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Aetna Foundation
“Leading the Way for the Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health”
The Disparities Solutions Center, in collaboration with the Aetna Foundation, is working to design and implement a program focused on developing new leaders and empowering existing leaders interested in disparities reduction efforts. The program includes a one-year HealthCare Disparities Fellowship designed to train new leaders in the areas of cultural competence, community oriented research and elimination of racial/ethnic disparities in health care. It also includes a Disparities Leadership Forum – a one-time event that provides an opportunity for leaders who are addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health care to come together for a semi-structured, interactive, strategy session and think-tank on eliminating disparities.
Project Directors: Alexander R. Green, M.D., M.P.H. & Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.
Time Frame: January 2007 – December 2009
Read more about this year's fellow, Jessie Kimbrough-Sugick, MD, MPH.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance
“Small Grants to Encourage Medical Groups to Address CLAS” and “CLAS Awards”
This project is designed to encourage the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services (CLAS) by health plans and medical practices. The Disparities Solutions Center will work with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to develop a program awarding innovative practices in health plans and partnering organizations, and a separate small grants demonstration program for medical practices. The Disparities Solutions Center will work with NCQA to design and implement both programs, and will provide technical expertise and advice as NCQA identifies innovative practices to improve the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Project Directors: Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. & Robin Weinick, Ph.D.
Time Frame: February 2006-February 2008
The California Endowment
“Policy Briefs: Cultural Competence, Health Disparities and Quality of Care”
The Disparities Solutions Center is preparing two manuscripts that address current issues in the field of cultural competence, quality, and racial/ethnic disparities in health care. Providing robust evidence from the medical literature, foundation reports, and other sources, these papers will be targeted toward influencing policy, practice, and end-users in the healthcare community. To facilitate the transition from publication to public action, the Center will also develop a dissemination plan for the findings, reaching out to a wide audience of key health care decision makers.
Project Directors: Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. & Alexander R. Green, M.D., M.P.H.
Time Frame: December 2005-December 2006
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"Moving Hospitals to Action"
The Disparities Solutions Center received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop and create tools to help Hospitals address disparities. The Center will create a Leadership Toolkit that makes the "case" to hospital leaders for why and how they should address disparities within their organization, a Hospital Equity Report Guidebook that will provide hospitals with guidance on how to monitor for disparities, and conduct routine Web Seminars that broadly disseminate current, practical and actionable strategies to track and address disparities.
Project Directors: Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. & Alexander R. Green, M.D., M.P.H.
Faculty: Roderick King, M.D., M.P.H. & Robin M. Weinick, M.D., M.P.H.
Time Frame: April 2007-September 2008
Please visit our web seminar archives and our resources page, featuring the Hospital Equity Report, all funded by this grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Cultural Competence Consulting
The Disparities Solutions Center is providing an integrated, interactive organizational consultation to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the area of cultural competence in health care. The approach emphasizes the role of cultural competence as a mechanism for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of care, as well as assisting the Foundation’s Disparities Team in understanding how they can incorporate these issues into their interactions with each other and the grant making process.
Project Directors: Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. & Alexander R. Green, M.D., M.P.H.
Time Frame: February 2006
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Leading Change: The Disparities Solutions Initiative”
The Disparities Solutions Center received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to focus on developing practical solutions for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care that can be tested and replicated in real-world clinical settings.
Project Directors: Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. & Robin M. Weinick, Ph.D.
Faculty: Alexander R. Green, M.D., M.P.H. & Roderick King, M.D., M.P.H.
Time Frame: December 2005-December 2006
Please visit our archives to view our web seminars that addressed issues on collecting Race/Ethnicity data which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Please see our case study of Aetna, Inc. which highlights promising disparities solutions which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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