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Cultural Competence Initiative
The Le Moyne College Physician Assistant Program was awarded a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement the Le Moyne College Cultural Competence Initiative (LMC-CCI). This grant provides support for three years to develop a comprehensive program aimed at assuring culturally competent primary care by physician assistant graduates and at enhancing the level of cultural competence in primary health care among our partner agencies.
The LMC-CCI brings together university and community groups with long-standing concerns for the promotion of culturally competent healthcare and the elimination of health disparities. The overall purpose of the project is to meet the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing health disparities by ensuring that the graduates of the PA program have the skills to care for multicultural, multi-ethnic, multilinguistic populations, and that they provide care for populations in underserved communities. This initiative focuses on the health disparities and special need for culturally competent care in obesity, diabetes, asthma, tobacco, low birth weight, lead poisoning, HIV/AIDS/STDs, hypertension, and kidney disease.
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