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AAMC Center for Health Justice Funding Opportunities
Each week, the AAMC Center for Health Justice updates a list of funding opportunities that will support health equity research and interventions.
Learn more about these opportunities here:
https://www.aamchealthjustice.org/career-development/funding
Digital Health Literacy Playbook for Rural Communities
This Digital Health Literacy Playbook, along with supplementary materials, will empower your organization to strategize, plan, deploy, and sustain programs for digital health literacy that make a difference in communities.
Read the full article here:
https://thecenterfordigitalequity.org/playbook/
Harborview’s Community Heart Failure Program: Providing care anywhere
Harborview Medical Center’s Community Heart Failure Program (CHFP) launched in October 2023, providing trauma-informed care directly to heart failure patients facing healthcare access barriers by visiting them at convenient locations. Co-founded by nurses Jaimie Pechan and Kate Smith and supported by the UW Heart Institute, the program focuses on marginalized groups, ensuring they receive necessary treatments and medications.
Read the full article here:
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/harborview-s-community-heart-failure-program-providing-care-anywhere/article_56f81a40-d770-11ee-960e-b30bbb75914f.html
Increasing Access to Physicians for American Indian Communities
Across the country, nearly 9 million people identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, and many call the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) region home. According to Indian Health Services, there’s a physician shortage ― a health-professional vacancy rate of 25% ― among doctors who care for this population.
The UW School of Medicine and the UW Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education are working to improve those statistics and increase the number of physicians in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Read more about how UW School of Medicine programs are working to address the physician shortage for American Indian and Alaska Native communities: https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/expanding-care-for-american-indian-communities/
Get to Know: Yvonne Simpson, Senior Director of Language Access and Cultural Advocacy
From the UW Medicine: The Huddle
Reducing barriers to care is a key priority for Interpreter Services at UW Medicine. And that’s just what Yvonne Simpson does every day — working to ensure that interpreter services are used consistently and effectively across our locations.
Simpson has been a Spanish interpreter at Harborview since 2014 and has led the department for more than three years. On July 1, 2023, she began a systemwide position as senior director of Language Access and Cultural Advocacy.
