H97 - 2015 Appropriations Act, Sec.12E.3(d): Report on Community-Focused Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative (CFEHDI) (SL 2015-241)

Overview: Sec. 12E.3(d) of S.L. 2015-241 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit a report on the Community-Focused Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative (CFEHDI) to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division by October 1, 2017. The report must include specific activities undertaken by grantees to address large gaps in health status among North Carolinians who are African-American and other minority populations. The report must include the following:

• The entities that received CFEHDI grants-in-aid.
• The amount of funding awarded to each grantee.
• The minority populations served by each grantee.
• Which entities were involved in fulfilling the goals and activities of each grant-in-aid awarded and what activities were planned and implemented to fulfill the community focus of the CFEHDI program.
• How activities implemented by the grantee fulfilled the goal of reducing health disparities and the specific success in reducing particular incidences.

Infant mortality and low birth weight were added as chronic illnesses or conditions under the CFEHDI in Section 12F.3. Other illnesses and conditions under the CFEHDI are as follows: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, asthma, HIV/AIDS, and cancer.

This section became effective July 1, 2015.