Projects in the SE/A Region 2001-2006
2006 Projects 2005 Projects 2004 Projects 2003 Projects 2002 Projects 2001 Projects
Projects are listed by start date
Funded in 2006
March 2006
Marion General Hospital
Katrina Relief Award
The award will be used to replace equipment damaged by Katrina.
Start Date: March 28, 2006
End Date: June 30, 2006
Hancock Medical Center
Katrina Relief Award
The award will be used to purchase computers for the physicians, internet
connection, reference texts and a MISHIN membership.
Start Date: March 26, 2006
End Date: June 30, 2006
Medical Foundation of South Mississippi
Katrina Relief Award
The award will be used for computers, connections and a MiSHIN membership.
Start Date: March 17, 2006
End Date: September 30, 2006
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Katrina Relief Award
The Gunter Library of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory will use
the award to purchase computer equipment, a MiSHIN membership and
basic health science text destroyed in the hurricane.
Start Date: March 14, 2006
End Date: April 30, 2006
LMA of Hancock Medical Center
Katrina Relief Award
The LMA anesthesiology group at Hancock Medical Center will use the award to
purchase equipment and textbooks lost in the hurricane.
Start Date: March 14, 2006
End Date: September 30, 2006
February 2006
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - White Marsh
Project
The Harison Library staff will work with the Physicians at
White Marsh practice consisting of 12 adult physicians and 4 pediatricians.
The library staff will provide health information website brochures,
flyers and signs to be displayed in the waiting areas, encouraging
patients to begin their quest for health information on the web with
MedlinePlus. Additionally a computer would be located in one of the
adult patient waiting areas. The computer would have Internet access.
MedlinePlus would be set as the home page. Two times a month, a library staff
person would spend a few hours sitting at the computer and helping and demonstrating
to patients how to search for healthy information.
Start Date: February 1, 2006
End Date: April 30, 2006
January 2006
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
Katrina Relief Award
The award will be used to purchase computer equipment for patient
access.
Start Date: January 30, 2006
End Date: July 31, 2006
William Carey College Libraries
Katrina Relief Award
The award will be used to purchase computer equipment for the Gulfport campus
library damaged in Hurricane Katrina.
Start Date: January 27, 2006
End Date: July 31, 2006
Bay St. Louis Pediatrics
Katrina Relief Award
Office flooded by over 3 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina computer
equipment and half of textbooks destroyed (including Nelson's Pediatrics,
Basil & Zitelli
Atlas, Park's Pediatric Cardiology, Capute & Accardo Developmental Disability
in Pediatrics) 4/5 of personal files of photocopied and clipped journal articles,
accumulated over 8 years, also destroyed. Funds will be used to replace texts
and for a membership in MisHIN.
Start Date: January 15, 2006
End Date: June 15, 2006
Garden Park Medical Center
Katrina Relief Award
The facility flooded and computer equipment in the physician's library was damaged
and needs to be replaced. Funds will be used for replacement equipment and a
membership to MisHIN.
Start Date: January 15, 2006
End Date: June 15, 2006
University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
Library
Katrina Relief Award
On August 29, 2005 hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast and destroyed
the first floor of the library which housed the serials and microform collections,
and the 24/7 computer lab. It is the only university library on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast and is open to the public. The loss of our serials, microform, computers,
printers, and scanners puts the Coast community at a serious disadvantage in
accessing electronic resources that will be vital to their success. Funds will
be used to replace computers and to purchase several medical reference texts.
Start Date: January 15, 2006
EndDate: June 15, 2006
Southeastern Lifestyle Fitness Center
Community Connections Award
This library improvement will be managed by the Southeastern Regional Medical
Center of Lumberton, NC.
Start Date: January 2, 2006
End Date: April 30, 2006
Mercer University - Georgia
The "Georgia Health - Go Local" project will be implemented
in phases, beginning with the incorporation of existing databases,
services and resources. The GRID database (Georgia Rural Health Interactive
Directory) at the Medical College of Georgia (http://www.oacs.mcg.edu/Rural)
will be the first. They will then import the United Way of Central
Georgia’s 2-1-1 records as a pilot for the rest of Georgia’s 2-1-1
information and referral services (http://www.211.org/status.html#Georgia).
Once these resources have been successfully utilized as the basis
for "Georgia Health - Go Local", they will systematically
begin to collect and add resources county by county across the state.
Start Date: January 1, 2006
End Date: April 30, 2006
Funded in 2005
September 2005
East Tallapoosa Medical Foundation, Inc.
Community Connections Award
East Tallapoosa Medical Foundation, Inc will install equipment to
provide health information services to a large rural, minority population,
low income seniors, high school studetns and under or uninsured persons.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
King's Daughter's Medical Center
Community Connections Award
King's Daughter's Medical Center will purchase equipment to provide
health information services in support of their outreach mission to
schools, churches, community groups, colleges, businesses and industry.
Start
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
LifeLines Community Native American Program
Community Connections Award
LifeLines Community Native American Program will purchase equipment
to provide health information services to Native Americans in Baltimore's
southeast neighborhoods.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
MaFlo's Health and Awareness Team
Community Connections Award
MaFlo's Health and Awareness Team will purchase equipment to provide
health information from their beauty salon in Georgetown, SC.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2005
People's Intergalactic Food Conspiracy No. 1
Community Connections Award
People's Intergalactic Food Conspiracy No. 1/ The Co-op will install
equipment to provide health and wellness information.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2005
Spry Foundation
The Spry Foundation will develop an effective, easily implemented
model-training program to be used by Edgewood Terrace senior residents
in Washington, DC to access and successfully use MedlinePlus and NIHSeniorHealth.gov.
The developed model should be readily adaptable by other senior housing
and community programs.
Start Date: September 12, 2005
End Date: March 30, 2006
West Virginia Health Right, Inc.
Community Connections Award
West Virginia Health Right, Inc. will purchase equipment to provide
health information to patients in their free clinic in Charleston,
WV.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Women Watch Afrika, Inc.
Community Connections Award
Women Watch Afrika, Inc will install equipment to provide health information
services to African refugees and immigrants.
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
August 2005
24/7 Gateway Homeless Service Center
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
Library Improvement Project
The award will be used to purchase equipment and connections to improve
information services at 24/7 Gateway Homeless Services Center, Atlanta,
GA. Directed by the Bellman Library staff.
Start Date: August 17, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
July 2005
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - Health
Promotion in the Community
The staff of the Harrison Medical Library at Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center will provide classes and presentations on locating
quality health information via the Web to groups throughout the Baltimore
metropolitan area. Presentations and hands-on classes will be offered
covering such topics as healthy living; cancer; alternative health;
caregivers; healthy sites for children, women, and seniors. All classes
will emphasize MedlinePlus as a starting place for locating quality
health information. In addition to the classes and presentations,
a brochure listing healthy Web sites will be distributed to participants.
The brochure will be printed in both English and Spanish.
Start Date:
July 1, 2006
End Date: April 30, 2006
Magnolia Coastlands AHEC - Southeast Georgia Web Presence
project
The Magnolia Coastlands Area Health Education Center (MCAHEC) proposes
to expand its relationship with the Public Health Departments within
the 16-county Southeast Health Unit (SEHU.) This project builds on
the initial work of the Web Presence for Public Health Departments
(WPPHD) subcontract awarded to the Georgia State Wide AHEC Network.
While the WPPHD project focused on heath departments for 16 counties
across the State, only 2 counties from the SEHU, the Southeast Georgia
Web Presence Project will target 4 more Public Health Departments
within the SEHU. The purpose will be to create a Web presence for
individual public health departments in 4 counties within the SEHU
and to arrange workshops on cultural competency that will benefit
the Public Health Department personnel in serving the area’s growing
Hispanic population. In addition, they will introduce, train, and
provide technical assistance to public health personnel in utilization
of health information resources provided by the National Library of
Medicine. The Web sites will promote each county office’s services,
contact information, local health events, pertinent health information,
and links to local, state, and federal databases. The MCAHEC Outreach
Librarian will offer the public health professionals library services
to keep them up-to-date in their professions. The Outreach Librarian
will provide training on how to locate consumer health information
available in English and Spanish plus how to navigate the Public Health
Web site.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Morehouse School of Medicine - Consumer Health
and Toxicology Information Project
Morehouse School of Medicine Multi-Media Center Library (MMCL) will
partner with five branch libraries of the Atlanta/Fulton County Public
Library System (AFCPLS) to increase patron awareness of and skills
in using National Library of Medicine (NLM) online health information
resources. MMCL librarians will train a cadre of AFCPLS librarians
in consumer health and toxicology resources to provide support and
assistance in meeting their patrons’ health information needs.
Start
Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
New Hanover County Public Library - Health Information
in the Community Project
New Hanover County Public Library proposes to establish an outreach
project aimed at improving access to health information for the whole
community, but with special emphasis on certain high-risk and significantly
underserved segments of a diverse population The first phase of the
project will serve the community in general, by offering classes in
basic computer skills and locating reliable health information on
the Internet. These classes will be held in a variety of locations
such as community centers, health centers, libraries, and faith communities.
The second phase will reach specific groups in underserved and at-risk
populations. They will identify organizations and individuals serving
people in these groups and work with them to establish resource centers
where key personnel will be trained to assist people in finding basic
health information. The centers will provide computer access for people
in the community and classes will be held for community members as
needed. They propose to provide training to a wide range of people
including librarians, teachers, health professionals, and the general
public, thereby capturing those who research independently and those
who can assist others in their respective communities. By taking this
dual approach, all of the target populations will be positively impacted
by this outreach project. Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
St. Elizabeth's Hospital - Planning for Health
Enhancement through Literacy
This is a planning project for a larger initiative that will ultimately
address the health education and literacy needs of the St. Elizabeths
patient community and immediate outpatient community. Objectives of
this project are to 1) create an informed base of health professionals
knowledgeable of the importance of health literacy 2) recruit a core
of engaged end-users and community organizations to assess the needs
for health literacy in their community and 3) work with those interested
parties and other related entities throughout the city to develop
a health literacy program in Ward 8.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Three Rivers AHEC - One Church - One Computer
Project
Three Rivers Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in collaboration
with District Four Health Services, Chronic Disease Prevention Program
will provide computers and training on how to locate quality consumer
health information to seven churches that are participating in the
District’s Health Promotion Specialist (HPS) Project. The seven churches
selected to participate in this project have active on-going health
ministries that target diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and other
preventable and/or treatable diseases through preventive measures,
i.e. exercise, diet, and wellness monitoring.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Three Rivers AHEC - Statewide Outreach to GA Healthcare
Providers
Three Rivers AHEC in partnership with the Georgia State AHEC Program
Office, GaIN (Georgia Interactive Network) and Georgia Academy of
Family Physicians (GAFP), proposes an intensive outreach effort to
health professionals in Georgia to promote the awareness of NLM’s
Information Rx project and increase usage of MedlinePlus. The project
will provide information about the Information Rx project and MedlinePlus
to a minimum of 900 health care providers throughout the state. They
will provide mini-swards to critical access or rural hospitals to
conduct patient education/consumer health information fairs focusing
on Medlineplus and Information RX. Also, they will conduct continuing
educational programs on patient education and consumer health resources
in regional medical center throughout the state to health professional
staff.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of Alabama Birmingham - Healthy Spirit
2
UAB will build on the momentum begun with the Healthy Spirit Jefferson
County project, begun in 2002, as a means of addressing and eliminating
some of the barriers encountered by African American residents in
accessing accurate, up to date health information on the Internet.
The Health InfoNet of Alabama cooperative consumer health information
network, with the oversight of the UAB School of Public Health’s “Congregations
for Public Health” program will conduct this project. Funding will
be used to purchase computers, printers and fax machines for selected
neighborhood churches, as well as training materials to be used in
training health information facilitators at the churches. In addition
a series of health workshops at introductory health fairs designed
to raise awareness of the project and to generate interest within
the targeted communities is planned.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of South Carolina - Information Intermediary
Workshops and Development Project
Faculty of the School of Library and Information Science will deliver
multipart workshops on the provision of consumer health information
services to librarians and others who provide such services. A series
of four regionally distributed sessions will feature a suite of five
of the existing NN/LM courses, including as the last segment “¿No
Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking
Librarians.” Workshop attendees will form the core of a group of respondents
who will inform the process of building a set of direct-to-consumer
workshops on consumer health information, with particular concern
for building a curriculum for recent Hispanic immigrants and their
families.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of Virginia - Connecting Congregations
Project
The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (CMHSL) at the University
of Virginia in collaboration University of Virginia School of Nursing,
Roanoke Valley Baptist Association and the Health Ministries Association
in Richmond Virginia, will undertake a project to expand access to
Internet technology for five parish nurses in Central Virginia in
order to facilitate connections between these health care practitioners
as well as to help them access quality health and patient care information
for their rural congregations. Nurses will be trained in use of online
resources such as NLM’s MedlinePlus for patient and consumer health
information, the Partners in Public Health Information Access Web
site for rapid access to public health data, and PubMed for access
to biomedical journal literature. Other online sites such as SeniorNavigator.com,
a local site for health and aging resources in Virginia, will be introduced
to the participants. Various methods to initiate and maintain connections
between nurses and the library will be initiated and participants
will be evaluated as to their preferences for each method. The nurses
will be trained to use a portable projector (purchased with subcontract
funds) as well as presentation software in order to facilitate their
capacity to develop individualized presentations and share information
about medical issues to groups of parish members. Information obtained
will be used to identify best practices for future information project
development with parish nurses and others working within faith-based
communities.
Start Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Virginia Commonwealth University - Virginia Information
Rx/Women's Health Clinic project
The primary goal of the VCU Information Rx Evaluation Project is
to identify the barriers perceived by physicians to filling information
prescriptions and to explore patient’s actual ability and desire to
fill such prescriptions. The differences between physicians’ perceptions
and those of their patients will be compared. Strategies to encourage
physician and patient participation in the Information Rx Project
will be highlighted for librarians’ and health educators’ use.
Start
Date: July 1, 2005
End Date: March 31, 2006
Western Maryland AHEC - West Virginia Outreach
Project
The Western Maryland AHEC in partnership with the Northern WV Rural
Health Education Center (NWV RHEC) and the Eastern West Virginia AHEC
(based in Martinsburg), through which they will involve students in
West Virginia University’s Health Sciences and Technology Academy
(HSTA) program. The project will improve access to electronic health
information for librarians, health professionals and their patients,
public school students, the faith community, and the community at
large in some of the very rural and underserved counties of West Virginia.
It will assist West Virginians in finding quality health information
over the Internet through an extensive training program.
Start Date:
July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Wicomico County Health Department
Electronic
Access to Health Information for the Public, Phase 2
The Wicomico County Health Department (WiCHD) will build on their
previous work, the Electronic Health Information for the Public program
to improve health care access and information to all citizens and
professionals in the county. The overall goal of this project is to
improve access to health/wellness/disability-related information for
the affected community and their caregivers by expanding public education.
The goals of the Wicomico County Health Department’s project include
improving delivery of health information to county residents who suffer
from health disparities and need access to technology.
Start Date:
July 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
June 2005
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland Public Health
Practitioners Information Access & Use
The goal of the proposed study is to better understand the information
needs of public health practitioners and the library resources and
services required for meeting those through a pilot conducted in two
county health departments in Maryland. Library staff will offer information
training, access to the Welch Library's licensed electronic resources
as well as those in the public domain through an individually tailored
web portal, MyWelch, and consulting services of a professional librarian
to two County Health Departments in the State of Maryland. In association
with these services and using a unique combination of methodologies,
they will collect and analyze data on the participants' information
needs and use. From the data analysis, they will define a core set
of resources for public health practice and suggest licensing and
access models for these
.State Date: June 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
May 2005
St. Croix Vocational School
Library Improvement project
The funds will be used to enhance the medical information center for
nurses. Equipment, electronic resources and connections will be funded.
Start Date: May 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2005
April 2005
Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Community Connections Award
The award will be used to purchase computers to be placed in the Diabetic
Foot Clinic and the Health Education Room for use by the public.
Start Date: April 1, 2005
End Date: March 31, 2006
February 2005
University of Maryland
MedlinePlus Go Local
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) at the University
of Maryland serves both the healthcare professional and the consumer.
In addition to the main HS/HSL web site, which lists resources that
are not available to the general public due to licensing agreements,
staff developed a distinct site aimed at Maryland consumers of health
information. This site contains locally developed consumer resources,
links to local health information and other free resources available
to the general public. The purpose of the site was to bring together
health and life topics, referral information, and regional information
for consumers. This site will be further developed with local resources
and be linked to NLM’s GoLocal product. The Maryland Go Local project
team will draw on their experience of identifying local information
for the HS/HSL consumer health site.
State Date: February 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Medical University of South Carolina
MedlinePlus
Go Local
The libraries of South Carolina’s two medical schools, the Medical
University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of South Carolina
School of Medicine (USC) are proposing a Go Local capability for Hands
on Health-SC (http://www.handsonhealth-sc.org).
Hands on Health-SC is a consumer health Web site the libraries have
developed in partnership over the last three years. Identifying health
resources throughout the state and making them searchable by location
and service has been a goal of Hands on Health since its inception.
Indeed, Health Resources in South Carolina is one of the major sections
of the site.
Start Date: February 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of Alabama
MedlinePlus Go Local
Health InfoNet of Alabama (a University of Alabama at Birmingham-sponsored
project) is a cooperative consumer health information service of the
UAB Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences and the Jefferson and
Shelby County Public Libraries. Health InfoNet started in 1999 as
Health InfoNet of Jefferson County, and changed its name in 2002 after
expanding its service area to Shelby County. The ultimate goal is
to expand the service statewide. The Health InfoNet website (www.healthinfonet.org)
has always played a key role, particularly as a referral source to
local health information resources and providers, as well as to premier
national resources such as MedlinePlus. This site will be further
developed with local resources and be linked to NLM’s GoLocal product.
Start Date: February 1, 2005
End Date: April 30, 2006
Funded in 2004
December 2004
Tuskegee University
This project supports a collaborative arrangement between Tuskegee
University and several area churches, the Tuskegee-Macon County
Public Library and the Macon County Parish Nurse Program to improve
access to health information for predominantly minority, underserved
residents of a rural community through information technology. The
project will support the development and implementation of a comprehensive
program designed to educate individuals to retrieve quality health
information. A major component of this project will be training
faculty, students, and staff from Tuskegee University, and representatives
from faith-based institutions to retrieve information from the National
Library of Medicine’s health databases.
Start Date: December 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
Wayne Memorial Hospital
East Carolina University
Library Improvement Project
This award will allow the Wayne Memorial Hospital to upgrade its technological
infrastructure to include equipment and a computerized library catalog.
East Carolina University will direct this project.
Start Date: December 1, 2004
End Date: November 30, 2005
November 2004
Palm Beach County Library System
Consumer Health
Information Partners
The Community Health Information Service (CHIS) of the Palm Beach
County Library System will provide training in the use of online consumer
health information resources.The target population includes the Latino
community and to health care professionals in Palm Beach County. Training
will include the use of MedlinePlus and the Community Health Information
Service web site.
State Date: November 1, 2004
End Date: October 31, 2005
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Community
Health Information Partners
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (SRHS) will develop and provide
education to members of the SRHS Congregational Nursing Program (CNP).
Emphasis will be on the effective use of authoritative Internet health
information resources such as MedlinePlus and Hands on Health-SC,
as well as SRHS Health Sciences Library contact and service information,
including the use of Loansome Doc for efficient document delivery.
The educational session will be followed by site visits to member
organizations and ongoing support via telephone, email, and the CNP
Newsletter.
Start Date: November 1, 2004
End Date: March 31, 2006
University of North Carolina
NC AHEC Library
and Information Service Network Training and Outreach Initiative
Project
The North Carolina Area Health Education Center Library and Information
Services Network (NC AHEC LIS Network), will raise awareness of AHEC
library services among health professionals in North Carolina and
conduct training's on using online resources available through the
National Library of Medicine, the AHEC Digital Library and NC Health
Info. The proposed project consists of a statewide cooperative outreach
effort among AHEC libraries and will build upon the outreach efforts
of each individual library.
Start Date: November 1, 2004
End Date: January 31, 2006
October 2004
Foothills Area Health Education Center
Web Presence
for Public Health Departments
The Georgia Statewide AHEC Outreach Librarians will partner with sixteen
(16) individual county Public Health Departments to create web sites
and provide training for the staff and clients in each county. This
project will build on the strengths developed through previous activities:
the PHOENIX Project, cybercafe, exhibiting at annual meetings, Internet
Access grants, and training of health professionals within the public
health departments.
Start Date: October 1, 2004
End Date: September 30, 2005
George Washington University
Partners for Health
Information V
Partners for Health Information V (Partners) will (1) implement and
assess programs to integrate online health information resources in
District of Columbia community health centers for staff and patients,
and (2) facilitate Health Information Partners, HIPS, the new coalition
of health information programs in the metropolitan Washington area.
This coalition involves 18 regional organizations, including community
based health organizations, the DC Public Library, university departments,
an academic library, health centers, and the District’s adult
education agency. The goal of this coalition is to promote health
literacy and health information advocacy among working class residents
who have less experience with online technology and online health
information.
Start Date: October 1, 2004
End Date: September 30, 2005
Medical University of South Carolina
Hands on Health for South Carolinians Training
Project
Through connections made over the past two years at statewide meetings
and Community Leaders Institutes, MUSC proposes to offer workshops
to schools, community groups, youth organizations, senior centers
and churches. In these workshops, they will teach participants how
to use the Internet for accessing health information and provide training
on both MEDLINEplus and their consumer health Web site, Hands on Health-SC,
which highlights the major health issues of South Carolinians. The
classes will be available all over South Carolina, especially in rural
and minority communities.
Start Date: October 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
September 2004
Ciudadanos Preocupados por la Educacion
Community Connections Award
Ciudadanos Preocupados por la Educacion will install equipment at
the center to enable the provision of information services.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: August 31, 2005
East Tennessee State University
Access to Electronic
Information Project
ETSU will extend health information training to public library personnel,
health professionals and the public health workforce in 17 counties
in Northeast Tennessee. They expand their HealthInfo Express@Your
Library service and promote NN/LM membership.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
Gulfcoast North Area Health Education Center
Access to Electronic Information Project
The GNAHEC will partner with the University of South Florida AHEC
Program, and All Children’s Hospital to expand and support the
Florida School Nurse Project web site to include training and access
to online health information on the Internet.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: September 30, 2005
Medical Center of Central Georgia
The Health
Resource Center Library Project
MCCG and Three Rivers AHEC will extend their community health outreach
efforts to address the problem of low health literacy. They will expand
the Library web site, provide educational opportunities, and develop
a CME/CE program, on Health Literacy for health professionals in six
counties.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: September 30, 2005
Medical University of South Carolina
REACH 2010
Faith-in-Health Initiative
REACH 2010 Faith-in-Health Library Initiative will partner urban/rural,
inter-denominational African American churches, multi-type libraries,
community organizations, and diabetes coalitions to develop a health
information seeking skills-building program.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
Medical University of South Carolina
Partnering
for Progress: Allendale on the Move
As a follow up to a recent community assessment in Allendale, the
project will offer seminars and workshops focused on the relative
dangers of high priority diseases and on use of the Internet as a
source of credible health information, and organize and promote a
community-wide health competition in conjunction with an existing
community event, aimed at developing a more active, and thus more
healthy, citizenry.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February 28, 2006
Medical University of South Carolina
REACH 2010
Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition Rural Health eAccess
Project
This project will strengthen a partnership among African American
community organizations, multitype libraries, and lay community health
advisors to develop an educational program to train a cadre of volunteers
to use Internet and library resources to search, find, and disseminate
reliable, quality health information about diabetes and its related
complications. This project will build a collection of recommended
diabetes information Web resources, educate community members on how
to use these resources, and measure project participants’ use
of, preference for and satisfaction with selected resources.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February 28, 2006
Mississippi Valley State University
eHealth:
Promoting Health and Wellness Project
The James Herbert White Library, in partnership with Golden Age, Inc.
and the Boys and Girls Club of the Mississippi Delta, will establish
a program to train youth and senior adults in LaFlore County to locate
and use electronic health information.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: November 30, 2005
Northwest Area Health Education Center
Access
to Electronic Health Information for School Nurses Project
Northwest AHEC Library Network will provide school nurses in Rowan
and Forsyth counties with equipment, connectivity and knowledge in
the use of electronic health resources. They provide passwords to
the NC AHEC Digital Library and training in use of the electronic
health resources.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February 28, 2006
Orange County Library System
Healthy Connections
Through OCLS
Through web meetings, online and in person courses and television
programming, OCLS will improve access to and understanding of electronic
health information for Orange County residents and 13 Neighborhood
Centers for Families.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February 28, 2006
St. Galilee Outreach Ministry
Community Connections Award
The St. Galilee Outreach Ministry, Inc will install equipment at the
ministry to enable the provision of information services.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: August 31, 2005
Saint Thomas Hospital
CHIPS Project
The Community Health Information Partners will connect rural and specialized
libraries with hospital libraries to expand the level of health
information available to consumers in Middle Tennessee. A web-based
catalogue searchable by the public is planned.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
Ending Date: February 28, 2006
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
METEOR Project
This project will connect health professionals, their patients and
the general public to the health information resources they need with
technical ease using PDAs. Pharmacy students will be involved in the
training, consulting and partnering activities.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
Virginia Commonwealth University
C.O.I.N. Project
VCU and partners will implement and publicize COIN, the Community
Health Information Network to increase access to high quality health
information for the greater Richmond metropolitan area’s high-risk
population. COIN seeks to strengthen the relationships among its
multiple participating health information organizations and to link
them with community agencies, train “intermediate” users
and use prescription pads for promotion.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February, 28, 2006
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Access
to Electronic Health Information for Children and Parents
The Carpenter Library and its partners will focus on improving access
to pediatric electronic health information for children and families
receiving care at Brenner Children’s Hospital and publicize
the Forsyth County Public Library as a source for consumer health
information in the region.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: August 31, 2005
Wicomico County Free Library
Life Options Community
Project
WCFL and its partners will provide a program for seniors in the county.
Seniors can attend classes on electronic health information, use resources
on their own, have access to technology, staff assistance, and peer
support in their own space in the Library and at other locations in
the county.
Start Date: September 1, 2004
End Date: February 28, 2006
August 2004
George Washington University
School Nurse Information
Outreach Project
Will partner Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library with the Arlington,
VA School Health Bureau to provide training and increased access to
health information for the public health nurses working in the schools.
The project will provide an assessment of information users, and their
information needs, electronic resources, information resources training,
and a web portal.
Start Date: August 1, 2004
End Date: April 30, 2006
July 2004
Public Health Foundation
Evaluation
of the Health People 2010 Information Access web site
The Public Health Foundation will promote and conduct a formal evaluation
of the Healthy People 2010 Information Access (HP2010 IAP) web site
(http://phpartners.org/hp),
a component of the NLM Partners (PIAPHW) portal (http://phpartners.org),
and will provide expert advice, consultation and attendance at the
Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 Partners in Information Access for the Public
Health Workforce meetings and related subcommittee meetings that may
arise.
Start Date: July 19, 2004
End Date: December 31, 2005
June 2004
Bethesda Healthcare System
Library Improvement Project
Start Date: June 1, 2004
End Date: May 31, 2005
January 2004
Sappony Tribe - Health Awareness Tribal Web Site
Design and build a culturally sensitive and independent web site.
Start Date: January 1, 2004
End Date: December 31, 2004
Southeastern Regional Medical Center
Library Improvement Project for Community Health Education Center
Start Date: January 1, 2004
End Date: December 31, 2004
University of Virginia
JABA Project
Will educate the Jefferson Area Board for Aging Staff about accessing
online, reliable health information, train senior clients, and fund
a training coordinator, equipment and connectivity at four JABA
centers.
Start Date: January 1, 2004
End Date: June 30, 2005
Wicomico County Public Health Department
Electronic Health Information for the Public
Will improve access to health/wellness/disability-related information
by improving the Regional Resources Center, expanding its web site,
purchasing 2 computers, and providing training at the Center and in
client's homes.
Start Date: January 1, 2004
End Date: June 30, 2005
Funded in 2003
December 2003
Florida State University College of Medicine
PDA Technology Network
Will create a network of hospital librarians with enhanced technological
skills to assist health professionals who use handheld technology
at the point of care. Will provide training opportunities, handheld
devices, and pocket reference tools to each participating hospital
library
Start Date: December 1, 2003
End Date: January 31, 2006
St. Joseph's Mercy Foundation
Library Improvement Project with Russell Bellman Library
Start Date: December 1, 2003
End Date: November 30, 2004
October 2003
Erlanger Health System
Regional Health Information Outreach Initiative: Chattanooga and North
Georgia Metro Area
In partnership with their HealthLink Plus program will develop two
consumer health centers for the citizens of southeast Tennessee and
northern Georgia. Will develop a web site, provide training and provide
Spanish materials and database.
Start Date: October 1, 2003
End Date: September 30, 2004
George Washington University
PARTNERS For Health Information IV
Will provide classes on tailored health resources to specific, underserved,
minority clinics in DC. Will make available credible, usable resources
for use by health professionals and patients of the clinics.
Start Date: October 1, 2003
End Date: September 30, 2004
September 2003
Medical University of South Carolina
Partnering for Progress
Will expend the input of community residents in defining the problems
and suggesting solutions to the need for better access to health information
and resources, to discuss options, and to outline a plan of action,
targeting African Americans of Allendale County.
Start Date: September 1, 2003
End Date: January 16, 2004
Medical University of South Carolina
Reach 2010 Charleston and Georgetown Coalition Diabetes e-Information
Partnership Planning Project
Plan, develop and mobilize a community-based volunteer network in
support of the information needs of African Americans with diagnosed
diabetes in Charleston and Georgetown counties in South Carolina.
A comprehensive community information needs assessment will be conducted
and community-driven solutions for disseminating electronic diabetes
information will be planned.
Start Date: September 1, 2003
End Date: May 31, 2004
University of Virginia
Patient Med-Ucation: Promoting Student Wellness through MedlinePlus
Will empower students to make health lifestyle choices. Will develop
a trainers' module for peer health educators, provide computers for
student use, and provide health information prescriptions for referral
to MedlinePlus.gov.
Start Date: September 30, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
August 2003
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Library Improvement Project
Start Date: August 1, 2003
End Date: July 31, 2004
March 2003
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Access to Electronic Health Information
Through partnership, facilitate training in the access of health information
via computer for consumers and healthcare providers within Montgomery
and Floyd counties and Southwest Virginia.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
Mountain Area Health Education Center
Access to Electronic Health Information
Collaboration with regional community colleges and university libraries
in 16 counties of rural western North Carolina to improve access to
electronic health information for the region's healthcare students,
the future healthcare providers.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
Public Health Foundation
Increasing Access to Health Information
Will migrate its current web site for public health professionals
to a hosting service with better functionality, establishing more
detailed utilization tracking and developing a full site search capability.
Start date: March 1, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
Roanoke Public Library
Consumer Health Project
The Roanoke City Public Libraries will provide training and access
to online health information for the citizens of Roanoke. The main
branch will add two networked workstations to enhance access for patrons.
They will establish partnerships with local community agencies to
advertise the availability of resources and the training planned for
minority, elderly, and low and moderate income individuals.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: July 31, 2005
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Access to Electronic Health Information
Provide a customized education Oncology Unit web site and a PC touch
screen tablet computer accessible at the patient bedside to improve
access to health information for patients and their families.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of South Florida
Meeting Senior Citizens' Information Needs
Teach seniors to gather medical information independently, train public
librarians to teach seniors about medical searching and gather information
about the medical information needs and medical information seeking
behavior of senior citizens.
Start Date: March 31, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
WebHealth for Seniors
Partnership to provide training sessions at and equipment to 3 senior
centers. Will introduce seniors to health information on the Internet
and enable them to identify accurate and credible resources.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: December 31, 2005
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Faith Based Organization Health Education
In partnership with local health ministry, provide courses on diabetes,
HIV/AIDS, hypertension and oral health to health ministers and congregants.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: June 30, 2004
University of Virginia
Expanded Partnership - Outreach, Community Cancer Coalition, Public
Libraries
Will extend access to current electronic cancer information resources
from the Mountain Laurel Cancer Center to public libraries in southwestern
Virginia. Training will be provided to library staffs and their patrons.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
Western Maryland Area Health Education Center
Western Maryland InfoHealth II
Partnership to provide training to health professionals and the public
to increase search and evaluation skills, redevelop the existing WM
InfoHealth web site into an interactive database driven site, and
increase awareness of NLM resources.
Start Date: March 1, 2003
End Date: August 31, 2004
January 2003
Wake Forest University - Northwest AHEC
PDA Project
A collaboration with the Winston-Salem State University Family Nurse
Practitioner Program to integrate the use of "hand held" technology
into the educational process and to instill life-long information
management skills.
Start Date: January 1, 2003
End Date: March 31, 2004
Funded in 2002
December 2002
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Community Health Center Project
Deliver instruction to develop intermediate and advanced computer
literacy skills for the 60 healthcare personnel at the Christ Community
Health Service. The skills will enable staff to locate and evaluate
quality health information on the WWW.
Start Date: December 1, 2002
End Date: May 31, 2005
October 2002
Eastern Area Health Education Center
Outer Banks Hospital Project
Library Improvement project with Outer Banks Hospital
Start Date: October 1, 2002
End Date: September 30, 2003
George Washington University
PARTNERS for Consumer Health III
Provide learning opportunities for staff and patients at underserved
clinics in DC. Tailor resources and classes to specific clinic specialties.
Make available credible, usable resources for use by health professionals
and patients.
Start Date: October 1, 2002
End Date: September 30, 2003
University of Alabama Birmingham
Healthy Spirit Jefferson County
To address and eliminate barriers encountered by African American
men in accessing health information on the Internet. Will place computers,
printers and fax machines in select churches and provide training
and workshops on health issues.
Start Date: October 1, 2002
End Date: July 31, 2004
Three Rivers AHEC
eHEALTH C.A.R.E. Project
Develop a web presence to promote 5 rural hospitals and their services
and access to health information and community health services available
in counties served by the hospitals. Provide WWW training to various
groups.
Start Date: October 1, 2002
End Date: September 30, 2003
September 2002
Medical College of South Carolina
Health Narratives Project
Will identify citizens for story telling and interviews that will
become health narratives. Will link state and national health information
resources to the local community through the narratives. Will be available
on the web and in print.
Start Date: September 30, 2002
End Date: March 31, 2004
Professional Associates
Youthbuilders Corp Project
With community partners, assist youths in adopting and promoting healthy
lifestyles to reduce their risk of developing diabetes. Build a Youthbuilders
Corp with research, presentation and advocacy skills so they can educate
peers about diabetes.
Start Date: September 30, 2002
End Date: September 30, 2003
July 2002
University of Virginia Health Sciences Library
Promotoras Project
Provide computer and Internet training to Promotoras in the Blue Ridge
AHEC region of VA. Develop a web site of Spanish language and low
literacy materials. Place computers and Internet connections at two
churches and a public library for Promotoras.
Start Date: July 1, 2002
End Date: September 30, 2003
June 2002
Eastern Area Health Education Center
Pungo District Project
Library Improvement project with Pungo District Hospital
Start Date: June 1, 2002
End Date: May 31, 2003
University of Florida
Florida Gator Cat Project
Improve the online searching and research skills of nursing students
at Bethune-Cookman College. Assist with DOCLINE and SERHOLD questions.
Start Date: June 1, 2002
End Date: April 30, 2004
University of South Alabama
Knollwood Hospital Project
Library Improvement Project with Knollwood Hospital
Start Date: June 1, 2002
End Date: May 31, 2002
University of South Alabama
Distance Education Program
Community outreach education and distance learning project on sickle
cell anemia with the Kellog Center at Tuskegee University.
Start Date: June 1, 2002
End Date: June 30, 2003
March 2002
Vanderbilt University
Public Health Power Information Users II
The evaluation and verification of the impact of the Public Health
Power Information Users (PIU): A model for Overcoming Knowledge Fade.
Start Date: March 1, 2002
End Date: November 30, 2002
January 2002
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
North Carolina Health Information Online
Identify and select state and local health information resources that
key address health problems in NC. Create a database to access these
resources using the file structure of MedlinePlus and evaluate how
to link records in both databases.
Start Date: January 1, 2002
End Date: August 31, 2005
Funded in 2001
August 2001
George Washington University
PARTNERS for Consumer Health II
Provide learning opportunities for staff and patients at underserved
clinics in DC. Tailor resources and classes to specific clinic specialties.
Make available credible, usable resources for use by health professionals
and patients.
Start Date: August 1, 2001
End Date: July 31, 2002
July 2001
East Tennessee State University
Consumer Health Information Service
Will create a Consumer Health Information Service with the public
libraries to provide document delivery, reference services, web page
and training to the librarians and the public. Will provide document
delivery and training to physicians.
Start Date: July 1, 2001
End Date: April 30, 2006
University of Florida
Improving Information Skills for Florida Public Health Professionals
Will provide onsite Internet training to public health professionals
in 14 rural northern Florida counties. Will exhibit and provide demonstrations
at state professional association meetings.
Start Date: July 1, 2001
End Date: June 30, 2003
University of Virginia
Partnership for Cancer Information
Create and promote a cancer resource center to assist cancer patients
and their families in Southwest Virginia. Provide PubMed, MedlinePlus
and reference interview training to Center volunteers. Develop a Center
web site.
Start Date: July 1, 2001
End Date: June 30, 2003
June 2001
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Health Outreach to Faith Communities through a Parish Nurse Program
Will identify local parish nurses, assess computer literacy, Internet
access and knowledge and skills specific to health information. Will
provide training, a web site for parish nurses, and ongoing health
information support from the HS/HSL.
Start Date: June 1, 2001
End Date: April 30, 2006
