Redesigning Health Care Services: Grants
Amida Care
To expand access to primary medical care for Medicaid-eligible, HIV-positive New Yorkers currently not receiving consistent care or treatment, and to strengthen primary care service delivery systems to better retain clients in care by creating an effective medical home.
Maimonides Medical Center
To help improve health outcomes and support coordination of care for older adults with chronic illness by developing a model for training and supporting them, and their family caregivers, to access Internet-based health information in their homes.
Commission on the Public’s Health System
To identify the characteristics of culturally competent health care by surveying families and providers.
Highbridge Community Life Center
To plan a multi-partner initiative that engages community-based organizations, government, health care and social service providers, and funders to create and support a comprehensive strategy for improving health in Highbridge that will link government programs and policies with strong neighborhood initiatives.
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center/Center for Comprehensive Care
To reorient and expand the Center for Comprehensive Care Morningside Clinic for HIV-positive patients into a patient-centered medical home, to include care for formerly incarcerated men and women, and other persons with chronic diseases.
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc.
To develop a set of recommendations for restructuring the community-based long-term care delivery system to improve the training, quality, and stability of the home care workforce.
Center for Home Care Policy and Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
To analyze patient characteristics, service utilization patterns, spending, and health outcomes for home care beneficiaries in four Medicaid community-based long-term care programs, in order to inform system redesign options.
The What to Expect Foundation
To develop a business case for integration of the Baby Basics Program—an education program for expectant mothers with limited health literacy skills—into existing state prenatal funding.
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
To strengthen and enhance the Institute’s community-based health intervention programs to better empower underserved populations.
New York City AIDS Fund
To facilitate strategic grantmaking aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to support advocacy for responsive public programs.
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
To utilize statewide Medicaid claims and encounter data to improve understanding of personal care utilization and costs, and to assess the impact of mandatory managed care on SSI patients.
Bellevue Hospital Center
To extend an existing Bellevue pilot program that provides intensive care management for high-cost fee-for-service Medicaid patients.
New York City AIDS Fund
To support a collaborative AIDS grantmaking initiative, through the AIDS Fund's awarding of grants in 2008 to approximately 20 community organizations. The grants will support both innovative HIV prevention programs sponsored by community-based organizations and projects that advance responsive HIV/AIDS public policies.
Aging in Place Initiative
To complete the development and launch of the NORC Blueprint website and to support the analysis and management of the database for the Health Indicators in NORC Programs Initiative.
Children of Bellevue
To test the effectiveness of a pictogram-based health communication intervention designed for physicians at Bellevue Hospital's pediatric clinic to help families understand medications and reduce potential medication errors with young patients. This grant is made possible with funds raised in part by the Fund's New Leadership Group's 2007 Healthy Kids benefit.
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