntos (1 year).
  ID 52470

• The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute

  Los Angeles, CA

  $690,849—Technical assistance and direction for Hablamos Juntos (1 year).
  ID 48408

Hektoen Institute for Medical Research

Chicago, IL

$9,732—Identifying gaps in the research literature on language barriers to health care (for 4 months).
ID 50338

Henry Ford Health System

Detroit, MI

$392,640—Studying the role of private purchasers in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care (for 2 years).
ID 48916

$60,000—Exploring the issues of racial and ethnic data collection (for 11 months).
ID 50333

$6,468—HMO Research Network 2004 conference focusing on the inclusion of racial and ethnic disparity in quality improvement efforts (for 3 months).
ID 50923

Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D.

Owings Mills, MD

$25,000—Producing a chartbook that summarizes key information on health care disparities (for 4 months).
ID 50414

University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

$18,099—Preparing papers on racial and ethnic disparities for a special issue of the American Journal of Managed Care (for 9 months).
ID 48758

Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Inc.

Wilmington, DE

$25,000—Support for a conference to address racial disparities in health care in Delaware (for 6 months).
ID 52168

National Association for Elimination of Health Disparities

Washington, DC

$20,000—Sponsorship of the 2004 National Minority Health Month Leadership Summit (for 1 month).
ID 50574

National Public Health and Hospital Institute

Washington, DC

$189,039—Study of hospital practices in the collection of race and ethnicity data (for 9 months).
ID 50183

New York Academy of Medicine

New York, NY

$395,926—Research on the impact of different service providers on racial and ethnic disparities and outcomes (for 18 months).
ID 49138

Project Hope—The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc.

Bethesda, MD

$42,250—Supplemental support for a special disparities issue of the journal, Health Affairs (for 1 year).
ID 50221

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, NY

$51,649—Evaluating the impact of racial and ethnic disparities in health care on minority lives lost (for 2 years).
ID 51435

Southern Rural Access Program

Program to increase access to health care services in eight rural underserved states.

Program Sites

• Alabama Primary Health Care Association Inc.

  Montgomery, AL

  $667,555—(2 years).
  ID 50635

• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

  Little Rock, AR

  $752,340—(2 years).
  ID 50641

• Center for Rural Health Development Inc.

  Dunbar, WV

  $460,000—(2 years).
  ID 50638

• Enterprise Corporation of the Delta

  Jackson, MS

  $500,000—(2 years).
  ID 51740

• State of Georgia Department of Community Health

  Atlanta, GA

  $696,220—(2 years).
  ID 50634

• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

  New Orleans, LA

  $850,301—(2 years).
  ID 50637

• Mississippi Primary Health Care Association Inc.

  Jackson, MS

  $767,488—(2 years).
  ID 50639

• South Carolina Office of Rural Health Inc.

  Columbia, SC

  $819,560—(2 years).
  ID 50636

  $500,000—(2 years).
  ID 51739

• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  Galveston, TX

  $759,279—(2 years).
  ID 50633

Other Program Activities

• Arkansas Department of Human Services

  Little Rock, AR

  $482,892—Developing policy initiatives to address community health worker program sustainability (3 years).
  ID 50226

• Benton Foundation

  Washington, DC

  $125,000—Special Sound Partners for Community Health solicitation for radio stations in Southern Rural Access Program states (1 year).
  ID 51405

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

  Chapel Hill, NC

  $225,217—Evaluation of the Southern Rural Access Program (21 months).
  ID 44706

• The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

  Hershey, PA

  $771,368—Technical assistance and direction for the Southern Rural Access Program (1 year).
  ID 48426

Urgent Matters

Program to support the development and implementation of best practices to relieve emergency department overcrowding, and help communities understand the interdependence between the health care safety net and the rest of the delivery system.

• George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

  Washington, DC

  $1,837,109—Technical assistance and direction for Urgent Matters (17 months).
  ID 50230

The Walking Shield American Indian Society

Tustin, CA

$50,000—Providing dental services to Native Americans living on reservations (for 1 year).
ID 47198

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