Grants
Jewish Home Lifecare
To advance culture change by focusing on quality-of-life issues and evaluating improvements, with elder and family satisfaction data generated from “My Inner View,” a national performance improvement survey instrument.
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.
Bellevue Hospital Center
To develop healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in Latino families, a training curriculum will be developed for Reach Out and Read and Health Literacy volunteers who work in pediatric waiting rooms — with the goal of helping to reduce childhood obesity.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
To expand a successful effort to recruit and train volunteers to the Hospital Elder Life Program, which provides targeted interventions addressing a broad scope of geriatric issues known to contribute to cognitive and functional decline during hospitalization.
Montefiore Medical Center
To improve the hospital experience by engaging volunteers as Caregiver Support Coaches to provide support and one-on-one practical assistance to family caregivers struggling to care for a loved one who is hospitalized or in treatment.
The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
To ensure that patients and their caregivers who experience difficulty navigating the health care system receive support, education, and guidance to care for themselves or their loved ones.
Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center
To increase access to primary medical care services for psychiatry patients through the use of volunteer patient navigators.
Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans/Children’s Defense Fund-New York
To improve New York City’s new online public health insurance renewal tool through consumer testing and literacy review.
New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
To analyze the policy implications of federal health reform in New York for people with serious illness and disabilities.
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
To integrate effective palliative care services at New York City public hospitals and nursing homes, and in home care settings.
New York Botanical Garden
To improve the quality of health care for underserved Latino immigrant communities by educating and training health care professionals about plant-based medicines and other traditional remedies that are commonly used in the Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Mexican communities.
New York University College of Dentistry
To develop and evaluate a community-clinic referral model that aims to increase oral health prevention and treatment among older adults.
Project HEALTH NY
To expand the Family Help Desk program, which uses volunteer-based services in health clinics to help low-income families meet their housing, food, education, and other resource needs.
IPRO
To design a scorecard to measure and monitor cost, quality, access, equity, and other dimensions of health system performance at a community level throughout New York State.
Reducing Maternal Obesity Complications
To reduce obesity-related complications in pregnancy and birth through collaboration on the design and testing/validation of a multidisciplinary "care bundle" for obese pregnant women.
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