HRSA News - Health of America's Children the Focus of $8.6 Million in HRSA Grants

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Friday, October 5, 2007

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Health of America's Children the Focus of $8.6 Million in HRSA Grants

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today announced $8.6 million in grants and a cooperative agreement to improve a wide range of health care services for children. Funds will be used to develop or strengthen the infrastructures of state child oral health programs, improve children's emergency medical care, bolster community-based access to care for children with epilepsy, and provide information and technical assistance on sudden infant death syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

“These grants illustrate the broad range of care and services for mothers and children that HRSA supports,” said HRSA Administrator Elizabeth M. Duke. “About 60 percent of women who give birth each year in America receive services through programs funded by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau.”

Twenty grants worth $3.2 million under the Targeted State Maternal and Child Health Oral Health Service Systems Program will support state efforts to increase early access to services to prevent oral disease, especially for vulnerable children and their families. Nine grants to academic institutions worth $1.8 million are designed to improve all aspects along the continuum of children's emergency medical care – from prevention to pre-hospital and emergency department care to hospital and rehabilitative care.

Grants to four organizations totaling $1.6 million under the Project Access program will improve community-based access to care for children and youth with epilepsy. In addition, a cooperative agreement worth $750,000 with the Epilepsy Foundation will support a National Center to work with funded states to develop public education and awareness campaigns about epilepsy and other services .

Tables outlining the grant recipients mentioned above can be found at the bottom of the release.

In addition, Georgetown University in Washington , D.C. , will receive a $350,000 grant to help establish the National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death Center. This award will be used to maintain a collection of all available SIDS/ID information, provide referrals for technical assistance, and other services. Also, a cooperative agreement worth $976,500 with The Children's Research Triangle in Chicago will provide training and technical assistance to community health centers and maternal and child health sites about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.


Organization	City	State	Amount
Targeted State Maternal and Child Health Oral Health Service Systems Program
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services	Juneau	Alaska	$159,516
Dental Health Foundation	Oakland	Calif.	$160,000
Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment	Denver	Colo.	$159,714
Connecticut Department of Public Health	Hartford	Conn.	$160,000
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services	Dover	Del.	$160,000
Georgetown University	Washington	D.C.	$160,000
Florida Department of Health	Tallahassee	Fla.	$159,939
Illinois Department of Public Health	Springfield	Ill.	$160,000
Iowa Department of Public Health	Des Moines	Iowa	$160,000
Kansas Department of Health and Environment	Topeka	Kan.	$160,000
Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services	Frankfort	Ky.	$160,000
State of Maine	Augusta	Maine	$160,000
Massachusetts Department of Public Health	Boston	Mass.	$160,000
Michigan Department of Community Health	Lansing	Mich.	$160,000
New York Dept. of Health/Health Research Inc	Albany	N.Y.	$160,000
North Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services	Raleigh	N.C.	$159,679
Republic of Marshall Islands Ministry of Health	Majuro	RMI	$160,000
Virginia Department of Health	Richmond	Va.	$159,978
Washington Department of Health	Olympia	Wash.	$160,000
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Inc.	Wauwatosa	Wis.	$135,886
Total: $3,174,712

EMSC Program: New Targeted Issue Grants
Organization	City	State	Amount
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute	Little Rock	Ark.	$196,849
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute of Harbor-UCLA	Torrance	Calif.	$198,729
Loyola University Chicago	Maywood	Ill.	$200,000
The Ohio State University Research Foundation	Columbus	Ohio	$200,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pa.	$194,880
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	Dallas	Texas	$199,999
Baylor College of Medicine	Houston	Texas	$198,645
University of Washington	Seattle	Wash.	$198,677
Medical College of Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wis.	$198,915
Total: $1,786,694

Project Access: Improving Care for Children with Epilepsy
Organization	City	State	Amount
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Calif.	$495,000
Epilepsy Foundation	Landover	Md.	$523,719
Epilepsy Foundation ( National Center )	Landover	Md.	$750,000
Trustees of Dartmouth College	Hanover	N.H.	$340,000
Washington State Department of Health	Olympia	Wash.	$235,000
Total: $2,343,719

For more information on the HRSA's Maternal and Child Health program, visit www.mchb.hrsa.gov.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. HRSA also is responsible for promoting and improving the health of our nation's women, children and families. For more information about HRSA and its programs, visit www.hrsa.gov.