Archived Grants

Greater New York Hospital Association

Grant Date: 03.23.2008
Amount: $500,000 over two years

To sustain and enhance the quality improvement infrastructure developed through the Greater New York Hospital Association/United Hospital Fund partnership by expanding existing collaborative activities and designing and implementing an innovative regional quality improvement training curriculum to engage and prepare clinical “champions.”

Care for the Homeless

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $60,000

To measure the effectiveness of treatment interventions and identify opportunities for improving care at a new shelter for chronically homeless single women. Located in the Bronx, the shelter, Susan's Place, will provide residential and drop-in services and have an on-site licensed medical unit. Evaluation criteria will include placement in housing, employment, and medication adherence.

Montefiore Medical Center

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $75,000

To create a credentialing process for clinical ethics consultants to address the growing demand for such consultation services in hospitals. Because recent studies have shown that most clinical ethics consultants do not have any formal training, the two-year grant will also facilitate the development of a model training program, as well as a quality improvement tool.

The Door – A Center for Alternatives

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $70,000

To launch a health education program for at-risk 17- to 20-year-olds who face obesity and other nutrition-related illnesses. Through the program's adolescent health center, in Manhattan, youths will be screened for obesity-related ailments.

UNITE Health Center

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $75,000

To develop and implement a training program for medical assistants to help them in working with patients with complex chronic conditions such as hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, obesity, diabetes, and coronary artery disease.

Campaign for Family Caregivers:
Family Caregivers as Partners in Health Care

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $250,000

To continue to support the Fund's Campaign for Family Caregivers, whose goal is to redefine how health care providers perceive and work with family caregivers, especially during transitions from one patient care setting to another.

Community Service Society of New York

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $75,000

To better understand what lower-income persons who are not eligible for public programs can afford for health insurance coverage (i.e., premiums, deductibles, and co-pays).

1199 SEIU Labor Management Initiatives

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $55,000

To adapt the 1199 SEIU Labor Management Initiatives model of culture change into two professional learning guides for nursing homes, illustrating how to implement this model at their sites.

Center for Information Therapy

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $50,000

To work with selected primary care providers in New York City to develop and implement tools and practices that advance patient-centered health care system redesign through the use of health information technology.

Medicaid High-Cost Care Initiative

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $300,000

To better serve high-cost Medicaid patients and reduce Medicaid spending on their care, through the Fund's Medicaid High-Cost Care Initiative.

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, Inc.

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $40,000

To identify gaps in health care services for elderly Asian Americans, whose population doubled in New York City between 1990 and 2000, and address practice changes essential to meeting their needs.

Make the Road by Walking

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $50,000

To improve asthma treatment and alleviate asthma triggers in patients' homes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, where hospitalization rates for children with asthma are among the city's highest.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $40,000

To establish the Asthma Literacy Project, in conjunction with the South Bronx Asthma Partnership and the Literacy Assistance Center, utilizing volunteers as trainers to help increase the asthma-related health literacy of parents of children with asthma in the South and Central Bronx.

The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $40,000

To develop the Pharmacy Partners Program to provide health literacy support—for patients in the outpatient pharmacy, the Brookdale Family Care Center at Linden, and the Treatment for Life Center's HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic—intended to increase understanding of medication safety, improve compliance with managing multiple medications, and facilitate communication between patients and their providers.

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $40,000

To expand the Pregnancy Pals Volunteer Program, in conjunction with the What To Expect Foundation, to develop a pre-conception guide and train volunteers to provide support to pre-pregnancy and prenatal patients in the outpatient OB/GYN service.