
The mission of Project ECHO™ (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is to develop the capacity to safely and effectively treat chronic, common, and complex diseases in rural and underserved areas, and to monitor outcomes of this treatment.
Project ECHO™ is funded in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has received support from the New Mexico Legislature, the University of New Mexico, and the New Mexico Department of Public Health.
University of New Mexico
School of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC07 4245
1001 Medical Arts Ave. NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 Phone: (505) 750-3246 (ECHO)
Sanjeev Arora,
MD, Director
IT: (505) 750-4897
Fax: (505) 272-6906
echo@salud.unm.edu
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced the first organizations to receive Health Care Innovation Awards. These awards, made possible by health care reform legislation, will support 26 innovative projects nationwide "that will save money, deliver high quality medical care and enhance the health care workforce." Tuesday's awards total $122.6 million. The UNM Health Sciences Center was one of the institutions among the awardees; Project ECHO™, a center in the Department of Internal Medicine, received $8,473,809 in funding for three years. Read more.

Project ECHO™ is conducting a free six-month training program for New Mexico Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Community Health Representatives (CHRs) to increase their knowledge and skills in caring for diabetes patients in their own communities. Read more.
A paper describing Project ECHO’s groundbreaking work to improve access to care for patients with hepatitis C has been named among the Most Influential Research Articles of 2011 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read more.