Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Total Spending

$546,106,254

Parent agency (Health and Human Services, Department of )

$134,466,583,769

StateFunding
Alabama $4,943,267
Arizona $2,131,928
California $67,619,273
Colorado $22,764,946
Connecticut $1,058,628
District of Columbia $49,725,951
Florida $6,353,889
Georgia $18,708,174
Hawaii $4,795,561
Illinois $12,750,724
Indiana $10,852,074
Iowa $3,239,272
Kansas $1,003,461
Louisiana $828,841
Maine $530,389
Maryland $51,300,527
Massachusetts $57,289,864
Michigan $9,520,872
Minnesota $13,557,274
Missouri $2,698,679
Nebraska $62,140
New Hampshire $987,675
New Jersey $7,482,720
New Mexico $2,365,296
New York $30,913,766
North Carolina $45,149,635
Ohio $11,224,348
Oklahoma $709,227
Oregon $22,689,480
Pennsylvania $26,192,526
Rhode Island $2,543,642
South Carolina $972,883
Tennessee $10,925,954
Texas $9,481,742
Utah $4,055,852
Vermont $583,719
Virginia $5,429,615
Washington $19,867,120
West Virginia $403,856
Wisconsin $2,372,818

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Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Type Federal Dept./Agency Date
OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE INC. $17,999,988 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/30/2010
: The purpose of this contract is to designate a national public relations firm to create a Publicity Center to enhance the ongoing AHRQ efforts to publicize and market comparative effectiveness research reports and associated materials to specific audience
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER $11,743,165 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: EHRs have the potential to anchor a learning healthcare system where each clinical encounter is an opportunity to learn and to improve clinical outcomes. We propose to link EHRs to disease-specific registries in a distributed network of pediatri... Show more
TOTAL THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT INC $11,680,060 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $10,832,974 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/16/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP) is a voluntary, clinical data-based surveillance, sharing and feedback platform aimed at improving quality and performing 'real world' studies of comparative effectiveness. Over the init... Show more
WESTAT, INC. $10,682,420 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 3/31/2010
: The purpose of the award is to support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, implement, maintain and evaluate performance of a collaborative Knowledge Sharing Network (KSN) for the Health information Techn
WESTAT, INC. $10,682,420 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 3/31/2010
: The purpose of the award is to support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, implement, maintain and evaluate performed of a collaborative Knowledge Sharing Network (KSN) for the Health Information Technol
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES $9,999,742 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/11/2010
: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a contract to American Institutes for Research. The contract is entitled Citizen's Forum. The contract was awarded in the amount of $9,999,742. The purpose of this contract is to establish
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES $9,999,742 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/11/2010
: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a contract to American Institutes for Research. The contract is entitled Community Forum. The contract was awarded in the amount of $9,999,742. The purpose of this contract is to establish
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $9,898,332 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The G?Variations in Care: Comparing Heart Failure Care Transition Intervention EffectsG? is a comparative effectiveness project that examines approaches to improve variation in resource use and mortality among the five University of California M... Show more
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $9,887,064 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Low back pain is one of the most important causes of functional limitation and disability, an Institute of Medicine priority condition, and it remains a particularly important problem for the elderly, an AHRQ priority population. While there are... Show more
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE $9,784,863 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Bipolar is a severe and lifelong illness affecting 4.5% of the population ? about 14 million people in the U.S. It is one of the top 10 most disabling medical conditions worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Traditionally, the mo... Show more
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY, THE $9,666,726 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) represents a potentially disruptive technology in terms of its impact on the clinical evaluation and management of coronary artery disease (CAD). This was highlighted by its inclusion in the Consensus Report on Ini... Show more
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) $9,645,674 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: 'In response to RFA-10-003: AHRQ Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness: the goal of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled multi-center clinical trial to determine whether using the Online Wound Electro... Show more
EMERGENCY CARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE $9,499,986 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/01/2010
: ARRA - HORIZON SCANNING SYSTEM - The purpose of this contract is to establish a system to conduct horizon scanning of healthcare technology in order to better inform comparative effectiveness research investments at the AHRQ through the Effective Healthca
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. $9,198,119 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 3/31/2010
: Booz Allen will support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and it Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the training of staff in Regional Exchange Centers (REC
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK $9,177,577 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/30/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: DiMango, Emily/Kattan, Meyer In this application, we propose a clinical research trial to compare non-pharmacologic therapy and standard pharmacologic therapy in asthma. The target population includes inner-city minority individuals living in Ma... Show more
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO $9,154,210 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The STONE study, a multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT), is a comparative effectiveness trial of three different imaging strategies in patients with suspected urolithiasis (kidney stones), seen in the Emergency Department. The study f... Show more
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $8,920,115 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: A network of 32 health services and intervention scientists affiliated with the HMO Research Network propose to build a national database for conducting comparative effectiveness research on treatment and on approaches to preventing diabetes mel... Show more
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK $8,855,607 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This grant is is to advance comparative effectiveness research designed to improve hypertension care delivery and population outcomes by building on an existing institution-focused data infrastructure to create a robust community-focused data in... Show more
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $8,696,942 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparative effectiveness research (CER) requires that clinical data be in standard forms allowing multiple, large databases to be efficiently combined, and requires that all of the data be coded so that automated summarization of the data is po... Show more
OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE INC. $8,613,876 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/30/2010
: The purpose of this contract is to designate an organization responsible to establish five (5)dissemination and partnership regional offices to be located in some of the same Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas as the HHS regional offices around th
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $8,453,702 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/30/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) develops in 50% of women with gestational diabetes (GDM) within 5 years after delivery. So far, no lifestyle interventions have been translated for women with GDM in the postpartum period. The main goal of this study is to... Show more
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY $8,422,410 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Indiana PROSPECT builds on the nation?s largest, most sophisticated health information exchange that already contains over 2.5 billion structured observations and 38 million text documents for over 10 million patients. This resource is alrea... Show more
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $8,309,936 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: For Stage I Part 1, we extracted limited access data sets from APPLES including 106 data terms for which a data dictionary could be provided. These data were then used to enable, evaluate, and refine tools previously developed during the NCRR-su... Show more
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $8,309,906 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: We will develop a distributed network infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research that provides flexibility to participant sites in the means for data sharing. This flexibility will be implemented by allowing codification of data sha... Show more
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE $8,309,543 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The overall goals of this project are to enhance the capacity and capability of a safety net focused distributed research network to conduct prospective comparative effectiveness research via a multi-setting, multi-state organization. The Scalab... Show more
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $8,272,272 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Scalable PArtnering Network for CER: Across Lifespan, Conditions, and Settings, or SPAN, will develop a distributed research network that is interoperable across a range of health care systems and sites, incorporating large and diverse patie... Show more
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $7,572,695 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/12/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor and the second leading cause of cancer death among American men. While surgery, radiation and observation have all been deemed appropriate for newly diagnosed men, tremendous uncertainty remains reg... Show more
HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. $7,177,459 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The purpose is to run a comparative effectiveness clinical trial on asthma in African-American adults to determine if specific genotypes determine the response to LABA/ICS medications versus a non-B-adrenergic bronchodilator/ICS combination
HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. $7,177,459 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Grant number 1RO1HS019408, issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is to support the BELT: Blacks & Exacerbations on LABA vs. Tiotropium project conducted by Harvard Clinical Research Institute in collaboration with Brig... Show more
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $6,466,949 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/31/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The primary goal of the PATIENT study (Promoting Adherence to Improve Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Disease Therapies) is to increase both initial use and ongoing adherence to three classes of medications used to treat diabetes or cardiovascul... Show more
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $6,000,000 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/24/2009
: The MN EPC is one of a core group of EPCs to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CERs) and evidence syntheses including defining the topic, conducting the systematic review and identifying and characterizing limitations
TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER, INC. $6,000,000 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
: The work under this Task Order augmented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will support the work of the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program which began in 2005 in conjunction with Section 1013 of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), in
DUKE UNIVERSITY $6,000,000 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
: This proposal to AHRQ from the Duke Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) is in response to the ''ARRA 2009 - Comprehensive EPC Comparative Effectiveness Reviews for Effective Health Care' request for task order. Awarding of this Task Order would allow the
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE $6,000,000 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/23/2009
: The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center (RTI-UNC EPC) conducts four major types of comparative effectiveness activities for AHRQ, with a special focus on mental health. Area 1 includes the developme
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $5,998,777 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
: The purpose of this contract is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The three main work areas are: develop and refine of to
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION $5,996,188 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/24/2009
: This Task Order formalizes a commitment to an expanded scope of work with three major work components: 1. Develop and refine topics for CERs that are informative to stakeholder decisional needs. 2. Conduct CERs with systematic and transparent methods.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE $5,984,293 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 3/31/2010
: RTI will provide support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, coordinate, and facilitate meetings at the national and regional levels for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) in it
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $5,970,037 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
: The purpose of this Task Order is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The CER process can be outlined as having three step
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $5,280,448 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/27/2009
: The goal of this funding initiative on ?Comprehensive Comparative Effectiveness Reviews for Effective Health Care? is to improve understanding of the comparative effectiveness and safety of medications, procedures, tests, and management strategies for pat
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $5,000,000 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/24/2009
: Purpose: Translating scientific evidence into products for patients, clinicians and policymakers. Abstract: The gap between research findings and actual medical practice remains a concern for all citizens: -Patients, searching for information on safe
OUTCOME SCIENCES, INC. $4,997,998 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/30/2010
: The 'Registry of Patient Registries' task order includes five tasks: 1) Develop the registry of patient registries (RoPR) system, 2) Develop an outcome measures framework, 3) Research and write a white paper on creating an archive of expired patient regis
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $4,927,837 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: State Medicaid programs play a central role in the provision of mental health services in the U.S., particularly for lower-income youth and adults with severe mental illness, whose mental health treatment is often without apparent clinical ratio... Show more
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $4,556,778 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7/14/2010
: End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is a growing public health burden. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major source of morbidity and mortality in patients with ESRD, but optimal strategies for reducing CVD related morbidity and mortality are not fully explor
HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC $4,461,234 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/29/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This project, the Population-Based Effectiveness in Asthma and Lung Diseases (PEAL) Network, will create a new infrastructure to accelerate comparative effectiveness research in asthma and other lung diseases in diverse populations. The network... Show more
PRIME EDUCATION INC. $3,981,168 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/30/2010
: Creation of accredited medical education online courses.
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE $3,934,148 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7/13/2010
: The proposed BWH DEciDE Methods Center & Network will complement and support new research and evidence development activities that will be conducted under DEciDE and other funding mechanisms involving ARRA funds. In collaboration with AHRQ we will propose
ACADEMYHEALTH $3,856,340 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/31/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The EDM Forum is a 3-year award designed to advance Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), also referred to as Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), by developing the infrastructure and methods for collecting and analyzing prospective da... Show more
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE $3,606,822 Contract Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 3/31/2010
: The purpose of this project is to assist the Office of the National Coordinatorfor Health IT (ONC), the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC), and the current 60 Regional Exchange Centers (RECs) with identifying and developing 'best practi
PITTSBURGH REGIONAL HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE $3,421,521 Grant Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Title: Implementing Behavioral Health in Primary Care by Leveraging AHRQ Networks Behavioral health problems are among the most prevalent of health problems in the United States and are directly related to poor healthcare quality and higher uti... Show more

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