Healthy Communities Partnership Receives Grants
The Healthy Communities partnership between CHI Health and the IPH recently received three grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support population health work in the Omaha community.
The team received a $860,000 grant to improve care transitions for patients who have a combination of a chronic disease and health-related social needs. CHI Health at Home will hire two additional community health workers to coordinate health and social care.
In an extended partnership with the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program and Creighton’s family medicine residency program, the team also received $780,000 to launch a SAFE Clinic at CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center -University Campus for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking to receive ongoing, integrated care. Lillia Cherkasskiy, MD, CHI Health family physician and assistant professor and associate residency program director with Creighton’s Department of Family Medicine, will serve as medical director.
Cherkasskiy has worked on the plan for the CHI Health Outpatient Medical Safe Haven clinic for the last two years.
“Our goal is to open a comprehensive clinic for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Omaha, to bring wrap-around services to the survivors in one location at a single visit, including social work, behavioral health, medical follow-up, addiction treatment, patient advocacy and legal aid,” Cherkasskiy said. “We hope that our efforts will decrease revictimization and make the Omaha metro community safer for vulnerable residents.
The third award, for $703,486, will fund a medically tailored meal pilot program and open request for proposals (RFP) from Omaha-based nonprofits that want to be considered to design, implement and collect data to evaluate the short-term dietary intervention for CHI Health patients who have a chronic health condition and identified food insecurity.
