Past Funded Projects

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine OUWB will collaborate with the HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center in Pontiac, Michigan to empower discharged homeless patients in its Recuperative Care Center with better health information seeking and literacy skills.

This project will increase access to health information by improving the health literacy attributes of The University of Tennessee Medical Center UTMC. Library faculty will lead an assessment of health literacy sensitive characteristics of the UTMC and will provide a basis for promoting changes in our healthcare system based on evidence. Librarians will partner with UTMC stakeholders and University of Tennessee graduate students to implement assessment tools called the Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers HLEHH.

The CMSRU Library supports the medical education needs of a new and growing medical school, the high-level clinical needs of our associated academic medical center, Cooper University Hospital, and the needs of the fifteen graduate medical education programs offered at Cooper. The library presently uses traditional technologies, such as email and website/Blackboard announcements to support the curriculum and provide outreach services.

The mission of Blessing Health Professions Library is to enhance learning, research, and patient care by effectively managing knowledge-based resources for the 21st century. This mission is accomplished with respect for our patrons through dedication to excellence, creative service approaches, and by providing a doorway to information access through new technology initiatives. This application encompasses two areas of our mission: creative service approaches and information access through technology initiatives.

Through interactive training workshops, we will assist a diverse group of community members in learning about their health conditions, understanding how to research health information using NLM and other internet resources, and learning how to prepare for a medical appointment including compiling a list of questions for their 126.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to print hard copy resource guides and develop a mobile app that provide information about local and online mental health and addiction resources. The goal is to provide easy access to this information. The end user target population consists of individuals seeking and utilizing services as well as their family members. In addition, library staff and human services professionals in our region will be trained on the resources so that they can assist in disseminating the information.

This project will support professional development in the area of data management through attendance at the 2017 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit RDAP.

The One Button Studio OBS is a simple video recording studio can be easily used by a novice to create polished video content such as oral histories, interviews, presentations, and instructional videos. The OBS is in itself a learning experience, and an opportunity for sharing and creating information and knowledge. The MMC Library seeks to establish an OBS in one of our library meeting rooms.

Wayne Memorial Hospital's technology grant request goal is to expand current computer access in the library. This expansion will improve access to electronic health information, improve library services, and promote health literacy to 126s, clinical students, and the low-income community of Wayne County, NC.

Provision of accurate online resources is a valuable tool in designing programs aimed at assisting 95 consumers in making informed decisions about their health and to communicate effectively with health professionals. Through Project Connections, consumers will receive instant access to online health information and resources from the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, including medical journals,clinical guidelines, and databases encompassing the world's knowledge about conditions and diseases, as well as patient-oriented materials and online interactive communities.

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital WBGH is located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which has consistently ranked poorly in national health statistics. The county is higher than average in the age of the population, unemployment, poverty, and other indicators of a population at risk. WBGH is the largest hospital in the area and has a huge impact on the health of the community, especially on the population living in the inner city area where literacy rates are the lowest and poverty is the highest.

Pettaway Pursuit Foundations goal is to empower new mothers with education and support throughout the prenatal and postpartum period, to achieve healthy newborn outcomes through healthier and prolonged pregnancies. Our Doulas, otherwise known as 92 caregivers provide non-medical assistance before, during, and after child birth. A Doula also provides assistance to the expectant mother's partner and family.

PIA will provide hands on PowerPoint computer training workshops designed to improve the accessibility to web based health information and health resources using medlineplus.gov. Our workshops will increase attendees' skills in using computers to navigate many National Library of Medicine electronic medical libraries. We will teach all participants find and understand health topics and many other health resources to include the meaning and importance of health literacy. The PIA training will target the public with a focus on African Americans and other underserved populations.

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso Libraries will bring 3D printing and knowledge of how to use the NIH 3D Print Exchange to the health workers, medical students, Hispanics, and doctors in Western Texas.