The Houston Health Department (HHD) requests City Council approval of an ordinance authorizing a grant application to and acceptance of an award from the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the Houston Asthma Control through Evidence-Based Intervention Program (HACEIP). The total project period is from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2024, for a total amount of $2,625,000.00. The initial budget period is from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2020 for an amount of $525,000. The City is not required to provide a matching cash contribution.
HHD also requests City Council authorize the Mayor to execute all related contracts, agreements and documents with the approval of the City Attorney in connection with the grant application and to authorize the Director or his designee to act as the City’s representative with the authority to apply for, accept and expend the grant funds if awarded, and to accept and expend all subsequent supplemental awards, if any, and to extend the term and/or budget and project period not to exceed five years, if extended by CDC during the project period and does not require cash matching funds.
The purpose of the HACEIP is to decrease illnesses and deaths due to asthma and eliminate disparities among high burden populations including children and people with low socioeconomic status in the Houston region. The project will seek to strengthen Houston’s health care systems to optimize asthma services.
Using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, HHD will mobilize and lead a collaborative of partners to implement a data-driven strategic plan to expand the reach, quality and sustainability of local asthma control services. The collaborative will analyze data to monitor and evaluate the expansion and improvement of referral systems between health care agencies and social service providers.
With this grant, HHD will increase the number of people with asthma who receive asthma care, including medical assessments, medications and devices. HACEIP activities will decrease asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations and deaths and increase the number of people with well-controlled asthma.
Fiscal Note
No Fiscal Note is required on grant items.
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Stephen L. Williams, M.Ed., M.P.A.
Director - Houston Health Department