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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 23, 2003 FBO #0601
SOLICITATION NOTICE

U -- HISPANIC DATA USERS WORKSHOP

Notice Date

7/21/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Acquisition and Grants Group, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Central Building, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
 

ZIP Code

21244-1850
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-771-3-923518
 

Response Due

8/4/2003
 

Archive Date

8/19/2003
 

Point of Contact

Lucille Lee, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-5447, Fax 410-786-9643,
 

E-Mail Address

LLee4@cms.hhs.gov
 

Description

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to award on a sole source basis, under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, a firm fixed price award to Howard University, School of Social Work and the Hispanic Multicultural Affairs Program, 601 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC. This workshop is a partnership between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Howard University School of Social Work and the Hispanic Multicultural Affairs Program. CMS is partnering with this university to: 1) increase the number of under-represented Hispanic American investigators with the basic skills needed to begin collaborating in or conducting minority research that uses CMS data sets; 2) orient Hispanic American researchers in understanding CMS?s Medicare and Medicaid data sets; 3) provide for the education of Hispanic researchers in the proper acquisition and use of CMS files in data content including file layouts and data field definitions, and in manipulation and use of CMS data for research purposes; 4) provide hands on experience with using CMS data sets to answer research questions; 5)increase Hispanic researchers technical skills and ability to conduct minority health services research; and 6) encourage cross-institutional collaboration focusing on using CMS data. This workshop will be targeted specifically to the needs of Hispanic American investigators to increase their technical skills and ability to conduct minority health services research, and to encourage cross-institutional collaboration focusing on using CMS data. Howard University School of Social Work and the Hispanic Multicultural Affairs Program will host the workshop in collaboration with the Research Data Assistance Center. The Howard University Hospital is directly linked to the Hispanic community, through its Office of Hispanic and Multicultural Affairs program. The Howard University Office of the Medical Director is the sponsor of the Hispanic and Multicultural Affairs program. It was created in 1994 with the purpose to promote education, prevention, and health services as well as to facilitate the access to the health care system for the Hispanic and non-English speaking population in the greater Washington area. The mission is to provide the highest quality of standard of excellence in health care delivery to non-English speaking people in a friendly and personal manner to cultural and linguistically diverse communities. The mission also includes helping to prepare Howard University Hospital employees to provide the highest quality of health services and maximum patient satisfaction for multicultural and multiracial groups. This Office offers a variety of services in response to health needs of non-English speaking populations. These services include general information regarding the services that the Hospital provides, education in preventive medicine, assistance in clinical appointments for patients, assistance in referring patients to hospital services and community clinics according to the patients needs, counseling and translation services in Spanish. The Hispanic and Multicultural Office also offer an outreach program for the Hispanic community in promoting preventive health services. The Office therefore provides an important link to the Hispanic community. This exemplifies Howard University commitment to the health education and pursuance of healthy people year 2005 objectives. A major factor for the sole source justification is that this institution is addressing a health area that CMS is concern about. For example, Howard University focused its attention to African American and Hispanic health issues, i.e., understanding health disparities, health status, health outcomes, barriers to care, and access to care. Howard University is uniquely placed to improve the health status of African American and Hispanic American communities because of the respect and trust accorded to it by the community. Its research and training programs involve significant number of Blacks and Hispanics. The University infrastructure and resources puts it in a unique position to nurture the growth of young minority scientists and collaborate with larger institutions, small Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and form partnerships with the community. Howard University has the expertise in planning, designing, development, and implementation of programs focusing on assessing barriers to care and differences in health status of minority populations, and improving health outcomes for minority populations. This institution has the necessary experience and unique capability to put on this type of workshop. All responsible sources may submit capability statements in consideration to the Agency at the above address.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 7500 Security Blvd., Baltimore, Md

Zip Code: 21244

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00376269-W 20030723/030721213339 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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