ACHIEVE GreatER initiative aims to reduce health care disparities in Cleveland and Detroit
· 01.03.2024 · 02:17:30 ··· ··· Friday ·· 5 (5)
WKYC Channel 3 The new ACHIEVE GReaTER initiative has come to Cleveland.
The National Institutes of Health has funded $18.2 million for a program in both Cleveland and Detroit to see if grassroots efforts can make a difference in health disparity.
It's called "Addressing Cardiometabolic Health Inequities by Early PreVEntion in the Great LakEs Region." otherwise known as "ACHIEVE GReaTER." The multi-institution partnership includes Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Wayne State University, and the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority to address health outcomes by using trained community health workers to build trust in communities that have too long felt their issues and needs were being overlooked due to systemic racism.
Fonda McClain is a certified community health worker. For the last six months, she's been visiting residents who live in the neighborhoods of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA). She sees healthcare gaps firsthand.
“Food insecurities, not having enough food, food sources in different areas, not having pharmacies in different areas, not addressing mental health, not only in adults but as well as children,” said McClain.
Those disparities often lead to poor health choices and eventually disease.
“Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common reasons why people die because of heart attack and stroke. And that happens to be a very common cause of mortality in urban African-Americans,” said Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and the chief academic and scientific officer for the Harrington Heart and Bastille Institute at the University hospitals, part of the University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute
Monica Robins has more on ACHIEVE GReaTER: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/health-hub/achieve-greater-initiative-reduce-health-care-disparities-cleveland-detroit/95-b0209667-bee7-4274-875d-18f4de4fe792
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