Notice of Grant Award to Waimanalo Health Center for a Project Entitled, “The Hauula Community Diabetes Screening Program”

Résumé

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a grant entitled "The Hauula Community Diabetes Screening Program" to the Waimanalo Health Center, 41-1347 Kalanianaole Highway, Waimanalo, Hawaii 96795, in response to an unsolicited application. Purpose: The Waimanalo Health Center proposes to provide diabetes and related risk factor health screening as well as relevant health educational and behavioral intervention services to the geographically isolated, mostly-Samoan community of Hauula (pop. 3,651) on Oahu. Services will be targeted to its Samoan citizens but open to all residents of Hauula regardless of their ethnicity. Total Amount of Award: $987,317. Project Period: September 30, 2004, through March 30, 2006. Sole Source Justification: This unsolicited proposal is responsive to the Senate Appropriations Committee's commitment to the concept of a demonstration project for American Samoans in Hawaii that will integrate social services, to include traditional health, preventive health, prevention and disease management, and address the health disparities among Native Hawaiians and other minority populations by utilizing the expertise of the Waimanalo Health Center. The