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Professor Keefe Named Partner in SAMHSA’s New Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging
BU CADER Advocacy Helps Pass Increased State Funding
for Elder Mental Health Outreach
Bronwyn Keefe (PI) and the BU Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER) will partner with Rush University Medical Center in a 5-year, $3.5 million grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services organization (SAMHSA) to create a new research center called Engage, Educate, Empower for Equity: E4, The Rush Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging.
The E4 Center’s mission is to expand workforce capacity through innovative training of practitioners. Their focus is to ensure that community-based providers can implement evidence-based practices and programs (EBPs) in their work with vulnerable older adults who experience the greatest behavioral and physical health disparities.
Doctors in Chicago are making house calls to give vulnerable patients the Covid-19 vaccine
Hattie Blumenberg can’t easily get to a mass vaccination center. The 90-year-old woman has limited transportation, and leaving her Chicago home would require someone physically carrying her from the house to a vehicle.
But a new program at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center is helping protect Blumenberg and other people who live in neighborhoods with the highest Covid-19 death and positivity rates. Its doctors are distributing vaccines to Rush patients who are 65 and older and can’t get to a clinic.
Thanks to the program, Hattie and her daughter, Jackie Blumenberg, have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine in their home.
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