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 | San Francisco State University, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Advancing the Practice of Nursing: On-site Master’s in Nursing Cohort Program | $450,486 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 34 mo. | $450,486 | Oct. 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to San Francisco State University ("SFSU") is to expand the SFSU On-site Masters in Nursing Cohort Program at Stanford Hospitals & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ("Stanford/Packard"). At the end of the grant, SFSU will have graduated an additional eighteen MSN students employed at Stanford/Packard and other San Francisco Bay Area hospitals. This grant will also support an evaluation of the current program and a study to assess the feasibility and opportunity for additional on-site Master’s in Nursing programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
Defining the Link Between High Patient Volume and Patient Safety | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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This grant supports research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | | Chabot Space & Science Center
Girls Go Techbridge | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 |
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Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center supports the Techbridge program partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northern California to develop, implement and scale up a two-year, out-of-school curriculum delivery pilot program ("Girls Go Techbridge") in the 10-county Bay Area region, resulting in 1) increased confidence, skills, and interest in science in 2,000-2,500 Bay Area middle school girls; and 2) an expansion of the pilot program to 3 additional Girl Scouts regional councils by the conclusion of this grant period. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,090,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Chabot Space and Science Center supports its Techbridge program. Outcomes include increased participation from girls in science, technology, and engineering. | | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
San Francisco Bay Area Patient Flow Seminar | $321,250 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $321,250 | Oct. 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is to hold an IHI seminar entitled "Cracking the Code to Hospital-Wide Patient Flow" in the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA). The seminar, which will be attended by staff of SFBA and/or Greater Sacramento hospitals, will educate the participants in the principles and best practices to improve patient flow. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $325,000 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will fund the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to assist up to four Bay Area adult acute care hospitals to optimize their discharge planning processes for elderly Heart Failure patients in the "Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program." By assisting participating hospitals in providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during hospitalization and at discharge, IHI and the hospitals participating in the project will improve patient outcomes as measured by lower rates of hospital readmission for elderly Heart Failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $150,000 | Oct. 2005 |
Purpose
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement used this grant to provide Breakthrough Series College training to Bay Area hospitals. Approximately 25 participants from the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative and the UCSF Culture Collaborative attended the three-day session. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $400,000 | May 2005 |
Purpose
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is using this grant to implement its 100K Lives Campaign, which is aimed at saving 100,000 lives nationally. Through the Campaign, IHI is motivating and supporting hospitals in implementing six proven clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within acute care hospitals. Outcomes include delivery of Campaign services to, and the report of mortality data for, 15 to 20 participating Bay Area hospitals. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Destination Great: San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento Hospital Pilots | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals is to identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
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Natural Capital Project | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 |
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Purpose
This grant to Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment grant will support the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management (ABM) decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies. | | California Institute of Technology
Tectonics Observatory | $13,000,000 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $13,000,000 | Sep. 2008 |
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Purpose
This grant to the California Institute of Technology Tectonics Observatory will support the second phase of the development of a multidisciplinary facility that combines state-of-the-art monitoring networks and innovative observations at key tectonics boundaries with modeling of tectonic forces over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The goal of understanding and, later, predicting the earth’s behavior near the intersection of key tectonic plates will provide strategic insights into a variety of destructive phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, and other geochemical and geophysical processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $7,500,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the California Institute of Technology provides $7.5 million of additional funds to complete the Design Development Phase (DDP) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) by March 2009. The TMT goal is to construct the first of the next-generation giant optical/infrared ground-based telescopes. This grant is paired with an identical award to the University of California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $11,260,000 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
To establish the Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis to accelerate the discovery of powerful new catalytic chemical reactions and novel chemical architectures. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $6,000,000 | Oct. 2006 |
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To develop the molecular basis for driving the photo-oxidation of water to enable fuel production directly from sunlight. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $6,500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
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In support of research in reliable generation, storage, and use of renewable energy with the establishment of the Center for Sustainable Energy Research (CSER). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,943,114 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of experimentation with large, diverse, and interconnected socio-economic systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 72 mo. | $12,020,300 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of Revolutionizing Detectors for Cosmology. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,998,512 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Much of human behavior, like those of other animals, is directed toward the ultimate goal of obtaining rewards, such as money or food, and avoiding punishment. This proposed research will lead to an understanding of the effects of reward at numerous levels of brain organization. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,611,266 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. Outcomes for this grant include creation of the Center and postdoctoral fellowships. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $5,631,000 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant allows Caltech to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. The Center will sustain a program of theoretical research aimed at attacking the problems posed by dark matter, dark energy, and the early universe. Outcomes for this grant include the addition of two senior scientists (cosmology theorists), establishment of a distinguished visiting scholars program and postdoctoral fellowships, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $7,979,578 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
With this grant, Caltech will create the Proteome Exploration Laboratory (CaPel). Research at CaPel is expected to generate new knowledge of how the proteins specified by a genome give rise to an organism. Outcomes for this grant include installation of equipment and maintenance of the Proteome Exploration Laboratory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $8,799,000 | Sep. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. Outcomes for this grant include installation of two ion microprobes, development of novel geochemical instrumentation, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $17,537,100 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant establishes Caltech's center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, focusing on fundamental studies of molecular complexity, the development of the technology of ultrafast imaging, and its applications to real systems of physical, chemical, and biological function. Outcomes for this grant include creation and maintenance of the ultrafast imaging facility. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,000,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to support and expand its diversity programs. Outcomes for this grant include increased participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, recruitment of non-Caltech and Caltech undergraduate and graduate students every year, support for postdoctoral students and assessment of the diversity recruitment program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,510,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to Caltech partially funds construction costs for the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). Caltech, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign, and University of Maryland are collaborating to build CARMA, which merges six 10-meter telescopes from Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory array with nine six-meter telescopes from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array on one site at Cedar Flat near Bishop, California. The CARMA Association (made up of the four partner universities) will operate the new array. Outcomes for this grant include relocation of six ten-meter telescopes, completion of the observatory, upgraded telescope electronics, development and deployment of an array computing system, and establishment of the array infrastructure. | |