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December 22, 2015 | Issue No. 11
CHRC FY 2016 Call for Proposals generates 80 LOIs requesting $17.7M |
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Last month, the CHRC issued the FY 2016 Call for
Proposals, which looks to support programs that will: (1) Expand capacity; (2)
Reduce health disparities; and (3) Help reduce avoidable hospital costs. The four types of projects targeted include:
Promoting comprehensive women’s health services and reducing infant mortality
rates; Expanding access to dental care; Integrating behavioral health service
delivery and addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic; and Expanding access to
primary and preventative care services and chronic disease management. The CHRC
received 80 Letters of Intent requesting $17.7 million in year one
funding. One third of the Letters of
Intent that were received came from first-time applicants, and approximately one-half (39) of
the applicants have not received a grant from the CHRC in the past. Full
grant proposals are due January 11, 2016, and grant award decisions are
expected in mid-March.
The Mental Health Association of Frederick County utilizes
CHRC grant to leverage additional support from Frederick Memorial Hospital |
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The Mental Health
Association of Frederick County, a private, not-for-profit agency, received a
grant from CHRC in February 2014 to open a behavioral health walk-in
center. Since the center’s
opening, the program has served 537 clients. Of this total, 26% report they would
have gone to the local ED if the walk-in center had not been an available
option. Funding from CHRC
and the local CSA (Mental Health Management Agency) helped secure $15,000 in
additional funds from Frederick Memorial Hospital to cover the staffing and
operations cost of the center. This program in
Frederick is one of several projects that involve community-hospital
partnerships that were initiated with initial “seed funding” provided by the
CHRC. Click here for more information on Hospital-Community
partnerships.
In addition to the hospital funds, the Mental Health Association of
Frederick County has received an award of $120,000 from the Stulman Foundation
to help fund the transition of their group practice to an Outpatient Mental
Health Clinic over the next two years.
They will also receive $15,000 in FY 16 funding and $30,000 in FY 17
from the Frederick County Government. These partnerships allow the program to offer the walk-in service at no cost to the client.
CHRC invited to present to the Local Health Officer Roundtable |
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The CHRC’s presentation to the Local Health Officer
Roundtable earlier this month provided an overview of the history of CHRC, the
impact of its funding, and the most recent CHRC Call for Proposals. To date,
the CHRC has received requests for $276.2M and has awarded $52.3M in grant
funding (does not include funding requests for current RFP/FY 2016). Grantees have leveraged CHRC funds to obtain
$18.8 million in additional funds, the bulk of which ($14.9 million) has come from private/non-profit resources. Click here
to view the full CHRC presentation.
The Calvert Health Department and CHRC submit application to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released an RFP on
October 29, 2015 which provides funding to as many as 10 applicants with
objectives to (1) identify promising innovations to improve health being
implemented in low-resource communities; (2) evaluate whether the innovations
improve health care quality and health without increasing costs; and (3)
disseminate these innovations as examples for other communities to implement.
The CHRC partnered with the Calvert County Health Department (CCHD) to submit a
preliminary proposal to RWJF for $250,000 to evaluate a Commission funded
infant mortality program for substance abusing women. The program, funded by
CHRC in 2014, provides wrap-around services for substance abusing women of
childbearing age in an effort to reduce the number of pregnancies in this
cohort and reduce the rates of substance abuse for women in the County. The grantee provided an update to the Governor's Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force which describes the impact of the program. The CHRC-Calvert proposal to RWJ would evaluate the program’s reach, effectiveness of services offered, cost
efficiency, and participant satisfaction. Full proposals for this initiative
are due in March, with possible funding to begin in the summer of 2016. Click here
for a summary of the CCHD and CHRC proposal.
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and Total Health
Care partner to provide primary care and care coordination services at new
health center site |
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MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and Total Health Care
collaborated to open a new health center site on the grounds of the
hospital. The partnership is supported
by a two-year grant from the CHRC, which is supporting the salary costs of
three patient navigators who are embedded in the hospital emergency
department. Total Health Care opened the
site and began seeing patients on July 14, 2015. The navigators provide services for patients
visiting the emergency department seven days a week and work to connect the
patients to ongoing primary care services at Total, which will serve as a
medical home for these patients. In the
first few months of the program, 305 patients have received care at the new
site. Total Health Care plans to provide a medical home for 3,000 uninsured or
newly insured patients over a two-year time frame. The Union Memorial Hospital and Total Health
Care is one example of a program supported by the CHRC that involves diverting
avoidable ED visits and linking individuals with routine and primary care in
the community. For more information
about these types of grants, click here.
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