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    Maryland Department of Health
    Maryland Community Health Resources Commission

    Prince George's County - 24 Grants

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    Grantee Organization: Prince George's County Health Department
    Focus Area: Women's Health
    Grant and Amount: 20-006 ($300,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This program will support a care management program to improve reproductive and maternal health as well as expand care management to improve health outcomes for high-risk racial/ethnic minority females who are pre-conceptual, pregnant, or post-partum. The target population is women referred to the Department's Administrative Care Coordination Unit (ACCU), which has a caseload of 1,250 women. The proposal states that the program will bill third-party payers for care coordination services. The proposal states that the program will emphasize addressing social determinants of health.
    Organization Contact Information: Prince George's County Health Department

    Grantee Organization: Access to Wholistic & Productive Living Institute
    Focus Area: Women's Health
    Grant and Amount: 20-007 ($335,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This program will fund the Bright Beginnings of Prince George's County project to assist high-risk, racial/ethnic minority women who are pregnant, postpartum or diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and/or Type 2 diabetes access to needed health and social services in a timely and effective manner. CHWs will be assigned to provide care coordination, patient navigation, and health education services to assist women to overcome social determinants of health and adopt preventive behaviors to achieve better health outcomes. A lifestyle coach will support healthy eating and active living measures.
    Organization Contact Information: Access to Wholistic & Productive Living Institute​

    Grantee Organization: Primary Care Coalition
    Focus Area: Diabetes/Food Security
    Grant and Amount: 20-022 ($140,000) 
    Grant Project Description: Primary Care Coalition will implement the Food Is Medicine model, an evidence-based medical food and nutrition intervention to serve vulnerable, low-income food insecure patients. The program will offer two service pathways: navigation to food assistance for individuals without a diabetes or prediabetes diagnosis; or referral to a 12-week nutrition education program with food assistance. Primary Care Coalition will use a variant of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (Stanford Protocol) which is tailored to work effectively in resource constrained settings. Clinical and biometric measures will be assessed. The grant also supports the hiring of nine CHWs who link provider referred patients to food assistance and nutrition education. This program will implement mechanisms and tools that providers can use to ensure referrals to the Food Is Medicine program.
    Organization Contact Information: Primary Care Coalition

    Grantee Organization: Mary’s Center
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality
    Grant and Amount: 18-003 ($170,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This project would implement the evidence-based CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting programs for expectant and new Latina mothers in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. The group care programs provide prenatal and pediatric services and help participants to increase their personal health care autonomy and build contacts and social bonds with other women. The program is replicable with the target population in other areas of the state and offers the potential to help improve birth outcomes.
    Organization Contact Information: www.maryscenter.org/​​

    Grantee Organization: Community Clinic Inc 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality
    Grant Amount: 18-004 ($170,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This project would implement the CenteringPregnancy project for at-risk, low-income minority and immigrant women in northern Prince George's County, the jurisdiction in the state with the lowest percentage of women receiving adequate prenatal care. Women participating in the CenteringPregnancy program would benefit from a supportive network of other women going through the same experience. Services would be provided at CCI’s clinic in Greenbelt. The program is replicable with the target population in other areas of the state and offers the potential to help improve birth outcomes.
    Organization Contact Information: www.cciweb.org/

    Grantee Organization: Prince George’s County Fire/EMS 
    Focus Area: Primary Care
    Grant and Amount: 18-005 ($175,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This Mobile Integrated Health project would reduce preventable 911 calls through the use of community paramedics who would interact with at-risk residents who frequently call 911 for non-emergent conditions. The integrated health team would connect these residents with quality healthcare services and other necessary community supports. The program offers the 2 potential to help reduce avoidable EMS and hospital utilization services and is replicable in other areas of the state. 
    Organization Contact Information:  www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/222/FireEmergency-Medical-Services ​

    Grantee Organization: Greater Baden Medical Services 
    Focus Area: Dental
    Grant and Amount: 18-008 ($300,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This project would increase access to dental care and nutritional counseling for low-income adults in Prince George’s County, the county with the lowest concentration of dental professionals per 100,000 residents when compared to other jurisdictions in Maryland. The project would partner with Lyft to provide rides to appointments for residents lacking access to transportation and would provide nutritional counseling aimed at assisting individuals in choosing to make healthier lifestyle choices.
    Organization Contact Information:  http://www.gbms.org/ ​

    Grantee Organization: La Clinica del Pueblo 
    Focus Area: Food Security and Obesity
    Grant and Amount: 18-014 ($140,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This project would implement a school and community-focused project that uses culturally and linguistically appropriate strategies to increase knowledge about healthy lifestyles, increases access to healthy foods, and encourages engagement in physical activity targeting 720 low-income Latino high school students and families. The program would create a Health 4 Promotion club with Youth Health Promoters in schools, health education workshops at parents' meetings, annual intergenerational soccer tournaments and health fairs, and clinicalbased activities, with one-on-one health education sessions targeting mothers or women of childbearing age.
    Organization Contact Information:  www.lcdp.org​​

    Grantee Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore 
    Focus Area: Primary Care 
    Grant and Amount:17-001 ($1,200,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being used to expand access to primary and preventative care services and promote care continuity in Prince George’s County, an area of Maryland with some of the highest chronic disease burdens in the state that would benefit from increased access to primary care services in the community. The project provides a specific emphasis on low-income individuals who present at the emergency department of the Prince George’s Hospital Center for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and seeks to link these residents with routine and ongoing primary care services at a new center in Cheverly. The project would also deploy the Governor’s Wellmobile to reach patients where they live. CHRC grant funds are being utilized to support the salary costs in the clinic and Wellmobile. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.umaryland.edu​

    Grantee Organization: Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Washington D.C. 
    Focus Area: Dental 
    Grant and Amount:16-002 ($200,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to open a new, comprehensive, four-chair dental clinic in Temple Hills, Prince George's County, to serve dental services to low-income residents. The applicant currently operates two other dental clinics in the region, and the new (third) proposed clinic is focusing exclusively on serving low-income and un/underinsured residents in Prince George's County. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support the salary costs of the practitioners for the first two years after clinic opening. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.catholiccharitiesdc.org/

     Grantee Organization: La Clinica del Pueblo
    Focus Area: Primary Care 
    Grant and Amount: 16-011 ($300,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This three-year grant is being used to support the opening of a new Federally Qualified Health Center site in Hyattsville, Prince George's County, which serves the Langley Park, Hyattsville, Riverdale, Mt. Rainer, and Bladensburg communities, providing access to medical, behavioral health, and other social support services. In August 2015, the applicant secured a FY 2015 New Access Point grant from HRSA to support the new site in Hyattsville and has leveraged additional funding from private foundations. Grant funds are being utilized to support the salary costs of program personnel at the new health center site. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.lcdp.org

    Grantee Organization: Community Clinic, Inc.
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality 
    Grant and Amount: 15-001 ($110,000)
    Grant Project Description: This one-year grant provides funding for CCI to expand services at its newly opened prenatal clinic in Greenbelt and access to a range of comprehensive women's health services. Grant funding is utilized to cover the salary costs of one FTE RN and one FTE Community Health Worker (CHW), as the prenatal clinic is currently staffed with three part-time volunteer NPs. Services enabled under the grant include care coordination, screening for depression, and screening/care management for diabetes. This proposal would serve Prince George's County, a jurisdiction identified by DHMH as a priority area. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.cciweb.org

    Grantee Organization: Access to Wholistic and Productive Living 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality 
    Grant and Award: 14-001 ($100,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports the expansion of services for pregnant and early postpartum women in order to improve birth outcomes and rates of first trimester prenatal care in underserved communities in Prince George’s County. Services include targeted case management, home visiting, linkage to prenatal care, smoking cessation services and/or health education. Grant funds are being utilized to hire staff to increase the number of zip codes in Prince George’s County served by the Bright Beginnings program. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.guide.awpli.org

    Grantee Organization: Mary’s Center 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality
    Grant and Amount: 14-002 ($300,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports an effort to reduce health disparities and the State’s infant mortality rate by expanding its current prenatal services at the grantee’s Adelphi, MD clinic. Services also include the provision of primary health care for women of reproductive age. Grant funds will be used to support the salary costs of a Primary Care Adult/Family Medical Doctor, a Certified Nurse Midwife, a Family Support Worker, and a Life Cycle Health Educator at the Adelphi health center. 
    Organization Contact Information: http://www.maryscenter.org/

    Grantee Organization: MedChi – Prince George’s Health Department
    Focus Area: Informaton Technology
    Grant and Amount: 12-011 ($75,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported implementation of eHealth for Prince George’s County. The program provided EHR and practice management systems for four county owned health clinics. Grant funds were utilized to pay for a component of the needed hardware upgrades, licensing fees, and implementation costs. 
    Organization Contact Information: https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1588/Health-Services​

    Grantee Organization: Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc. 
    Focus Area: Behavioral Health
    Grant and Amount: 12-014 ($198,318) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant integrated behavioral health care at the Mary’s Center's primary care service locations in Silver Spring and Adelphi. The program served both individuals with a mental health diagnosis     as well as those suffering from medical conditions such as chronic pain, hypertension, diabetes and histories of poor adherence to medical treatment plans. Grant funds were utilized to support staff salaries. The program provided services to 4,394 individuals and provided through 9,386 visits over the duration of the grant.
    Organization Contact Information: http://www.maryscenter.org/

     

    Grantee Organization: Prince George’s County Health Department. 
    Focus Area: Primary Care
    Grant and Amount: LHIC 12-015 ($25,000) 
    Grant Project Description: The Prince George's Healthcare Action Coalition utilized grant funding to address several goals of the Coalition: health care access, chronic disease, birth outcomes, and infectious diseases.  Grant funds were utilized for the following strategies: (1) to develop a safety net services directory to inform low-income and uninsured residents about options for accessing primary and specialty care services in the community; (2) to expand HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention education efforts to include the use of social media technology, promoting culturally sensitive messages to educate the public about HIV prevention.
    Organization Contact Information: https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1588/Health-Services

    Grantee Organization: Access to Wholistic & Productive Living 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality
    Grant and Amount: 11-002 ($150,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the expansion of the Bright Beginnings program which is aimed at reducing infant mortality and morbidity in vulnerable populations. The program enrolled participants through community outreach and then connected them to prenatal care, health insurance coverage, and social services. The program enrolled 111 women over the duration of the grant. 
    Organization Contact Information: www.guide.awpli.org

    Grantee Organization: Prince George's Health Department
    Focus Area: Behavioral Health
    Grant and Amount: 11-009 ($210,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported a re-entry program that provided services at Adam’s House, which offers ex-offenders assistance in successfully transitioning back to the community. The program included behavioral and primary health care services, addiction services, life skills education, parenting development, employment services, and transportation assistance. Grant funds supported staff salaries. The grantee reported serving 82 individuals through 984 visits over the duration of the grant. 
    Organization Contact Information: https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1588/Health-Services

    Grantee Organization: Access to Wholistic & Productive Living 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality
    Grant and Amount: 10-001 ($100,000) 
    Grant Project Description: The two-year grant supported the Bright Beginnings Program which provided targeted case management services, health education, smoking cessation support, and linkages to early prenatal and post-partum care for women living in zip codes 20743 and 20746 (Seat Pleasant, Fairmount Heights, Capitol Heights and Suitland). Grant funds were utilized to support the costs of operations and the services of a case manager. The grantee reported serving 83 women through 386 visits over the duration of the grant.
    Organization Contact Information:     www.guide.awpli.org

    Grantee Organization: Pregnancy Aid Centers 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality 
    Grant and Amount: 10-005 ($300,000)
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the provision of pregnancy services by a multidisciplinary team and targeted pregnant teens in Prince George’s County. The program provided services aimed at reducing the incidence of repeat pregnancies in the teen population by providing family planning services. Grant funds were utilized to support staff salaries. The grantee reported providing services to 379 patients over 3,812 over the duration of the grant.
    Organization Contact Information:     www.pregnancyaidcenter.org

    Grantee Organization: Prince George's Health Department 
    Focus Area: Infant Mortality 
    Grant and Amount: 10-006 ($250,000) 
    Grant Project Status: Closed 
    Grant Project Description: This two-year grant funded the Tapestry Program which provided perinatal services to low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women in Prince George's County. The health department partnered with the University of Maryland to provide multidisciplinary services high risk women of reproductive age, including those with HIV/AIDS. Grant funds were utilized to support salary costs and support the services provided under this grant. The grantee reported providing services to 165 women through 987 visits over the duration of the grant.  
    Organization Contact Information: https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1588/Health-Services

    Grantee Organization: Prince George’s Health Department
    Focus Area: Dental
    Grant and Amount: 08-020 ($299,164) 
    Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the expansion of existing dental care resources in Prince George’s County for low-income children and their families to expand oral disease prevention and health promotion. Grant funds were utilized to staff a dentist, a dental hygienist, a dental assistant, and a case manager as well as support the School-Based Program's dental Sealant Program and the Early Childhood Caries Program at the Cheverly Health Center. 
    Organization Contact Information: https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1588/Health-Services​

    Grantee Organization: Greater Baden Medical Services
    Focus Area: Primary Care 
    Grant and Amount: 08-025 ($500,000) 
    Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the opening of a new health center in Brandywine, MD, as well as the expansion of primary care and prenatal services at GBMS’s Capitol Heights, MD facility. Grant funds supported the salaries of clinical and support staff and to purchase necessary equipment and supplies. This program served 3,519 individuals and provided over 6,000 visits over the duration of the grant.
    Organization Contact Information:     www.gbms.org/

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