Serious Illness Care
Final installment of a two-year grant to support a statewide coalition that is committed to aligning care for those with life-limiting illnesses with their goals and values. Deliverables include collecting and analyzing survey data, and mobilizing stakeholder organizations, with goals of catalyzing new initiatives and increasing both consumer and provider awareness of end-of-life care issues.
Project Leader: Richard Averbuch
Grant Partner: Health Resources in Action
Year: 2018
Amount: $95575
Maternal & Child Health
First year of funding to develop the methodology to examine the contribution of nursing to care delivery outcomes, and to explore how some nurses achieve consistently lower C-section rates.
Project Leader: Dr. Neel Shah & Dr. Joyce Edmonds
Grant Partner: Ariadne Labs / Harvard
Year: 2018
Amount: $120000
Serious Illness Care
First installment of a two-year grant in support of a project to develop the tools and protocols for a transitions-of-care program that will serve patients with serious illness who fall outside of the current targets for hospice and palliative care.
Project Leader: Dr. Julie Paik
Grant Partner: Boston VA Research Institute
Year: 2018
Amount: $214951
Food Access & Nutrition
In support of the collaboration between Wholesome Wave and COPE to achieve the scale and institutionalization of the Fruit and Vegetable by Prescription (FVRx) program on Navajo Nation, including streamlining the voucher redemption process and improving the data collection and utilization systems.
Project Leader:
Grant Partner: Wholesome Wave
Year: 2018
Amount: $116283
Maternal & Child Health
Bridges to Moms (Research Assistant)
One additional year of support for a research assistant to work with Dr. Roseanna Means on data analysis for the Health Care Without Walls, Bridges to Moms Project.
Project Leader: Dr. Roseanna Means
Grant Partner: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Year: 2018
Amount: $28123
Health Technology
Second installment of a grant to pilot test the Human Dx app among safety-net medical providers, to improve diagnosis and clinical decision-making. The Human Dx app enables any member of the medical community to share and solve clinical cases from around the world.
Project Leader: Dr. Seiji Hayashi
Grant Partner: Human Diagnosis Project
Year: 2018
Amount: $75000
Maternal & Child Health
One additional year of support for expanding the number of women served and building staff capacity for a case management model for homeless pregnant and postpartum women in Boston in partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Project Leader: Dr. Roseanna Means
Grant Partner: Health Care Without Walls
Year: 2018
Amount: $71877
Social Determinants of Health
Second installment of a two-year grant to design and pilot a mother/female caregiver-daughter intervention that aims to harness matrilineal cultural assets and positive mother-daughter relationships to prevent young girls’ substance use and risky sexual behaviors, while promoting positive relationships, cultural identity and educational aspirations.
Project Leader: Allison Barlow
Grant Partner: Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Year: 2018
Amount: $170831
