Awarded Grants

To expand children's healthcare access and coverage in NH, the region and on the national level by working collaboratively with a wide-range of organizations on SCHIP reauthorization and implementation, engaging the business community in children's healthcare advocacy efforts, providing specific support to NH stakeholders to increase and protect children's healthcare coverage.

To improve the quality, effectiveness and availability of primary care for all New Hampshire residents by promoting primary care as a medical home that provides patient-centered primary care and coordinates all other care.

To improve the educational, community and health outcomes for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders as they transition from adolescence to adulthood by partnering with three community mental health centers and a residential facility to implement this research-based intervention and by overcoming the reimbursement and funding barriers to ensure system wide replication in NH.

To develop increased data analysis capability of public health data by developing capacity to use Bayesian spatial modeling to assess uncommon events and small populations to make better predictions of risk and to make that information available to stakeholders and the public.

To improve access to comprehensive health services for Manchester's most vulnerable residents by establishing a community health care network that will provide integrated oral health, mental health and primary care services.

To implement an electronic health record system across NH's community mental health centers by engaging in a comprehensive planning effort to understand the clinical, financial, data analysis, and reporting needs of stakeholders and developing recommendations.

To examine food access and affordability at the community level in New Hampshire and the extent to which dietary-related illness is associated with reduced access to healthy foods by conducting a research study about the availability of quality, affordable food across the state.

To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.

To improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care in New Hampshire by quantifying the cost and utilization of care caused by adverse drug events using a research methodology modified from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

To improve and develop mobility options for residents of the Contoocook River Valley through the development of regional and local organizational transportation infrastructure.

To meet the immediate transportation needs of more low-income and vulnerable NH residents and enable them to participate fully in Bonnie CLAC's compreshensive program by expanding Bonnie CLAC's fleet of cars for its Bridge Program and partially funding compensation of the Bridge Care Manager.

To improve the quality of healthcare offered by New Hampshire hospitals and other providers by promoting cultural effectiveness within organizations and facilitating innovation to ensure delivery of culturally sensitive and appropriate care via the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board and a Cultural Awareness Healthcare Workgroup.