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January 27, 2010—Dr. Danette Glassy receives a grant from Healthy Futures for improving Health Outcomes for Young Children. This grant is funded by Macneil pharmaceutical, through the American Academy of Pediatrics. 7 grants were awarded for $7500 each. This money will be used to teach healthy and safe medication administration in child care by partnering with Child Care Health Consultants, Child Care Providers, and the Washington State Department of Early Learning. Over the next year, 4 train-the-trainer seminars will be developed and a Webinar produced. For more information about healthy and safe child care, go to
December 2009— Our resident, Dr. Aaron Grigg, has been awarded a CATCH grant. The grant is for research into attitudes of Hispanic/Latino families in the utilization of emergency services for their children. Dr. Grigg states: Overcrowding of emergency departments continues to worsen in many cities, pediatric hospitals included. Non-urgent visits create a backlog with detrimental effects on patients who require emergent treatment. An emergency visit is also a lost opportunity for building a relationship with the child's medical home. Our goal is to understand the reasons Hispanic/Latino parents bring their children to the emergency department for non-urgent medical conditions, and barriers that discourage families from seeking this care at primary care sites. This understanding will allow us to create a survey to identify the prevalence of these concerns in a representative sample of Spanish-speaking families. We plan to identify these reasons through a series of focus groups, led by a bilingual, bicultural facilitator. We will include Latino parents who have recently taken their child to the emergency department for care. The ultimate objective of this investigation is to inform the design of an effective intervention to promote appropriate use of health resources and improve access to a medical home for Latino children.
· August 30, 2009—Dr. Glassy talks with KING 5
· August 13, 2009—Dr. Glassy talks with KING 5
· March, 31, 2009—Dr. Quinn awarded the Richard A. Molteni 2009 award
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