This initiative will improve the health and quality of life for older adults by ensuring that prescribed medications are necessary and appropriate. Partners will improve organizational policies and practices around prescribing and deprescribing patterns, integrate...
Building Resilience in Substance Abusing Families (BRISA) will create an integrated family model that addresses parental substance use and the underlying trauma related causes, while simultaneously building familial resiliency. This project will engage primarily...
American Cancer Society will partner with Macomb Community Action’s Meals on Wheels, area hospitals, and the Macomb County Health Department to increase the colorectal cancer screening rates in older adults. This program will integrate cancer screening into meal...
Live Well for Your Heart will establish referral partnerships between dental clinics, primary care practitioners, and public health practitioners to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults ages 30 to 74 with no history of cardiovascular events in rural...
The goal of The Grand Rapids Encompassing Addiction Treatment with Maternal Obstetric Management (GREAT MOMs) Family Medicine Residency Center expansions is to create a coordinated care model for the mother-baby dyad, which will include neonatal and infant care...
This project will integrate a social isolation and loneliness screening into various health services and social programs. The MidMichigan Foundation and its partners will create a uniform assessment for social isolation, connect older adults to existing services,...
The Region IV Area Agency on Aging and community stakeholders will create a community wide strategy for an integrated, sustainable, and age-friendly system of care delivery in Southwest Michigan for older adults with complex care needs and their caregivers. The...
This planning grant will engage stakeholders to discuss the non-emergency medical transportation challenges in the Upper Peninsula, create a plan to address those challenges, and identify strategies to integrate transportation services across healthcare providers,...
Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness will complete its planning grant to investigate linkages between housing and health care and identify opportunities for integration in order to improve health outcomes for older adults experiencing homelessness. These funds will...
