Comagine Health

Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Program Grantee

Prevention and Public Health Fund 2022, effective May 1, 2022

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Goals 

The overall purposes of this 3-year grant are to:

• Goal 1: Develop or expand capacity to 

significantly increase the number of 

older adults and adults with disabilities, 

particularly those in underserved 

areas/populations, who participate in 

evidence-based chronic disease selfmanagement education and selfmanagement support programs to 

empower them to better manage their 

chronic conditions.

• Goal 2: Enhance the sustainability of 

evidence-based chronic disease selfmanagement education and selfmanagement support programs 

through the implementation of robust 

sustainability strategies.

Strategies and Activities

Comagine Health and its partners will: 

• Collaborate with Quality and Technical 

Assistance Center (QTAC) and Access to 

Healthcare (AHC) to assess 

infrastructure gaps, convene partners, 

develop partnership agreements, and 

implement a business plan.

• Establish and test a technology plan to 

support backbone needs of CDSME 

delivery partners.

• Increase access to English, Spanish, and 

virtual programs for older adults with 

chronic conditions.

• Build health plan buy-in to invest in 

CDSME programs and secure financially 

advantageous cross-sector partnerships 

• Build health plan buy-in to invest in 

CDSME programs and secure financially 

advantageous cross-sector partnerships 

and agreements with health plans and 

other backbone funders to increase 

sustainability.

Proposed Interventions

• Chronic Disease Self-Management 

Program (CDSMP)

• Chronic Pain Self-Management Program 

(CPSMP)

• Diabetes Self-Management Program 

(DSMP)
Prevention and Public Health Fund 2022, effective May 1, 2022

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• Enhanced Fitness

• Programa de Manejo Personal de la 

Diabetes

• Tomando Control de su Salud

• Walk With Ease Self-Directed (WWE)

Partnerships

To achieve the goals of the grant, Comagine 

Health will collaborate with the following key 

partners:

• Access to Healthcare

• Aging and Disability Services

• Nevada Division of Public and 

Behavioral Health

• Healthy Nevada Quality Technical 

Assistance Center (QTAC), Dignity 

Health

• Southern Nevada Health District

• Unite Nevada

• YMCA

Anticipated Results 

The Comagine Health and its partners propose 

to achieve the following results: 

• Provide in person and virtual programs 

that are accessible to 87% of older 

adults in Nevada, reaching those most 

in need with the system ready to scale 

to the rest of the state. 

• An integrated data management system 

in place by 2024 that increases partner 

capacity to receive and triage referrals 

and manage program data.

• Enroll 700 adults in Self-Management 

Resource Center Programs by 2025.

• Use data to build the value proposition 

and develop business case for health 

plans and other backbone funders. 

Contact:

Brian Parrish, MPH

Senior Improvement Advisor

Comagine Health

bparrish@comagine.org

For more information: 

Administration for Community Living 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Washington, DC 20201

http://www.acl.gov