West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc Archive

To support a coordinating entity to align health care insurers, providers and community-based organizations to achieve better quality care, lower health care costs, and better health outcomes

For healthcare professionals’ continuing education to improve chronic pain care and reduce opioid overdoses and deaths

For sustaining and replicating rural pulmonary rehabilitation in West Virginia through the Grace Ann Dorney Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program

In conjunction with an Appalachian Regional Commission POWER grant, to develop sustainable employment for community health workers who serve high risk diabetes patients (over two years)

To address the health behaviors that have the greatest impact on chronic disease through evidenced-based programs (over two years)

To create a Grace Anne Dorney Pulmonary Rehabilitation program at Jackson General Hospital to serve patients with lung diseases

To support possible expansion of the “Try This WV” public health model across the region and Appalachia

To launch a public education campaign to raise families’ knowledge of the negative impact of excess sugar, and of strategies to curb intake

To analyze healthcare workforce data to develop strategic interventions to address nursing shortages, nursing education, and health promotion in West Virginia (over two years)

To provide medically-indicated food to people in need in partnership with healthcare providers and professional dieticians