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We collaborated with New Hampshire’s two other Project ECHO Hubs (Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the NH Citizens Health Initiative at the University of New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice) and served as an official Training Center, along with 98 other training centers across the county, to deliver the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network ECHO….
JSI is currently working on behalf of the Maine CDC Diabetes Prevention and Control Program Team (DPCP) to refresh and redesign the program’s existing website, RethinkDiabetes.org. The website redesign will facilitate Maine residents’ easy and convenient access to important diabetes prevention classes, resources, and support mechanisms, ensuring RethinkDiabetes.org is utilized across the state as a…
JSI is providing comprehensive support to the Wyoming Primary Care Office in developing data and systems to assess and enhance access to care in the state, and to develop and maintain federal shortage designations, including Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/Ps). The analyses covers the three primary care disciplines of medical, dental, and mental/behavioral…
COVID-19 underscored the importance of protecting frontline workers. Just prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, JSI worked with Massachusetts’ Metro Regional Preparedness Coalition and its member cities and towns within the 128 corridor to design and conduct a series of HSEEP-compliant tabletop exercises focusing on strengthening municipal plans to…
COVID-19 and the shortages of equipment and supplies like PPE, ventilators, IV pumps, oxygen, and personal protective equipment brought the importance of crisis standards of care (CSC) planning into sharper focus. JSI was contracted to assist the Vermont Department of Health (VDH) to develop a train-the-trainer program to educate stakeholders on the VT Crisis Standards…
REACH LoWELL is an initiative funded by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which focuses on effective racial and ethnic approaches to community health. REACH LoWELL seeks to eliminate disparities among the Southeast Asian and Hispanic/LatinX residents of Lowell, MA, with an emphasis on those who are at high risk of uncontrolled or poorly controlled…
JSI researchers conducted a qualitative inquiry into strategies to support the financial sustainability of the Episcopal Health Foundation's Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (TACHI). Researchers spoke with key informants—both nationally and within Texas—to better understand steps that TACHI can take to ensure that its sites achieve financial sustainability. Key research questions included: What is…
With funding from a discretionary grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, JSI is providing assessment, training and technical assistance (TTA) services for all ten of the adult specialty treatment drug courts in the NH Drug Court Program (NH DCP). To establish TTA needs, the DCATT team reviewed statewide process evaluation and assessment reports, conducted initial site…
In April 2019, TACHC engaged JSI Research & Training Institute Inc. (JSI) to conduct a retrospective evaluation of their Optimizing Comprehensive Clinical Care (OC3) program, which focuses on improving the access, efficiency, and clinical outcomes of participating community health centers (CHCs) in Texas through one-on-one coaching, learning collaboratives, and group training. JSI utilized a mixed…
JSI is investigating field-based approaches to strengthen domestic-violence prevention research. The contract includes three main phases of work. Phase 1 involves internal assessment and planning through engagement with Blue Shield of California (BSCF) staff and a document review to gain a baseline understanding of recent BSCF efforts to strengthen domestic-violence prevention research. Phase 2 involves a…
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