Archived Grants
Health Resources Incorporated
To conduct an up-to-date analysis of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and claims data to identify opportunities to provide improved health care services in a cost-effective fashion for low-income New Yorkers with the most complex and costly health care needs.
New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
To analyze the implications of the new Medicare legislation on pharmaceutical coverage in New York State, identify best strategies for EPIC expansion and transition with the new Medicare Part D benefits, and investigate the options for enhancing pharmaceutical access for non-elderly disabled individuals.
Literacy Assistance Center
To create a program manual to guide the development of partnerships between literacy programs and health care providers.
Northern Brooklyn Health Consortium (Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and Brooklyn Borough President's office)
To develop and create a Health Disparities Center in Brooklyn to address the issue of health disparities through research, service, and education.
Samaritan Village
To investigate the feasibility of creating a replicable medically enhanced therapeutic community model program to provide integrated substance abuse and medical services for persons with Hepatitis C Virus.
Beth Abraham Health Services
To produce three training videos through Beth Abraham's Institute of Music and Neurologic Function to enable Certified Nursing Assistants and other caregivers to provide therapeutic music experiences to people with dementia.
Montefiore Medical Center
To establish more effective patterns of communication between hospital discharge staff and community-based providers for NORC residents admitted to and discharged from the hospital. This grant is part of the NORC Health Care Linkages Project.
Resources for Children with Special Needs
To increase access to critically needed programs and services for New York City children up through 21 years of age with disabilities and special health needs by providing their families and the professionals who work with them with up-to-date information via print publications and a website.
Bellevue Hospital Center
To continue to recruit and train volunteers to support the Health Education and Literacy for Parents (HELP) project, which seeks to improve parents' ability to read and understand health care instructions and communicate with pediatricians.
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
In collaboration with The Shira Ruskay Center of The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, to train “CARE-ing Doula” volunteers to provide comfort and companionship to hospitalized patients and their families, particularly at end of life.
Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility
To recruit and train students from high schools, colleges, and media schools as volunteers to expand the hospital's radio station broadcasts to other New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation facilities within the range of the station's signal.
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
To recruit and train volunteers to serve as advocates and provide support to emergency department patients.
New York Methodist Hospital
In collaboration with Adult Literacy Media Alliance, to establish a project to improve health literacy among patients at the hospital's Family Health Center of Flatbush, using volunteers from the Flatbush and East Flatbush communities.
St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children
To recruit and train volunteers to work collaboratively with parents, teachers, and recreation staff to provide Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT), an intensive program of therapy for children affected by paralysis and traumatic injury.
St. Vincent's Midtown Hospital
To establish the Geriatric Supportive Patient Care Volunteer Program, which will train volunteers to provide geriatric inpatients with non-medical supportive services such as friendly visiting, letter writing, and assistance with telephone calls, and to provide post-discharge follow-up in the community.
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