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Joint resolution accepting the University of Chicago Medical Center grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,000 for the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes Program.
Staff Summary
* The $5,000 University of Chicago Medical Center grant will be dedicated to software that will be used to recruit providers and deliver training.
* The purpose of LCHD/CHC provider participation in ECHO-Chicago is to improve patients care for the community's most common medical conditions including diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and obesity. In addition, it seeks to advance in-house capability to care for patients with conditions such as Hepatitis C, so we can reduce the need to refer patients to outside specialists.
* LCHD/CHC patients will benefit in the following ways: 1. ECHO-Chicago faculty are available for consultation with provider, even after providers complete an ECHO course; 2. After LCHD/CHC providers complete ECHO training, they will be able to provide advanced care to patients; and 3. ECHO faculty will help ECHO alumni with prior authorizations for referrals and 2nd and 3rd tier medications further reducing the need to refer patients to outside specialist, and will help to facilitate patient care.
* The result of this program will be better care, at lower cost, with more convenience for the patient.
* The $5,000 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County's adoption of the FY17 budget.
* The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Clinical Operations Unit; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide a legitimate increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $5,000 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded afte...
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