The Center for Achieving and Sustaining Improved Health in Harlem will be located administrativelywithin the Department of Health Policy of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It will be well-positionedthere to achieve its objectives. The Center Director, Dr. Mark Chassin, is Chairman of the Department ofHealth Policy and Executive Vice President (EVP) for Excellence in Patient Care for the Mount Sinai MedicalCenter. These roles put him in an ideal position to communicate the goals, objectives, and activities of theCenter to the academic, clinical, and administrative leadership of Mount Sinai. The Center Co-Director, Dr.Nina Bickell, an accomplished health services researcher, is Director of the Research Core for the MountSinai EXPORT Center.In his EVP role, Chassin also oversees the Alliance for Health Improvement, a new organization whosemission is to improve health in Harlem. Working with Health Policy research faculty and staff over the pasttwo years, the Alliance has translated two research-proven health interventions into operating healthprograms: a nurse management program to enhance self-management skills in patients with heart failureand a community-based, peer-led chronic disease self-management program. The Center will thus be ableto have a close relationship with a key organization that will help accomplish a key Center objective:sustaining interventions proved effective in research studies after research funding ends.The Center's Administrative Core will provide project management, administrative, budgeting, and fiscalmanagement support to all Center activities. We will also create a shared data management resource in theAdministrative Core to provide computer networking, database creation, and web-based programmingservices for all Center functions. An Executive Committee chaired by the Center Co-Director and comprisedof all Core Directors and Co-Directors and Shared Resource Directors will oversee and advise the CenterDirector on Center operations. The Center will occupy space in the Department of Health Policy and takeadvantage of its administrative and office management systems to conduct its operations. The AdministrativeCore's Co-Director will be Anne Marie Benedicto, the Administrative Director of the Department of HealthPolicy, assuring a smooth operating relationship for the Center within the Department.
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