![]() ![]() Led by Adelante Development Center, Bernalillo County Office of Health and Social Services, and Presbyterian Healthcare Services.īronx Healthy Buildings Program of Bronx, New York Will expand access to healthy food and equip healthcare providers to refer patients to a service hub to address social and economic needs of community members in Albuquerque’s Southeast Heights and South Valley neighborhoods. Led by Polk County Housing Trust Fund, Polk County Health Department, Broadlawns Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center and UnityPoint Health.Īddressing Healthcare's Blindside in Albuquerque's South Side Will collaborate to reduce asthma-related hospital visits by improving social and environmental factors in East Bank neighborhoods. Healthy Homes East Bank of Des Moines, Iowa Led by Environmental Health Watch, Cleveland Department of Public Health and The MetroHealth System. Led by Partners for Better Health, County of San Bernardino Department of Public Health and San Antonio Regional Hospital.Įngaging the Community in New Approaches to Healthy Housing of Cleveland, Ohio The project will improve access to healthy, affordable food and safe places to be active in order to reduce high rates of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Healthy Ontario Initiative of Ontario, California The BUILD Health Challenge Implementation Grant Awardees: The BUILD Health Challenge will provide technical assistance for awardees in policy development, monitoring and evaluation, and more from the Practical Playbook, a Web-based tool to facilitate and promote collaboration between primary care and public health professionals to improve population health County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, which provide guidance and tools to understand how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play and the Prevention Institute, a national non-profit organization that promotes policies, organizational practices, and collaborative efforts to prevent illness and injury and promote equity in the first place. Working in close partnership with the awardees, the BUILD Health Challenge will also identify and disseminate the most promising models of population health improvement to stimulate these kinds of initiatives in other communities. The BUILD Health Challenge is designed to accelerate collaborative approaches to addressing the social and environmental determinants of health across the nation. "It's one of the reasons I came here," she said, "to leverage some of the lessons learned." "It marked me forever – in a good way," she said. "A nd they missed appointments because the bus was late." The city was "ripe with violence ad trauma," she added. "They didn't have safe neighborhoods," she said. She witnessed people without money to buy medication. She pointed out that she had observed first-hand "the most resource-challenged people in the country," when she worked in public health in New Orleans. ![]() Karen DeSalvo, MD, national coordinator for health IT and acting assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, keynoted the event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, this morning where the award winners were announced. The partnering health system or systems on each implementation award have also committed a 1:1 match with financial and in-kind support to advance the partnership's goals. Seven implementation awardees received $250,000 over two years to strengthen existing partnerships, jump-start more advanced health data and analytics initiatives, and expand their impact.Įleven planning awardees received $75,000 to kick-start still-nascent projects addressing specific health challenges with a committed group of community partners. The funding collaborative awarded both implementation and planning grants to support community-driven initiatives. The BUILD Health Challenge was founded by a few heavy hitters in the healthcare realm: The Advisory Board Company, the de Beaumont Foundation, the Colorado Health Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The community work is being led by local nonprofit organizations, hospitals and local health departments. The efforts in each community are underpinned by health information technology and data analytics. The projects were selected on the strengths of their "bold, upstream, integrated, local and data-driven approaches" to address the social and environmental factors that have the greatest impact on health. BUILD Health Challenge, an ambitious countrywide healthcare initiative aimed at boosting health across communities, today awarded grants to 18 groundbreaking projects to improve health in low-income areas. ![]()
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