Health

Grant: Federal Section 330 Community Health Center Grantees (Federally Qualified Health Centers)
Project Description: Increased Demand For Services Program (IDS). To respond to increased demand for Health Care for the Homeless services. Funds are being used both to sustain existing FTEs and to increase services in homeless sites.
Agency/Division Requesting Funds: Public Health / CHS / Health Care for the Homeless
Amount Requested: $408,355
Direct Funding / Pass-through: Direct
Status: Awarded
Anticipated Outcomes: Retain 2 jobs. Funds will support medical and social work services to an estimated 1,041 homeless patients over the grant period, including 656 uninsured. Projected 3,768 visits.
Estimated Duration: Two years
Estimated Costs for Completion: $408,355
King Co. Contact: Janna Wilson

Grant: Federal Section 330 Health Center Grantees (Federally Qualified Health Centers)
Project Description: Capital Improvement Program (CIP). For capital improvements, equipment, and electronic health record implementation support for health centers, through the Health Care for the Homeless federal grant. Application includes 5 separate project proposals: 3 renovation requests; 1 equipment; and 1 Electronic Health Record.
Agency/Division Requesting Funds: Public Health / CHS / Health Care for the Homeless
Collaborating Agencies/Partners:FMD (for 2 renovation projects at PHSKC clinic sites); and Seattle Housing Authority (for 1 renovation project for new homeless health service program to be sited in an SHA building)
Amount Requested: $1,025,635
Direct Funding / Pass-through: Direct
Status: Awarded
Anticipated Outcomes: CIP-Funded Jobs: 1.22 construction FTE; 0.13 FMD staff retained = 1.35 FTEs / Service Impacts: 620 new homeless patients provided with 4,240 visits.
Estimated Duration: Two Years
Estimated Costs for Completion: $10,148,495
King Co. Contact: Janna Wilson

Grant: Communities Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) - Tobacco Grant
Project Description: Project will implement tobacco prevention and control strategies across the county and in focus communities. Funds will support department and community partner activities that change systems, develop and implement policies, change the environment in which tobacco use occurs, and impacting population groups rather than individuals within two years. Focus is on (1) preventing youth from initiating tobacco use, (2) lowering smoking rates in high-risk populations, and (3) reducing secondhand smoke exposure for groups with inequitable exposure.
Agency/Division Requesting Funds: Public Health / Prevention / Chronic Disease
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Direct Funding / Pass-through: Direct
Status: Awarded.
Anticipated Outcomes: Estimate the strategies will reach 70% of the 1.9 million residents of King County through our media campaigns; 200,000 students in 300 schools and 40,000 at 5 colleges through school tobacco-free campus actions; 67,000 tenants in 13,676 public housing units through smoke-free policies; 5,000 workers through technical assistance to worksite programs, and 150,000 people though clinics, social service agencies and the Quitline.
Estimated Costs for Completion: $10,000,000
King Co. Contact: Jim Krieger
Funding Obligations, Restrictions or Encumbrances on County Government: N/A
Estimated Benefit to County's GF Relative to Projected 2010 Deficit: This grant does not replace currently appropriated funds.

Grant: Communities Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) - HEAL Grant
Project Description: Funds will be used to implement obesity, nutrition, physical activity and built environment strategies. Funds will support department and partners work to change systems, develop and implement policies, change the environment in which eating and physical activity occur, and impacting population groups rather than individuals within the two-year timeframe. Various healthy eating and active living policy, systems and environmental changes will be completed.
Agency/Division Requesting Funds: Public Health / Prevention / Chronic Disease
Amount Requested: $15,500,000
Direct Funding / Pass-through: Direct
Status: Awarded
Anticipated Outcomes: Estimate that media messages promoting healthy foods and our counter advertising will reach 70% of the 1.9 million population; 650,000 residents will be affected by city government actions including master plans, policies and zoning requirements; 200,000 students in 300 schools through school actions to implement nutrition and physical activities policies and farm to school programs; 150,000 residents in child care, public housing and other community settings through activities including nutritional and vending machine standards and enhanced access to physical activity sites; 3,000 workers through technical assistance to worksite programs; and 120,000 consumers through 120 economic development projects to improve healthy food choices in low income markets.
Estimated Costs for Completion: $15,500,000
King Co. Contact: Jim Krieger
Funding Obligations, Restrictions or Encumbrances on County Government: N/A
Estimated Benefit to County's GF Relative to Projected 2010 Deficit: This grant does not replace currently appropriated funds.

Grant: US HHS / ONC HITECH Act, Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program (Round 1)
Project Description: Create a health information exchange (HIE) to improve individual and population health and the overall quality of health care, as well as make more effective and efficient use of health system resources within King County’s safety net population.
Agency/Division Requesting Funds: Public Health Seattle-King County’s
Collaborating Agencies/Partners: PHSKC is applying on behalf of a consortium called the Partnership for Health Improvement through Stared Information (PHISI). The PHISI includes King County's Department of Community Human Services, providers, hospitals, academic programs, the mental health/substance abuse service system, quality organizations, local government, the United Way of King County.
Amount to be Requested: $16,292,179
Direct Funding / Pass-through: Direct
Status: Denied
Anticipated Outcomes:
Estimated Costs for Completion: $16,292,179
King Co. Contact: Rachel Quinn
Funding Obligations, Restrictions or Encumbrances on County Government:
Estimated Benefit to County’s GF Relative to Projected 2010 Deficit:

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