Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative – Phase I
July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2009
Grant Awards List
Access III of Lower Cape Fear
Location: Wilmington (New Hanover)
Total Grant Amount: $390,000
Counties Served: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow Pender
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: The grantee is working with local medical providers to implement the Group Medical Visit intervention model throughout their six-county network area. It is also working with local health departments to support the provision of culturally appropriate diabetes education curriculum and self-management tools.
Buncombe County Medical Society
Location: Asheville (Buncombe)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Buncombe
Health Focus: Diabetes and Cancer
Project Description: Working in partnership with the Asheville Institute of Parity Achievement to implement PACE (Parity Achievement and Community Empowerment) a comprehensive program designed to achieve parity in health and well-being in the African-American community.
Charlotte Communities of Shalom-Thomasboro
Location: Charlotte (Mecklenburg)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Mecklenburg
Health Focus: Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: This organization has implemented “Living Good, Feeling Good,” a project designed to eliminate health disparities from a holistic and culturally appropriate perspective. Community health advisors are trained in the risk and protective factors of heart disease, available health care resources, proper nutrition and living an active lifestyle. They will share this information with the BOWL residents of ZIP code 28208 through door-to-door visits and community events. The grantee organization also provides opportunities for regular physical activity.
Chatham Hospital Immigrant Health Initiative
Location: Siler City (Chatham)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Chatham
Health Focus: Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: The Immigrant Health Initiative at Chatham Hospital seeks to improve the health of the Latino population in Chatham County through prevention, detection and treatment of risk factors related to heart disease. The project seeks to increase the dissemination of age-specific, evidence-based, culturally appropriate health promotion/prevention programs and materials; increase the number of tested and treated Latinos at risk for cardiovascular disease; and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease by increasing self-management skills.
Cleveland County Health Department
Location: Shelby (Cleveland)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Cleveland
Health Focus: Obesity
Project Description: In partnership with the Alliance for Health and the Minority Health Council, the grantee is working in the town of Kingstown to implement a project designed to address health disparities in the African-American population. The project provides health interventions, education and outreach to support environmental changes that will lead to healthier behaviors and lifestyles.
Cornerstone Ministries, Inc
Location: Greenville (Pitt)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Pitt
Health Focus: Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: In collaboration with existing community partnerships, this grantee organization has implemented “Healthy Lives/Healthy Choices,” a project designed to address disparities in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among African-Americans in Pitt County. This innovative approach utilizes a team of lay health advisors to provide screening services, triage, care management and individualized follow-up. Additionally, the organization is working to implement policy and environmental changes in communities, businesses, churches and grocery stores within the county.
Dare County Department of Health
Location: Manteo (Dare)
Total Grant Amount: $330,000
Counties Served: Dare
Health Focus: Obesity
Project Description: In partnership with Dare County Schools, the grantee is utilizing “Peer Power,” a peer education program that educates students in Dare County about physical activity, nutrition and tobacco use. The goal is to eliminate the early onset of chronic diseases among youth in Dare County regardless of race, ethnicity or socioeconomic status. The project trains high school students as peer health educators, who share what they've learned with middle and elementary school students in a formal classroom setting.
Elizabeth City State University Foundation University Foundation
Location: Elizabeth City (Pasquotank)
Total Grant Amount: $400,000
Counties Served: Beaufort, Bertie, Chowan, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans
Health Focus: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: In partnership with the Elizabeth City Housing Authority, the grantee has established the Health Resource Center. The Center’s objective is to prevent and effectively manage the onset and progression of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, primarily by encouraging behavioral changes among individuals accessing services.
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation/Novant Health
Location: Winston-Salem (Forsyth)
Total Grant Amount: $425,000
Counties Served: Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Gaston, Guildford, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stokes, Surry, Union, Wilkes, Yadkin
Health Focus: Obesity
Project Description: The grantee has implemented the Fit to Live Program by expanding exisiting disease management, case management and the scope of health education currently provided to Medicare patients with chronic conditions where obesity is a significant risk factor. The objectives are to improve health literacy and care management as a means to improve compliance with treatment plans, and to increase the percentage of patients who are knowledgeable about their risk factors and can implement lifestyle interventions to manage the risks.
GBO Partnership for Children, Inc
Location: Greensboro (Guilford)
Total Grant Amount: $330,000
Counties Served: Guilford
Health Focus: Diabetes and Obesity
Project Description: The grantee seeks to reduce death from diabetes among African-Americans by increasing physical activity as well as fruit and vegetable intake. Each program participant has an assigned case manager, an individualized treatment plan and free access to a community fitness center. The organization is also working to increase the number of grade school students who have a BMI assessment. Students with a BMI greater than 30 will have the opportunity to participate in an obesity intervention program.
Greene County Health Care, Inc
Location: Snow Hill (Greene)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Greene, Pitt
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: Grantee is enhancing its services to diabetic patients by providing medical family therapy and certified diabetic health education. The grantee organization has also developed a lay health advisor network that will reinforce and educate diabetic patients about local resources, healthy eating, weight loss, exercise, self-monitoring and goal setting.
Hertford County Public Health Authority
Location: Winton (Hertford)
Total Grant Amount: $800,000
Counties Served: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, Washington
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: This is a coordinated multi-county diabetes prevention initiative targeting African-Americans in several counties in the Northeast region of the state. The Northeast Diabetes Sentinel Project will utilize faith-based partnerships to promote increased diabetes prevention, diagnosis and care.
Lincoln Community Health Clinic
Location: Durham (Durham)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Alamance, Durham
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: The organization is expanding its existing Diabetes Collaborative Program, an ongoing diabetes management effort focused on African-Americans and designed to meet the national standard of improved improved diabetes glycemic control.
NC Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Inc
Location: Raleigh (Wake)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Statewide
Health Focus: Cultural Competency – Health Care Providers
Project Description: The organization has implemented a comprehensive effort to assist family physicians with implementing CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services), developed by the federal Office of Minority Health. The grantee is developing education, training and other resources that will increase physician knowledge of disparate population group risks that may result in different patient care decisions related to cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The program will improve physician understanding and awareness of cultural differences, and how these differences may impact adherence to best practices and patient behavior, and identify, highlight and pilot models of successful physician interventions with disparate population groups.
NC Agricultural &Technical State Univers
Location: Greensboro (Guilford)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Guilford
Health Focus: Obesity and Diabetes
Project Description: In collaboration with Bennett College, the grantee has implemented a health and wellness project that offers a variety of activities designed to identify, test, monitor and decrease incidence of obesity and diabetes among African-Americans in Guilford County.
NC Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Location: Raleigh (Wake)
Total Grant Amount: $400,000
Counties Served: Statewide
Health Focus: Obesity
Project Description: The organization has implemented Project SPARK (Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids), an effort that will provide an intensive training program with resources for current physical education teachers and future teachers. The grantee has also developed a network of college/university teacher education programs interested in obesity prevention efforts and improvement in the quality of physical education throughout the state.
Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
Location: Ahoskie (Hertford)
Total Grant Amount: $435,000
Counties Served: Bertie, Hertford, Gates, Northampton
Health Focus: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: The grantee has implemented the Patient Provider Community Telehealth Network, which assists minorities with diabetes and cardiovascular disease by improving their access to care. The telehealth project is incorporating evidence-based interventions into ongoing case management activities, is expanding interventions into the home, community and schools, provides health education, and is decreasing health care costs.
Robeson County Health Department
Location: Lumberton (Robeson)
Total Grant Amount: $660,000
Counties Served: Anson, Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland
Health Focus: Cardiovascular Disease
Project Description: The Sparrow Project is a community-based cardiovascular disease/stroke education and prevention program targeting African-Americans. Participants are engaging in holistic, workshop-based curricula focusing on lifestyle change, with an emphasis on diet modification, exercise and smoking cessation. The project is being implemented through partnerships with local African-American churches.
Robeson Health Care Corporation
Location: Lumberton (Robeson)
Total Grant Amount: $326,699
Counties Served: Robeson
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: The goal of this project is to reduce the number of diabetes patients with no annual physician visits and to increase the number of visits among those who make only one or two visits per year. Additionally, diabetes patients have access to diabetes education, nutrition counseling and self-care management support.
Rural Health Group
Location: Roanoke Rapids (Halifax)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Halifax, Northampton, Warren
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: The RHG Hope Initiative serves approximately 600 diabetic patients who are at increased risk due to personal difficulty changing health behaviors or poor treatment adherence. The organization has implemented a clinical referral program, and patients participate in an intensive health education and support program that utilizes the "Stages of Change" model, which is designed to improve patients' knowledge of healthy behavior, self-management and sustainable health practices.
Strengthening the Black Family, Inc
Location: Raleigh (Wake)
Total Grant Amount: $360,000
Counties Served: Wake
Health Focus: Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Project Description: The organization has expanded an ongoing project called Project SELF 2 for U. The project is working with community partners to assess individual health status, provide diabetes and cardiovascular-related health information, and provide fitness and exercise opportunities at the Riley Hill Family Life Center. The project also utilizes lay health advisors to educate members of the community, and helps other community organizations/agencies adopt environmental policy changes.
Wake County Human Services – Community Health
Location: Raleigh (Wake)
Total Grant Amount: $390,000
Counties Served: Wake
Health Focus: Cancer
Project Description: The grantee organization has implemented the "Healthy Women, Healthy Wake" project, designed to reduce the death rate from breast cancer for Wake County African-American and Latino women between the ages of 30-64. The project is working to improve access to diagnostic breast cancer services through increased case management and increased clinical assistance to women with abnormal screenings and/or breast exams. The grantee is also working to increase community awareness and advocacy, and build the capacity of community/agency partners to provide cancer awareness education to African-American and Latino clients.
Zara Betterment Corporation
Location: Council (Bladen)
Total Grant Amount: $289,896
Counties Served: Bladen
Health Focus: Diabetes
Project Description: The goal of the Health Education Link Project (HELP) is to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health interventions to African-American and Latino diabetics living in Bladen County. Interventions included screening for diabetes, increased access to medical providers, self-management education and opportunities to participate in Group Medical Visits.