Parkview Health awarded $1.2M to improve community health

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The Indiana Department of Health has awarded Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health six grants totaling more than $1.2 million. Parkview says the funding will help improve several community health issues identified as priority areas for Hoosiers.

Parkview’s grants are part of $35 million in the initial round of statewide funding awarded as part of the state’s Health Issues and Challenges program. The health network is one of more than 150 entities to receive funding for the program, which focuses on tobacco use, food insecurity and obesity, and substance use disorder, among others.

“These funds enable us to create or enhance several programs that go beyond traditional levels of care,” said Dena Jacquay, chief administrative officer of Parkview Health. “Parkview continues to look for ways that we can improve or prevent health issues that impact the well-being of our community. We are grateful for the state’s support and look forward to seeing the positive results that will come from these grants.”

Parkview’s grant categories and amounts are listed below:

Food Insecurity

• $643,381 to create the Food Assistance and Support Team program. FAST will connect patients and healthcare providers with community and government-based food assistance programs to improve the health of food insecure individuals.

Chronic Disease

• $150,000 for an Asthma Education and Management Program, which will include education, in-home environmental visits and an emergency department call-back program.
• $148,344 for Parkview’s Neuroscience Outreach Network to support patients with elevated blood pressure or chronic hypertension.
• $97,980 for a diabetes prevention program that will use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Diabetes Prevention Program curriculum.

Community Health Worker

• $149,986 for a Pediatric Medical Complexity Community Health Worker program, which will assist families in caring for their medically complex children.
• $94,000 for its Oncology Patient Navigators, a team of social workers who work with cancer patients and their families.