You are viewing grants made in the year: 2003
Housecall Providers
Extending the Vision
2003 - To build capacity by increasing key program and administrative staff positions and by upgrading telephone and computer capabilities. Multnomah County;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$32,500
Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation
Moving Oregon over the Chronic Care Chasm
2003 - To improve health care for and health outcomes of Oregonians with chronic diseases. Statewide Oregon;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$53,200
Deschutes County Mental Health Department
Crisis Resolution Center
2003 - To assist the startup operation of the Crisis Resolution Center, a new 15-bed adult residential psychiatric facility. Deschutes County;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$75,000
Family Medicine Department, OHSU
Clinical Breast Exam Training for Residents
2003 - To establish within all of Oregon's primary care provider (PCP) residency programs a curriculum to teach optimal clinical breast exam and to train in clinical decision making about breast findings. Statewide Oregon and SW Washington;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$20,511
Columbia County Child Abuse Assessment Center
Forensic Medical Examiner
2003 - To support a part time forensic medical examiner. Columbia County;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$10,000
Cascade AIDS Project
Kids' Connection
2003 - To comprehensively address the impact of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable children and youth by providing services to HIV-affected children and leveraging a more effective community response to the needs of HIV-affected children. Multnomah, Clackamas, Columbia, Washington, and Yamhill Counties;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$45,000
Boys & Girls Aid Society
Girls Leadership and Development (GLAD)
2003 - To support GLAD, a program providing long-term support, counseling and mentoring to middle and high school girls in low-income neighborhoods. Multnomah County;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$40,000
Benton County Health Department
Monroe Community Health Center Capacity Building
2003 - To provide clinical, prenatal and perinatal care as well as health promotion and outreach services to Latino residents. Benton County;
From our Community Grants focus area.
$37,239
Peace Harbor Hospital Foundation
Peace Harbor Nursing Workforce Development Planning
2003 - To support the planning activities necessary for developing a collaborative system to provide clinical training and online didactic instruction for nursing students in Oregon's central and southwest coastal regions.
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$25,000
Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education
Increasing Capacity to Both Educate and Better Prepare Nurses
2003 - To develop, implement and evaluate a new model of nursing education.
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$491,413
Oregon Center for Nursing
General Operating Support and Technical Assistance
2003 - n/a
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$609,850
Multnomah County Health Department
Public Health Resident Faculty and Recruitment Project
2003 - To recruit, train and retain a culturally diverse and appropriately educated public health nursing workforce, allowing nursing students to train in a number of public health practice environments.
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$313,854
Chemeketa Community College
Partnerships in Clinical Mentoring
2003 - To develop and pilot a project that creates adequate faculty through intensive orientation and mentoring from experienced full-time faculty members to ensure a high degree of knowledge transfer.
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$36,649
Clackamas Community College
Workforce Improvement with International Nurses (WIN)
2003 - To prepare 30-36 entry level RNs by targeting nurses who have been credentialed in other countries but who are living in Oregon and southwest Washington.
From our Health Workforce Advocacy focus area.
$375,000
Institute on Aging, Portland State University
Arthritis Among Hispanics in Oregon: Developing Community Solutions
2003 - To develop a database on the characteristics of, beliefs about, and treatment behaviors related to arthritis among this population; to develop a comprehensive plan for minimizing the ill effects of arthritis on this population; and to field-test one or more strategies developed and evaluate the results.
From our Community-Based Participatory Research focus area.
$461,000
University of Washington School of Nursing
Arthritis in Focus: Improving the Quality of Life Through a Lifetime Fitness Program
2003 - To improve the health of people with arthritis in targeted counties by increasing participation in a Lifetime Fitness Program.
From our Community-Based Participatory Research focus area.
$275,691
Providence Center on Aging
CHAMPS: Community-Based Home Arthritis Management Project
2003 - To determine whether or not an arthritis self-management education program alone, or in combination with nursing case management, will lead to decreased pain, increased function, and decreased health care costs for study participants. The study targets home-bound older adults (65+) with limited mobility.
From our Community-Based Participatory Research focus area.
$446,543