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 Funding Opportunities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a announced this funding opportunity: "Building the Science of Public Reporting (R21)". Soliciting R21 Exploratory/Developmental grant applications that propose to build the scientific evidence base for effective public reporting for consumers through innovative, actionable studies that address pressing questions in the field. Application are due March 28, 2012. RFA-HS-12-004
Healthy Eating Research (HER): Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. Deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are May 31, 2012 , July 31, 2012 and October 4, 2012. For more information, visit The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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OCE Partner Highlights
From left to right, Crystal Sanford, Dr. Arek Jibilian and Norma Aguirre
A New Model for Primary Care at LAC+USC
By Michael Hochman, MD
Patients at LAC+USC now have access to enhanced primary care services, thanks to a USC pilot project called Galaxy Health Care.
For the pilot, which was generously funded by the UniHealth Foundation, a group of faculty members has developed an intervention to improve care at one of the resident primary care clinics at LAC+USC. The program is designed according to the principles of the patient centered medical home model of care -- a model that promotes continuity between the patient and doctor, enhanced access to care, and improved care coordination, among other attributes.
As part of the pilot -- which began in July 2011 -- patients in the clinic receive the following new services:
- access to a call center where patients can receive telephone advice from a resident physician 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- the ability to have their medications renewed by phone (rather than an in-person visit)
- access to same-day urgent care appointments when necessary
- enhanced case management assistance
- outreach after emergency room and hospital visits
Thus far, feedback from patients, residents, and clinic staff has been overwhelmingly positive. In the spring, the program leaders will conduct a formal evaluation to more directly assess the impact on patient satisfaction, resident satisfaction, emergency room and hospital visits, and quality of care.
"We hope to be able to use this pilot project as a building block for implementing the full patient centered medical home model in all of the resident primary care clinics at LAC+USC," said Dr. Arek Jibilian, a USC faculty member and a co-Principal Investigator for the project.
Adds the residency program director, Dr. Eric Hsieh: "What's really exciting about this project is that it involves the residents in real world quality improvement." The idea for Galaxy Health Care was envisioned by Dr. David Goldstein, the senior Principal Investigator for the project. In addition to Drs. Jibilian, Hsieh, and Goldstein, other faculty members who have been involved include: Drs. Bharat Chaudry, Ron Ben-Ari, and Michael Hochman (the working Principal Investigator). At LAC+USC, Margaret Berumen has championed the project. In addition, the project team has hired two top notch care coordinators with the UniHealth funds, Norma Aguirre and Crystal Sanford, who have become essential staff in the pilot clinic. Becky O'Neal and Jennifer Severa hold it all together on the administrative side. The team also recently hired Elisabeth Hicks as the new project coordinator. |
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Announcements
Conference
Registration is now open for the Eleventh Annual IHA Health Literacy Conference, "Operational Solutions to Low Health Literacy." The conference will take place May 9-11, 2012. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Irvine. Please visit the Institute for Healthcare Advancement website for registration information.
Evaluation Metric The Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Evaluation Metrics Manual has been updated by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The Manual is available at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences website.
California Breast Cancer Prevention Initiatives
The newly-launched California Breast Cancer Prevention Initiatives is hosting a webinar April 30, 2012 from 1:30pm-2:30pm PDT to introduce interested stakeholders (that means you!) to the project. Approximately $24 million will be dedicated to directed, coordinated, and collaborative research to pursue the most compelling and promising approaches in four research areas.
3rd Bi-Annual National Latino Cancer Summit
Join Latinas Contra Cancer for the 2012 National Latino Cancer Summit in San Francisco. Cancer researchers, health care providers, community based agencies and community health educators from across the country will turn the spotlight on the environment, from science to social justice. Register for the Summit, submit an abstract or apply for a scholarship.
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Recommended Reading
Salud es Vida: Development of Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach with Latina Farmworkers in Rural Southern Georgia
by: John S Luque, Mondi Mason, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, Andrea Hinojosa and Cathy D. Meade
"We developed and evaluated a lay health worker curriculum
intended to educate Hispanic farmworker women on cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the HPV vaccine. We pilot tested the curriculum in 2010 with 7 volunteer promotoras for readability, attractiveness, content, comprehension, cultural appropriateness, persuasion, structure and organization of lessons, balance between didactic and participatory activities, and ease of diffusion to community members. Peer-led cervical cancer prevention education is a practical option for low-income, Hispanic farmworker women in newer immigrant-receiving areas of the United States with fewer Spanish-speaking health professionals."
A Model to Translate Evidence-Based Interventions Into Community Practice
by: Peter M. Layde, MD, MSc, Ann L. Christiansen, MPH, Donna J. Peterson, PhD, Clare E. Guse, MS, Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD, and Terry Brandenburg, MPA, MBA, MPH
"There is a tension between 2 alternative approaches to implementing community-based interventions. The evidence-based public health movement emphasizes the scientific basis of prevention by disseminating rigorously evaluated interventions from academic and governmental agencies to local communities. Models used by local health departments to incorporate community input into their planning, such as the community health improvement process (CHIP), emphasize community leadership in identifying health problems and developing and implementing health improvement strategies. Each approach has limitations. Modifying CHIP to formally include consideration of evidence-based interventions in both the planning and evaluation phases leads to an evidence-driven community health improvement process that can serve as a useful framework for uniting the different approaches while emphasizing community ownership, priorities, and wisdom."
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