ADMINISTRATIVE CORE

在哈莱姆实现和维持改善健康中心将在行政上设立

The Center for Achieving and Sustaining Improved Health in Harlem will be located administratively within the Department of Health Policy of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It will be well-positioned there to achieve its objectives. The Center Director, Dr. Mark Chassin, is Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Executive Vice President (EVP) for Excellence in Patient Care for the Mount Sinai Medical Center. These roles put him in an ideal position to communicate the goals, objectives, and activities of the Center 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 Mount Sinai EXPORT Center. In his EVP role, Chassin also oversees the Alliance for Health Improvement, a new organization whose mission is to improve health in Harlem. Working with Health Policy research faculty and staff over the past two years, the Alliance has translated two research-proven health interventions into operating health programs: a nurse management program to enhance self-management skills in patients with heart failure and a community-based, peer-led chronic disease self-management program. The Center will thus be able to 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 fiscal management support to all Center activities. We will also create a shared data management resource in the Administrative Core to provide computer networking, database creation, and web-based programming services for all Center functions. An Executive Committee chaired by the Center Co-Director and comprised of all Core Directors and Co-Directors and Shared Resource Directors will oversee and advise the Center Director on Center operations. The Center will occupy space in the Department of Health Policy and take advantage of its administrative and office management systems to conduct its operations. The Administrative Core's Co-Director will be Anne Marie Benedicto, the Administrative Director of the Department of Health Policy, assuring a smooth operating relationship for the Center within the Department.