Partners for Health: 2002 - 2003 Grants

• Anaheim Memorial Medical Center ($595,623)
  www.sjo.org / www.memorialcare.org
  In the final year of this multiyear project, Anaheim Memorial, St. Joseph Hospital and the Orange County Ethnic Workforce Initiative Collaborative Group continued to provide support for bilingual/bicultural health workers at local facilities to upgrade their skills and fill critical local patient care vacancies as medical technologists and nurses.
• CHOC/Kaiser Permanente ($66,666)
  www.choc.org / www.kaiserpermanente.org
  Start-up support for a mobile outreach unit for asthma assessment and treatment, at convenient central Orange County sites.
• CHOC Clinic at the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Ana ($32,621)
  www.boysandgirlsclub.com
  Added operational and clinical care support to this centrally located CHOC Clinic.
• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian ($331,641)
  www.hoaghospital.org / www.latinohealthaccess.org
  An additional year of support was provided to this collaborative effort, with Latino Health Access and four Santa Ana elementary schools, to build on existing relationships, modifying policies and practices in the schools, community and at home to address and prevent serious overweight problems in children.
• Kaiser Permanente/California State University Long Beach ($215,243)
  www.kaiserpermanente.org / www.csulb.edu
  Additional funding for this project, supported training and local placements for students in CSULB?s Latino Healthcare Professionals Project.
• St. Joseph Hospital/Diabetes Initiative ($50,000)
  www.sjo.org
  Added support for The Health Funders Partnership Diabetes Initiative, through the ABCD (Accessing Better Care for Diabetes) clinic coalition.
• UCI/CHOC ($245,250)
  www.ucihealth.uci.edu / www.choc.org
  For development of a pilot multidisciplinary center for the treatment of pediatric obesity, and for development and dissemination of effective strategies for identifying and managing overweight and obesity in a primary care practice.
• UCI/COPHYLA ($100,000)
  www.ucihealth.uci.edu / www.cophyla.org
  Collaboration of UCI Medical Center and the Consortium of Physicians from Latin America to train medical interpreters, provide interpretation services, and increase the cultural competence of clinic practitioners.