King and company receive new grant

 

Roz King, MSN, RN,  CTS Graduate Student and Mariah McNamara, MD, MPH received notice of award for the Health Disparities Research grant through the Emergency Medicine Foundation in collaboration with the Emergency Nurses Association Foundation.

Title: Community Outreach Registered Nurse (CORN): A rural approach

Amount: $50,000 over one year

Description: A critical need exists to address patients’ difficulty with accessing primary and subspecialty care, which has resulted in frequent ED visits. The goal of the CORN project is to address rural healthcare disparities by:

1. Improving access to primary and subspecialty care follow up
2. Expanding adherence to care plans and healthcare markers (including increased medication adherence, housing stability, and food security)
3. Decreasing costs by impacting ED/EMS use through improved access to healthcare.

This project seeks to decrease disparities in access to primary and subspecialty care through the community outreach pilot program led by Amanda Young, MSN, RN. The goal of this project is to improve individual patient healthcare as reflected by follow-up rates, patients’ understanding of their own medical care, and promoting engagement in shared decision making in hopes of creating a decline in ED and EMS resource utilization.

These collaborative efforts would not have been possible without the support and assistance of a team of collaborators across the University of Vermont Health Network, The Larner College of Medicine, and our greater medical community. Deep appreciation is given particularly to Amy Dubuque, Peter Callas, Meaghan McKenna, Miles Lamberson, Tom Ahern, Deb Cannon, Julie Paris, Harry Leister, Nick Deavitt, Peg Gagne, Ramsey Herrington and Molly Stevens for helping to make this possible.

Congratulations to everyone involved.