Partners for Health: 2001 - 2002 Grants

• Anaheim Memorial Medical Center ($595,623)
  www.sjo.org / www.memorialcare.org
  In this two-year project, Anaheim Memorial, St. Joseph Hospital and the Orange County Ethnic Workforce Initiative Collaborative Group provide support for ethnic minority health workers at local facilities to return to school to upgrade their skill and fill critical local patient care vacancies as medical technologists and nurses.
• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian ($169,345)
  www.hoaghospital.org / www.latinohealthaccess.org
  This 16-month collaborative effort, with Latino Health Access and four Santa Ana Elementary Schools, uses existing systems to address and prevent serious overweight problems in children.
• Kaiser Permanente ($215,243) www.kaiserpermanente.org / www.csulb.edu
  A second year of funding was provided for this project, which offers support and local placements for students in California State University Long Beach Latino Healthcare Professionals Project.
• University of California Irvine Medical Center ($7,000)
  www.ucihealth.uci.edu
  Targeted project to increase ethnic diversity of students, cultural competency of faculty in Family Nurse Practitioner Program.