HHS awards $39 million to states for increasing adoptions
The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services today awarded $39 million to 38 states and Puerto Rico for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care. States use the funds from this adoption incentive award to improve their child welfare programs.“All children deserve loving, safe and permanent homes,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “It is gratifying that most states continue to excel in promoting the adoption of children from foster care. I sincerely thank every adoptive family that has welcomed a child into their home.”
States receive $4,000 for every child adopted beyond their best year’s total, plus a payment of $8,000 for every child age 9 and older and $4,000 for every special needs child adopted above the respective baselines. The year 2007 is the baseline.
This year’s incentive award recipients completed more adoptions in 2009 than in the 2007 baseline year.
“America’s communities benefit when children grow up in stable families,” said David A. Hansell, HHS acting assistant secretary for children and families. “We’re very pleased that the adoption incentives program is helping states improve their programs and place more children into homes that are theirs forever.”
States and territories receiving today’s funding are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.
A list of each state’s adoption incentive award amount can be found at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/press/2010/fy10_adoption_incentive_awards.htm.
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HHS awards more than $14 million to support patient-centered outcomes research
Funds will support programs to help promote more informed health decisions and options that best fit an individual patient's needs and preferences.
“A healthier nation must include our underserved and minority communities. We now have the opportunity to determine which interventions truly help diverse populations achieve optimal levels of health,” Dr. Koh said.
Patient-centered outcomes research is designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options. The evidence is generated from research studies that compare drugs, medical devices, tests, surgeries, or ways to deliver health care.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded grants to Centers of Excellence at universities and medical schools in Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, and New York, and the HHS Office of Minority Health awarded a contract to Westat, Inc. of Rockville, MD.
“Patient-centered outcomes research must become a critical part of our strategy as a nation to understand and eliminate health disparities. This joint initiative complements the work that we are currently doing and is a testament to the value of partnerships,” said John Ruffin, PhD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
The awards are part of the investments made under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which appropriated $1.1 billion to support patient-centered outcomes research. Of that total, $400 million was authorized to be allocated at the discretion of the HHS Secretary for a variety of patient-centered outcomes research and related activities. These awards are one part of the overall HHS ARRA strategy, as described at www.hhs.gov/recovery and are funded from the funds allocated to the Secretary.
Office of Minority Health (OMH) and NIMHD will jointly evaluate the scientific progress of the recipients of the grant awards following standard NIH policies and procedures.
“Every citizen in our country deserves our best effort. With the help of the health information derived from these studies, we can take a step closer to achieving our goals and, at the same time, transform our communities into safer and healthier places for all people,” said Garth Graham, MD, deputy assistant secretary for minority health and director of the Office of Minority Health.
Grant awards by NIH under its Comparative Effectiveness Research for Eliminating Disparities (CERED) Program were made to:
| University of Alabama, Birmingham | $ 1,400,000 | ||||
| University of South Florida | 1,400,000 | ||||
| University of Hawaii at Manoa | 1,400,000 | ||||
| University of Illinois at Chicago | 1,399,995 | ||||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 1,396,894 | ||||
| University of New Mexico | 1,009,211 | ||||
| Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU | 1,400,000 | ||||
| Columbia University Health Sciences, NY | 1,399,981 | ||||
| University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences | 1,400,000 |
The OMH awarded $1,993,000 to Westat. The project will designate diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, including stroke and hypertension, and arthritis as the primary health conditions for which available and appropriate interventions will be identified from comparative effectiveness research. Interventions will be identified for dissemination and adoption among the racial and ethnic populations in two targeted geographic areas. These populations will include African-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and urban American Indians/Alaska Natives.
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