Montgomery County - 25 Grants

Grantee Organization: Mobile Medical Care
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant Amount: 20-003 ($140,000) 
Grant Project Description: The program will expand access to health care services by increasing clinical capacity at the existing East Montgomery Service Center from 2.5 days to 3.5 days per week and increase access to behavioral health services from one to two days per week. The expanded capacity will provide comprehensive healthcare services to low-income uninsured individuals and Medicaid and Medicare enrollees. Expansion of the bilingual integrated behavioral health services that MobileMed currently provides is a collaboration with Aspire Counseling.
Organization Contact Information: Mobile Medical Care


Grantee Organization: Vietnamese American Services
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant Amount: 20-004 ($75,000) 
Grant Project Description: Vietnamese American Services focuses on serving low-income clients with limited English proficiency. Vietnamese residents surveyed by Vietnamese American Services report that they face language barriers in accessing care. Only two local primary care physicians speak Vietnamese and these providers are not accepting new Medicaid patients. The program will assist Vietnamese senior residents to register for health insurance and gain access to healthcare. A CHW position funded under the grant will help facilitate referrals to the MobileMed clinic and help connect these seniors to existing resources. Funding could lead to the establishment of the first senior day care center serving Vietnamese residents in Montgomery County.
Organization Contact Information: Vietnamese American Services


Grantee Organization: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services 
Focus Area: Diabetes/Food Security
Grant Amount: 20-029 ($240,000) 
Grant Project Description: This program by the Montgomery County DHHS proposes a multipronged approach to addressing emergency department use through better disease management among patients with Type II diabetes. DHHS will use risk prediction to identify eligible patients. Once enrolled, patients will have access to the Chronic Care Model (CCM) and other wrap around services, including social resources to overcome social determinants of health largely delivered by CHWs. This project is highly focused on decreasing diabetes-related Emergency Department (ED) use with a target reduction of 10%.
Organization Contact Information: Montgomery County DHHS

Grantee Organization: Chinese Culture and Community Service Center 
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant Amount: 19-008 ($150,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would support a new pain management initiative that is designed to reduce reliance on opioids for chronic pain.  Services would include acupuncture and psycho-social support group sessions based on the Stanford Model of Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs.  The project would also work individually with patients to access their medical and mental condition and develop a care plan to address depression, anxiety, and other psychosocial issues while simultaneously working toward the tapering of medication levels.

Organization Contact Information: http://www.ccacc-dc.org

Grantee Organization: Family Services Inc
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 19-011 ($300,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project is a multigenerational initiative utilizing a multisectoral approach to address health and social inequities focused on the families in and around the James Daley Elementary School.  The Thriving Germantown Initiative utilizes a collective impact model and multiple intervention strategies to provide services to a highly diverse, low-income community in Germantown.  The Initiative is currently supported with a $250,000 two-year grant from the CHRC scheduled to end June 30, 2019 and leveraged $1.2 million in additional private investment.  A year and a half into program implementation, the program has served 236 children out of a promised 240 for the two year grant. The Initiative is envisioned to be a five-year pilot program and is in the middle of year two.  This proposal requests funding for years three and four to sustain the program.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.fs-inc.org/

Grantee Organization: Cornerstone Montgomery
Focus Area: Behavioral Health
Grant Amount: 19-017 ($325,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would expand access to somatic and preventative care services to an estimated 565 individuals who are living in poverty, medically frail, experience comorbid health and behavioral health disorders, and are senior citizens.  The applicant would collaborate with Nexus Montgomery, a consortium of six hospitals in Montgomery County, to review data quarterly and identify individuals in need of services.  The hospitals would work with the applicant to collect and track hospital utilization data.
Organization Contact Information: https://www.cornerstonemontgomery.org/


Grantee Organization:
 Korean Community Services Center, Inc. 
Focus Area: Diabetes & Food Security
Grant Amount: 19-026 ($180,000) 
Grant Project Description: The project award supports the development of Project SHINE (Staying Healthy with Improved Nutrition and Exercise). The grantee is delivering new services (nutrition education and exercise program) to low-income and limited English Asian Americans. The program addresses health disparities by developing multi-sectoral partnerships to bring nutrition education and physical exercise programs to this population in settings that are more easily accessible such as Korean and Chinese language schools and churches, and through the MobileMed program. 

Organization Contact Information: http://www.kcscgw.org/​


Grantee Organization: Family Services, Inc. 
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant Amount: 17-003 ($250,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant will support the Thriving Germantown initiative, which focuses on increasing access to health and social support services in an underserved, low-income, and diverse community around the James Daly elementary school, a Title I elementary school. The Thriving Germantown initiative utilizes a collective impact model and builds on the 'Promise Neighborhood' concept, which tracks 15 indicators across the cradle-to-grave continuum for low-income families. The Thriving Germantown initiative provides a multisectoral approach to improving both health and educational outcomes and offers the potential to leverage significant additional funding from private philanthropic organizations that may be replicable in other underserved and diverse areas of the state. CHRC grant funds are being used to support staff salaries and other program costs.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.fs-inc.org/

Grantee Organization: Muslim Community Center
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 17-009 ($150,000) 
Grant Project Description: This  two-year grant supports expanded access to integrated behavioral health and substance use treatment services in the community and remove the stigma of seeking behavioral services among the minority population served at the Center. The organization currently offers part-time behavioral health services to Montgomery Cares patients, and this project will expand the capacity of the Center to serve additional patients who are not Montgomery Cares patients, i.e., Medicaid, private insurance, and Medicare.  Grant funds will be utilized for clinical staff salaries.
Organization Contact Information: http://mccmd.org/services/medical-clinic​

Grantee Organization: Institute for Public Health Innovation
Focus Area: Childhood Obesity
Grant Amount: 17-010 ($80,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to support the implementation of local school wellness councils in four Title I Elementary Schools in Montgomery County (in Long Branch/Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Germantown). The project will expand an existing project of Healthy Montgomery’s Transforming Community Initiatives, which is one of six sites selected to participate in a national initiative funded by the Trinity Health System.
Organization Contact Information: www.institutephi.org/

Grantee Organization: Chinese Culture and Community Service Center
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 16-014 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant is being utilized to support the relocation and expansion of the Pan Asian Volunteer Health Clinic, which serves the low-income Asian American population in Montgomery County. The clinic will provide primary care, case management, prescription assistance, lab testing, and free screening and vaccinations for Hepatitis B. The Clinic is staffed by volunteer physicians and part-time administrative staff. Grant funding is being utilized to the support the salary costs of program staff. 
Organization Contact Information: www.ccacc-dc.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: Family Services, Inc. 
Focus Area: Behavioral Health
Grant Amount: 15-006 ($250,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant provides funding to expand Family Services' CareLink program to Holy Cross Hospital and Holy Cross Germantown Hospital. The CareLink program was previously successfully implemented at Washington Adventist Hospital and Shady Grove Hospital. The program targets individuals at a high risk for readmission who have behavioral health needs and/or medical conditions complicated by socio-economic factors. Grant funding is utilized to support the salary costs program staff.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.fs-inc.org/

Grantee Organization: Mobile Medical Care, Inc. 
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grants and Amount: 14-010 ($480,000)
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the opening of a new multicultural safety net health clinic in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Montgomery County. The clinic includes eight exam rooms for adult and pediatric medical care. Grant funding is being utilized to support salary costs of staff as well as equipment and supplies during the start up for the clinic. Mobile Medical Care Inc. leveraged this grant funding to receive $900,000 in Federal New Access Point funds and to become designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center.
Organization Contact Information: www.mobilemedicalcare.org/

Grantee Organization: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services 
Focus Area: Behavioral Health
Grant and Amount: LHIC 13-006 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported efforts The analysis of the healthcare and social service needs for patients presenting at local hospital EDs with behavioral health conditions. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services carried out this program in collaboration with the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County.
Organization Contact Information:  http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/hhs/

Grantee Organization: Mobile Medical, Inc.
Focus Area: Behavioral Health
Grant and Amount: 12-006 ($136,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the opening of a new primary care clinic in Rockville, co- locating services with existing behavioral health care services provided by Montgomery County. The program integrated primary care and behavioral health treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and other clinical issues through collaboration with community organizations. Grant funds were utilized to support salary costs. The grantee reported providing services for 469 new patients through 815 visits over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: www.mobilemedicalcare.org

Grantee Organization: Community Clinic, Inc.
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 12-008 ($280,000)
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant expanded services for high-risk patients in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties by supporting the integration of Community Health Workers and other staff into its primary care clinical program. CHRC grant funding was utilized to enhance Community Clinic Inc.’s (CCI) electronic medical records system and support the salaries of program staff. The grantee reported serving over 4,919 individuals through 10,680 visits. CCI leveraged this grant funding to receive $1,926,000 in federal and private funding.
Organization Contact Information: www.cciweb.org

Grantee Organization: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services 
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: LHIC 12-014 ($25,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Montgomery County Health Improvement Coalition utilized grant funds to establish six workgroups to address the six priorities for community health improvement; (1) Behavioral health, (2) Cancers, (3) Cardiovascular disease, (4) Diabetes, (5) Maternal and infant Health, and (6) Obesity.  These workgroups are tasked with developing, executing and evaluating action plans targeting the priority areas. utilized grant funding to support two workgroups, of their existing coalition, Healthy Montgomery.​
Organization Contact Information:  http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/hhs/

Grantee Organization: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
Focus Area: Primary Care 
Grant and Amount: 09-008 ($224,100)
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the expansion of health care and preventative dental services at four of the school based health centers in the county. Funds supported the purchase of equipment and the provision of fluoride varnishes to children in the school system. The grantee reported nearly 900 students were served through 1,420 primary cares visits and more than 1,700 fluoride varnish applications over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/hhs/

Grantee Organization: Spanish Catholic Center
Grant and Amount: 09-012 ($300,000) 
Focus Area: Dental
Grant Project Description: The two-year grant supported a program providing services in the Montgomery County Dental Pilot program. This included preventative, diagnostic, and emergency services, such as regular cleanings, x-rays, and extractions. Grant funds were utilized to enable Spanish Catholic Center to increase the number of days the program served patients from two to four, with one day exclusively dedicated to serving pediatric patients. This program served more than 4,130 individuals and leveraged an additional $90,000 in program funding. 
Organization Contact Information: Spanish Catholic Center​

Grantee Organization: Muslim Community Center
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 09-015 ($240,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant allowed expansion of a diabetes treatment program in the community center. Grant funds supported primary and specialty care for diabetic patients and worked with patients to receive diabetic education and regular tests such as HbA1c and retina exams. Grant funds supported the staff salaries for clinic staff. In 2011 MCC was the recipient of clinical staff from Kaiser Permanente’s Community Ambassadors Program, which sustained the Clinic's expanded capacity and diabetes program for an additional three years. The grantee reported serving 2,296 patients through 20,616 visits over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: Muslim Community Center - Medical Clinic​

Grantee Organization: Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 09-016 ($375,000)
Grant Project Description: The CHRC grant supported the Montgomery Cares program through the development of a Specialty Treatment Access Team which provided care coordination and case management services for the most complex specialty care patients. The grant also supported the Specialty Care Workgroup which focused on high-level change, coordination, and policy development to identify system level barriers to care and creating sustainable access to specialty care. Grant funds provided linkages and the specialty care referral process between safety net providers, care coordinators, and specialty care physicians.
Organization Contact Information: www.primarycarecoalition.org

Grantee Organization: St. Luke’s House
Grant and Amount: 08-011 ($350,000) 
Focus Area: Information Technology 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the planning and implementation of a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record system in St. Luke's House's Outpatient Mental Health Clinic. Grant funds were utilized to assist in costs related to hardware and software expenses, staff training and project management and implementation. The transition to electronic health records allowed the organization to build a system mandated that clinical and program staff follow procedures to match Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR). 
Organization Contact Information: www.stlukeshouse.org

Grantee Organization: Mobile Medical Care, Inc. 
Focus Area: Primary Care
Grant and Amount: 08-026 ($500,000)
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported increased access to primary care and integration of behavioral health care services in a model that leverages grant funding with existing County resources. The grant funds enabled MobileMed to open a new primary care clinic in Rockville which was co-located with existing behavioral health care services provided by Montgomery County. The grantee reported that the clinic provided services to over 5,791 patients through 12,641 visits over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: www.mobilemedicalcare.org/

Grantee Organization: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services 
Focus Area: Behavioral Health
Grant and Amount: 07-009 ($491,854) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the Under One Roof program which extended primary care services to individuals through the Department's Outpatient Addictions Program. Services included comprehensive and coordinated care at the DHHS's Methadone Clinic, Drug Court Program and the Threshold Psychiatry Clinic. Furthermore, Under One Roof was able to provide podiatry specialty care to patients referred from any Community Health Link clinic in the county. It also served as a satellite clinic for the Gude Men's Shelter in Rockville. The grantee reported that 1,510 individuals were served through 4,252 visits over the duration of the grant. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/hhs/

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