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Grant Details:
Application Due Date: February 2011 est

Description: 

Program Purpose:

The DHA coalition exists for the sole purpose of improving the delivery of healthcare services to the Mississippi Delta, a region known for high rates of poverty, low levels of educational attainment, lower quality of life and poor health. The needs that the collaborative projects of this initiative will address include: diabetes prevention and treatment, mental health, children's health and early childhood development, infant mortality, maternal health substance abuse, HIV testing and prevention for high risk populations, stroke prevention and early diagnosis, emergency & trauma care, workforce develop,ent, facility planning and improvements telemedicne and electronic health record systems.

Program Overview:

The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Office of Rural Health Policy competitively awarded one cooperative agreement in the amount of approzimately 24 million for five years to an alliance in the Mississippi Delta. Projects funded under this cooperative agreement may include but are not limited to:

- Improving communication and coordination amoung key health care providers across the Mississippi Delta Region

- Implementing health education, intervention, chronic disease management wellness promotion, and care coordination projects

- Improving access to health care services

- Improving quality health assessment data to promote information-based health services planning

- Increasing the number of health care providers serving the region

- Improving education and health literacy

- Increasing workforce training and entrepreneurial opportunities

- Utilizing telehealth and other health information technologies

- Improving medical billion

- Providing for new construction of public health related facilities

Project Service Areas:

This project serves 18 counties in the Mississippi Delta: Desoto, Tunica, Tate, Panola, Quitman, Coahoma, Tallahatchie, Bolivar, Sunflower, Carroll, Leflore, Washington, Humphreys, Holmes, Yazoo, Sharkey, Issaquena, and Warren.

Delta Health Alliance

Organization Information:
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Website: http://www.hhs.gov/

Contact Information:
Contact Name: Karen Fox
Contact Email: kfox@deltahealthalliance.org
Contact Phone: 662-686-3520

More Information:
http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/funding/deltahealthinitiative.htm