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Article: CIGNA Receives Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Help Improve High Blood Pressure Control in Diverse Populations.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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CIGNA (NYSE:CI) has received a grant from Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) at the University of Chicago that evaluates interventions aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic health care disparities in local communities. CIGNA and six other grantees were selected from a pool of 111 proposals and join 21 sites awarded funding since December 2006 (see also CIGNA).
CIGNA was the only commercial health plan to receive a grant from the Finding Answers program this year and will use it to study novel ways to improve high blood pressure control in diverse populations. The project will be ...