Past Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| EOA 2017-18: Leveraging Health Literacy and Community Health Resources to Improve Senior Care |
The overall goal of the proposed project is to strengthen and enhance access to local and national health information resources for the Washoe County, NV, community of seniors and senior caregivers |
$8,950 |
| Mount Saint Mary's University "Mount Wellness" Training Project |
Mount Saint Mary's University (MSMU) launched a comprehensive wellness movement, ?Mount Wellness,? in 2017 to help its community become, and remain, healthier. |
$2,000 |
| Promoting ZSFG Library to Underserved Patients and Hospital Staff (2017) |
The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and Trauma Center Library, a health sciences library affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco, will promote health informat |
$900 |
| Subaward 2017-2018: Resources and Services for Native Peoples in Northwestern Nevada |
Support Native peoples in northwestern Nevada (greater Reno–Sparks area) by providing instruction and promoting freely available health information resources, with a focus on National Library of Me |
$20,000 |
| Targeted Dissemination of NEC-Zero Resources to Reach Underserved Caregivers of Premature Infants at Risk for Necrotizing Enterocolitis (December 2017?April 2018) |
The goal of NEC-Zero is to eliminate necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) to ?zero cases' by increasing access to evidence-based information to promote risk awareness and prevention. |
$9,000 |
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| EOA 2016-17: Community Access to Health Information Training in San Diego |
The Pacific College of Oriental College (PCOM) proposes a collaborative health information outreach project to increase awareness and access of NLM/NIH online resources by providing training worksh |
$14,000 |
| EOA 2016-17: Community Health Information Resource for Seniors (CHIRS) |
The overall purpose of the Community Health Information Resource for Seniors (CHIRS) is to strengthen and enhance Washoe County's provision of resources to its community by building a comprehe |
$13,999 |
| Marshall Community Health Library Outreach Project (July–August 2017) |
The Marshall Community Health Library, a consumer health library that serves the public and the local healthcare community, will be hosting a National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibition |
$2,000 |
| Subaward 2016-2017: Resources and Learning Opportunities for Patients and their Families |
The purpose of this project is to increase access, knowledge, skills, and use of library resources that can help support the health of immigrant Micronesian families. |
$32,237 |
| Subaward 2016-2017: Resources and Services for Community Health Nursing Clinics Across the State of Nevada |
To support community health nurses across the State of Nevada by providing instruction and promotion of freely available health information with a focus on National Library of Medicine (NLM) resour |
$40,000 |
| Subaward 2016–2018: Arizona Outreach |
Through the Arizona Outreach Subaward, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library (UAHSL) will execute a variety of activities designed to reach out to various communities in our largely rur |
$55,000 |
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| EOA 2015-2016: Building an Environmental Health Information Program: Charles R. Drew University (CDU) Pipeline and the CDU Health Sciences Library |
The primary goal of the project is to introduce high school students and their teachers to the National Library of Medicine Environmental Health information resources. |
$9,000 |
| EOA 2015-2016: EnviRN ? Evidence: Enhancing nurses? capacity to search for environmental health evidence |
The Institute of Medicine notes that all nurses should integrate environmental health into their education, practice, research, & policy efforts, yet environmental health is poorly incorporated |
$9,000 |
| EOA 2015-2016: Finding Reliable Health Information Online: Trusted Sources & MedlinePlus |
Finding Reliable Health Information Online will provide education about the importance of using trustworthy sources of medical information, and offer guidance on how to determine which sources are |
$9,000 |
| EOA 2015-2016: Improving Response Capabilities of Northern Nevada Emergency Management Specialists through Critical Information Access |
This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and the Washoe County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. |
$9,000 |
| National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region 2016-2021 |
The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by 1) providing all U.S. |
$1,256,476 |
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| COA 2011-2016: Arizona Outreach |
The Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), at the University of Arizona has been involved in outreach to the State of Arizona since its inception in 1967. |
$40,000 |
| Pacific Southwest Region 2011-2016 |
The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) is to advance the progress of medicine & improve the public health by 1) providing all U.S. |
$1,071,346 |
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| COA 2011-2016: Arizona Outreach |
The Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), at the University of Arizona has been involved in outreach to the State of Arizona since its inception in 1967. |
$34,583 |
| EOA 2014-2015: Patient Engagement with MYSFHealth, San Francisco?s Patient Portal |
Patients will access their health information through MYSFHealth, SFHN?s online patient portal. We estimate that well over 100,000 patients receive care from SFHN providers. |
$9,000 |