Larry Hogan, Governor
Boyd K. Rutherford, Lieutenant Governor
Robert R. Neall, Health Secretary
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Allan Anderson, MD, Chair
Elizabeth Chung, Vice Chair
Scott T. Gibson
J. Wayne Howard
Celeste James
Surina Jordan, PhD
Barry Ronan
Erica I. Shelton, MD
Ivy Simmons, PhD
Julie Wagner
Anthony C. Wisniewski
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Mark Luckner, Executive Director
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Summit on Primary Care.
April 16-18, 2020, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD.
The program is for health care professionals in a variety of settings who are committed to transforming primary care to ensure equitable care and achieve better outcomes. Registration and program details can be found
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CHRC Call for Proposals generates 79 applications requesting $36 million
The FY 2020 Call for Proposals issued by the CHRC in October generated 79 applications requesting $36 million in funding (click here). The CHRC budget allocates $6 million to support new grant awards this fiscal year.
Following a review period, grant awards are expected to be made by the CHRC in early March 2020.
This year's Call for Proposals supports three categories of programs:
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Promoting delivery of essential health care services: primary/preventative care services, dental services, and women's health care services;
(2)
Addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic through integrated behavioral health service delivery; and
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Promoting food security and efforts to address diabetes prevention and management.
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The CHRC and Maryland Rural Health Association Participate in Interview on
WYPR's
On the Record with Sheilah Kast
Mark Luckner, Executive Director of the CHRC, and Lara Wilson, Executive Director of the Maryland Rural Health Association (MRHA), joined Sheilah Kast, host of WYPR's
On the Record to discuss the
challenges residents of Maryland's 18 rural counties face in accessing primary, behavioral and dental care. To access to the recording, click here.
The interview highlighted the innovative and collaborative ways that safety net providers and other community based organizations are stretching limited resources to provide quality healthcare and expanded access to social supports closer to home. Mr. Luckner
discussed how
CHRC start-up grant funding has enabled safety net providers to increase their service capacity, and support new, innovative programs such as the Garrett County Health Department tele-health technology program to increase access to Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, and the Lower Shore Clinic in Wicomico County which used grant funding to add primary care services to their existing behavioral care services. Ms. Wilson highlighted the dramatic impact that increased access to services has for many rural residents across Maryland, and described the Maryland Rural Health Stories project.
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The Maryland Rural Health Stories Project Featured on WYPR's On the Record Program
The CHRC has released three videos which highlight the human impact of CHRC grants in rural communities. The first video highlights programs in Garrett, Wicomico, and Calvert Counties. The second video highlights programs in Carroll, Cecil, and Wicomico counties. A third video recounts the story of Calvert County resident Rachel who is overcoming addiction and assisting other individuals as a Peer Support Counselor.
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he Maryland Rural Health Stories project is a special collaboration with MRHA. Under the project, six programs in rural communities are highlighted and residents who received services under these six programs went on camera to tell their story about how their lives were impacted by these programs.
The project was highlighted on a recent broadcast of the On the Record Program with Sheilah Kast. The videos can be viewed
here.
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Family Healthcare of Hagerstown
Celebrates a New Program to
Benefit Chronically Ill Patients
Family Healthcare of Hagerstown, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington County, received a two-year grant from the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (CHRC) to serve low-income, chronically ill patients in Western Maryland. Specifically, the program focuses on
those with chronic diseases who are new to the Center or existing Center patients who are frequent users of the hospital and/or emergency room.
The grant has allowed the hiring of
two additional LPN Pre-visit Coordinators whose roles are to provide individualized support to patients before their scheduled Clinic appointment. Specifically, they address barriers to care before clinical appointments so that patients and their clinicians have the needed tools, resources, and information during clinical visits. Staff expect patients to achieve better health outcomes through this expanded medical home approach.
At a grant check presentation event held at FHH on December 9, 2019, CHRC Vice Chairwoman, Elizabeth Chung expressed the Commission's appreciation to FHH for their efforts to expand access to essential healthcare services for vulnerable individuals with complex, chronic illnesses, including diabetes. This program illustrates one of the many ways that innovative hospital-community partnerships that serve individuals with complex and chronic health conditions will help support the implementation of the State Diabetes Action (click here).
Left to right: Jerred Brown (FHH Board), Paul Corderman (Maryland State Delegate), Kim Murdaugh (FHH), Mark Luckner (Maryland Community Health Resources Commission), Elizabeth Chung (Maryland Community Health Resources Commission and Asian American Center of Frederick), and Angelo Edge (Aetna Better Health of Maryland).
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his event generated coverage by the Hagerstown Herald Mail here.
Since the beginning of the program this past May, FHH has served more than 400 individuals, most of whom have chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, and are impacted by multiple social determinants of health. The two-year grant for $225,000 from the CHRC helped FHH leverage an additional $10,000 commitment from Aetna Better Health for Maryland.
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he CHRC has awarded a number of grants that support innovative hospital and community partnerships that serve individuals with chronic conditions. For more information about these grants, click here.
 Health Partners Launches Care
Management Program for
Underserved Residents in Charles
County
Health Partners, a community-based health and dental care provider in southern Maryland, received a two-year grant for $260,000 from the CHRC to support an expanded care management program that serves low-income and underserved residents in Charles County. The program is also supported by another $10,000 grant from Aetna Better Health of Maryland.
Health Partners hosted an event earlier this month to celebrate the launch of its expanded care management program.
Left to right: Thomasina Coates, Charles County Commissioner; Dr. Howard Haft, Maryland
Primary Care Program; Elizabeth Chung, CHRC Vice Chair; Mac Middleton, former State Senator; Chrisie Mulcahey, Health Partners; Mark Luckner, CHRC Director; Adelline Ntatin, Aetna Better Health of Maryland; and Bill Berry, Health Partners Board Chair.
The CHRC has awarded 236 grants totaling $71.3 million and initial grant funding provided by the Commission has enabled its grantees to leverage an additional $28.3 million, the bulk of which has been provided by private resources ($23.3 million). For more information about these programs, click here.
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January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. For more information, click
here.
The fourth week of January is
National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week
here.
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