AHRQ Awards Patient Safety
Grants
November 7, 2003 - The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) Nov. 3 announced the awarding of nearly
$4 million to fund 13 projects designed to improve patient
safety. Six of the grants will assess patient safety risks
to patients and devise ways to prevent them; the remaining
seven will implement safe practices that have proven to eliminate
or reduce known hazards to patient safety.
The grants build on the Agency's 3-year, $165 million investment
in patient safety research. The Agency will provide up to
50 percent of the total cost of the projects, while grant
recipients will be required to provide a minimum of 50 percent
of the total costs. The grantees are listed below.
Risk Assessment Grants:
Boston Medical Center: $200,000.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN: $200,000.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA: $199,968.
Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA: $187,895.
Oregon Department of Human Services: $165,205.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: $139,400.
Implementation Grants:
Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation, Eugene, OR: $498,720.
University of Missouri-Columbia: $470,620.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: $454,590.
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Oakland, CA: $443,767.
University of Iowa: $400,000.
Cincinnati Foundation for Biomedical Research and Education:
$327,721.
University of Wisconsin-Madison: $270,175.
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