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HRET Health Research & Educational Trust of New Jersey
ResearchHRET Community Outreach Awards
Awards 2006
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Preventing Disease and Injury |
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Saint Michael's Medical Center |
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Project P.I.E.S. (Prevention Intervention & Education Services) |
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Danielle Boyd-Roney
Clinical Integration Coordinator - Project PIES
111 Central Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973-877-2827
Fax: 973-877-2813
E-Mail: daniellebr@cathedralhealth.org |
Description Of Winning Program:
The Project P.I.E.S. (Prevention Intervention & Education Services) is part of the HIV/AIDS Services Department of Saint Michael's Medical Center. The program is designed to halt the spread of HIV in Newark using prevention strategies such as community outreach, direct education, counseling, rapid HIV testing and referral, prevention case management, and prevention messages integrated into the HIV clinical visit. Services are offered at hospital and community sites, such as homeless shelters and food kitchens, and include increased access of those who are HIV positive or at high HIV risk (minority women and people in poor mental health) to HIV rapid testing and HIV risk reduction and prevention. The program links people to quality HIV care and treatment through direct referral, and identifies HIV+ people out of care and brings them back to care through outreach. In collaboration with the City of Newark Department of Health's Homeless Healthcare Program, homeless shelters and service providers, the program targets high risk homeless persons, recruited from HIV outpatient clinics at SMMC, homeless shelter sites and providers, and clients from affiliated agencies through Catholic Health and Human Services, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark. The program has made more than 2000 outreach contacts per year and tested 600 homeless persons, using the CDC Advancing HIV Prevention models for intervention and outreach.
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Improving Access and Quality of Care |
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Princeton Healthcare System |
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Improving Access & Quality of Care for the Uninsured, Underinsured, and Minority Groups in Hightstown, NJ |
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Alan Axelrod
Manager, PHCS Community Education and Outreach Program
253 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-497-4265
Fax: 609-924-7621
E-Mail: aaxelrod@princetonhcs.org |
Description Of Winning Program:
Improving Access & Quality of Care for the Uninsured, Underinsured, and Minority Groups in Hightstown, NJ is a community outreach and education program offered by Princeton Healthcare System that aims to provide traditionally underserved residents in Hightstown with information they need to prevent serious medical illness. By providing access to free and culturally sensitive education and screening programs in this community, the program generated awareness about health risks, screened participants and as needed referred them for treatment for hypertension, diabetes and other serious health problems. With direction and assistance of community partners, the program rolled out a series of screenings, lectures and health fair-type activities in 2005 that were designed to reduce health risks in the Latino and African American populations, focusing on improving cardiovascular health as well as detecting and preventing of diabetes, which are the two conditions that create higher risks for Latinos and African Americans. In collaboration with and support of local community leaders, clergy, nurses and community service organizations, the program identified the areas of need and the limited access to health education and services that many adult residents of this diverse community face. Last year the program effectively organized 12 events, provided more than 320 screenings and 100 referrals for follow up treatments.
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Reducing Healthcare Disparities |
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AtlantiCare Health System |
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AtlantiCare Health Svs - Healthcare for the Homeless |
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Sandra Festa
Director
2009 Bacharach Blvd
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: 609-344-5714
Fax: 609-345-0775
E-Mail: sandy.festa@atlanticare.org |
Description Of Winning Program:
AtlantiCare Health Services - Healthcare for the Homeless was established in 2003 by AtlantiCare as a federally qualified health center to provide primary care services to the homeless of Atlantic County. The initiative was developed to further AtlantiCare's commitment to community health improvement and equitable healthcare and was funded by grants from the Health Resource Service Administration (HRSA). The primary care needs of the homeless were identified through the Homeless Assessment Resource Team over a five-year period, which showed chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and respiratory diseases were going undetected and resulting in higher rates of hospitalizations and comorbidities. The initiative developed a comprehensive primary and preventive care facility, which has seen more than 4,000 unduplicated patients and provided more than 24,000 visits. Patients' cultural and linguistic needs were addressed by staffing ratios of bilingual professionals and increased access to care for the minority homeless. The Center's accomplishments include: reduction of waiting days for an appointment to zero (adopting the IHI model of advanced access); opening of an ambulatory detoxification drug treatment program that admitted over 200 patients each year; development of a system continuum that provided seamless care from the acute setting to outpatient services, national recognition in the Health Disparities Collaborative Diabetic Project, and state recognition in the pharmacy 340B program which purchases medications for the homeless.
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Programs with Budgets Less Than $50,000 |
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital |
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Sharing Stories/Compartiendo Historias Breast Cancer Awareness Theater Program |
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Bruce Newman
Senior Vice President for Development, RWJUH Foundation
8 Easton Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-745-7393
Fax: 732-846-6815
E-Mail: bruce.newman@rwjuh.edu |
Description Of Winning Program:
Sharing Stories/Compartiendo Historias Breast Cancer Awareness Theater Program was developed by the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in 2001as an innovative way to reach out to New Brunswick's medically underserved minority women. The community needs assessment has shown the minority women experience a higher death rate from breast cancer than Caucasian women, and that African American and Latino women get mammograms and clinical breast exams at a lower rate than Caucasian women. This initiative used theater and education to highlight the importance of mammograms and raise awareness about breast health. Through the use of storytelling, the program addressed the cultural values and health beliefs of minority women and encouraged open discussions about these issues, including fear, cultural differences, language barriers and economic challenges. The bilingual presentations were performed throughout the city in locations like schools beauty salons, laundromats, women shelters, adult learning centers, churches and health fairs – places where women feel comfortable and can be encouraged to participate. The program was developed in partnership of the hospital with the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Middlesex County Health Department. Since the program inception, more than 2,000 city residents have participated in the theater presentations and approximately 570 women received free mammograms.
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