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Texas Health & Human Services Commission Austin, TX 78751
Project: Texas State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health Initiative Amount: $149,343
The Office for the Elimination of Health Disparities was created in 2003 by the Texas state legislature and is currently housed within the Health and Human Services Commission. The office’s primary focus is to optimize the health and wellness of Texans by developing and strengthening systems and services to monitor and assess the health needs of the state’s underserved populations.
Project Abstract
The Texas State Partnership Grant will be used to improve culturally competent care in Medicaid service areas with known health disparities. The main purpose of the project is twofold: 1) to promote the voluntary adoption and implementation of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards) by providers in targeted managed care organizations in the Hidalgo STAR+PLUS Medicaid service area (including HealthSpring, Molina and Superior) and in the Dallas STAR Medicaid service area (Amerigroup, Molina and Parkland); and 2) to support the development of a state-level online certification program requiring completion of cultural competence training and adoption and implementation of the National CLAS Standards. This project will:
The two main outcomes from this project will be the results of a community stakeholder survey from 100 community members and a survey of providers participating in the National CLAS Standards adoption and online training program as well as those who did not participate. The success of the project will be measured through the number of:
A post-test-only design will be used to assess community survey responses, agreements to participate and certifications, while a quasi-experimental approach using a pre-/post- test of participating and non-participating providers for each target market will assess improved cultural competence.
Objectives