Drinking Water: Keeping drinking water clean and safe

Drinking water infrastructure projects
Grant funds are being used throughout Washington for construction projects that improve drinking water in local communities. The projects range from new construction to renovation and repair of existing facilities. Complete details about the economic recovery funds for water systems.
Location: Communities in 21 Washington counties.

Grant Amount: $41,806,000
Expenditures to date: $38,224,551
Jobs supported in last quarter: 3.7
Status: More than 50% complete

Vaccines: Improving immunization rates & preventing disease

Immunizations: Reaching more children and adults
This project uses funds to provide children with vaccine and support activities in local communities that help improve Washington’s childhood immunization rates and protect the public from vaccine preventable diseases. Allocation breakdown: $2,916,585 for vaccines; $1,998,362 for ARRA supported activities.
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $1,854,362
Expenditures to date: $1,998,362
Jobs supported in last quarter: 4.0
Status: More than 50% complete

Public health clinic reimbursement
This grant is going to local health jurisdictions for planning and development. The project helps local health department clinics improve their ability to bill health insurance plans for immunization services for those who are privately insured.
Location: Select pilot counties will be chosen in early 2010.

Grant Amount: $356,768
Expenditures to date: $356,768
Jobs supported in last quarter: 3.0
Status: More than 50% complete

Develop "best practices" for school vaccination coverage and exemption rates
This grant is being used to improve the way vaccination coverage is monitored in Washington schools and to simplify immunization reporting requirements for schools. This improves the efficiency, accuracy and availability of school immunization data.
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $300,000
Expenditures to date: $295,810
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.3
Status: More than 50% complete

Provide Support to "best practices" for school vaccination coverage and exemption rates
This grant provides funding for the Department of Health to hire a staff person in support of the work plan activities of the best practices project described above.
Location: Department of Health

Grant Amount: $50,000
Expenditures to date: $43,869
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.3
Status: More than 50% complete

CHILD Profile Immunization Information System Improvements
CHILD Profile is a health promotion and immunization information system designed to help assure children in Washington state get needed preventive health services. This grant provides funding to make improvements in the system. Improvements include reducing or eliminating duplicate data entry by health care providers; more complete immunization histories; better timeliness of data submissions, improved quality of immunization coverage assessments, as well as providing increased availability of data to other public health systems.
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $1,187,195
Expenditures to date: $444,927
Jobs supported in last quarter: 2.1
Status: Less than 50% complete

Rotavirus Vaccine Evaluation
Rotavirus infection sickens 5 to 8 million people around the world each year and is fatal to more than 500,000 children under the age of five. Grant funds are being used to study the effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine as well as the severity and distribution of the disease. The Department of Health is partnering with Seattle Children's Hospital in this study
Location: Washington State Public Health Laboratories and Seattle Children's Hospital

Grant Amount: $600,361
Expenditures to date: $505,879
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.9
Status: More than 50% complete

Meningococcal Vaccine Evaluation
Grant funds are being used to study the meningococcal vaccine and how well the vaccine is performing since its introduction in 2005. The grant is also supporting additional surveillance of other diseases that can be prevented by vaccines and how current vaccine rates have affected recent outbreaks of these diseases.
Location: Washington State Public Health Laboratories

Grant Amount: $330,006
Expenditures to date: $287,131
Jobs supported in last quarter: 1.6
Status: More than 50% complete

Communities putting prevention to work to stay healthy

Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Grant dollars are being used to encourage Washingtonians to pursue healthy behaviors. Efforts include encouraging physical activity; improving nutrition in low-income neighborhood, offering tobacco cessation assistance to external organizations and working with public health, health care, business and government to prevent the risks of chronic disease.
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $954,922
Expenditures to date: $762,608
Jobs supported in last quarter: 4.8
Status: More than 50% complete

Tobacco Cessation Efforts
These funds are being used to continue the agency's tobacco cessation activities specifically targeting low-income and less educated adults through the media and quit lines
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $830,873
Expenditures to date: $816,756
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.7
Status: More than 50% complete

Behavioral Risk Factors
The Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) project aims to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, reduce obesity and decrease tobacco use in Washington communities. This grant provides funds for data collection for the CPPW project in King County. King County is administering a questionnaire to 1,500 residents and compiling the results to create a baseline for the project. After the project is completed, a second survey of 1,500 residents will measure the success of the CPPW project.
Location: King County

Grant Amount: $423,678
Expenditures to date: $116,982
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.3
Status: Less than 50% complete

Health Care Associated Infections

Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals
Health Care Associated Infections are infections that patients get during their stay in a hospital or surgery center. This grant is being used by the Department of Health and in 43 hospitals throughout the state to help improve the way that hospitals collect information about these infections.
Location: In 43 hospitals throughout the state.

Grant Amount: $873,266
Expenditures to date: $759,651
Jobs supported in last quarter: 4.4
Status: More than 50% complete

Health Care Associated Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Health Care Associated Infections are infections that patients can get during their stay in a hospital or ambulatory (day) surgery center. This grant is being used by the Department of Health to help prevent infections in surgery centers by expanding the awareness of proper infection controls and improving inspection capacity and frequency.
Location: Department of Health

Grant Amount: $711,080
Expenditures to date: $574,007
Jobs supported in last quarter: 1.6
Status: More than 50% complete

Access to Health care for Underserved Populations

Oral Health Workforce Training ~ Teledentistry
This grant is being used to train dental professionals willing to work in underserved communities. The University of Washington School of Dentistry, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, and Eastern Washington University will use these funds to purchase video conferencing equipment and patient simulators. The equipment will be placed in clinic and class room settings at remote sites.
Locations: Remote sites include Okanogan, Colville, Lake Spokane, Moses Lake, Pasco/Tri-Cities, Yakima and Ellensburg.

Grant Amount: $293,430
Expenditures to date: $292,703
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.0
Status: Fully completed

National Health Service Corps Strengthening Projects to enhance primary care
This grant is helping support the recruitment and retention for health care providers for underserved populations
Location: Statewide

Grant Amount: $438,340
Expenditures to date: $107,461
Jobs supported in last quarter: 0.5
Status: Less than 50% complete

Nutrition

Women, Infants and Children Program
The Woman, Infants and Children Program (WIC) provides mothers and children with vouchers to buy healthy food in grocery stores in local communities all over Washington. The grant allowed more people to participate in the program throughout the state. Washington is the only western state to receive this funding, based on our steep increase in WIC participation. All funds have been expended.

Grant Amount: $837,945
Expenditures to date: $837,945
Jobs supported in last quarter: n/a
Status: Fully completed