title
PROPOSED GRANT AWARD
Department: Cook County Health
Grantee: Cook County Health
Grantor: Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration
Request: Authorization to accept grant
Purpose: To expand the current training curriculum of the Family Medicine Residency Program to include a Maternal Health Care curriculum and expand scope of practice of Family Medicine residents in Maternal Healthcare.
Grant Amount: $622,669.00.
Grant Period: 7/1/2021 - 6/30/2022
Fiscal Impact: $622,669.00
Accounts: N/A.
Concurrences:
The Budget Department has received all requisite documents and determined the fiscal impact on Cook County, if any.
Summary: The Cook County Health (CCH) Primary Care Training and Enhancement-Community Prevention and Maternal Health (PCTE-CPMH) Program grant, Family Medicine Track (PCTE-FM) program seeks to expand the current training curriculum of the Cook County Health (CCH) Family Medicine Residency program to include a Maternal Health Care (MHC) curriculum. CCH proposes to: Expand scope of practice of Family Medicine residents in Maternal Health Care (MHC); Increase resident experience in MHC quality improvement and care management as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team; expand telehealth training for residents to improve access to MHC services; and to increase interprofessional collaboration, and the Family Medicine workforce in underserved areas trained in MHC skills. This program will train four Family Medicine residents in the full scope of maternity and perinatal care, including surgical obstetrics, at one of the CCH's eight family medicine centers, including Stroger Hospital on the westside of Chicago, serving at-risk and high need communities. CCH will also create a sustained structure for training that includes interdepartmental collaboration among medical school faculty, as well as collaborative efforts with other health care providers (such as CCH's HIV primary c...
Click here for full text