Archived Grants
Visiting Nurse Service of New York and
Institute for Urban Family Health
To pilot test the transfer of clinical information on their common patients between the two organizations, through their respective electronic information systems, and to evaluate both IT applications and staff training.
Gouverneur Healthcare Services
To recruit and train 20 bilingual volunteers to work with the low-income immigrant patients with limited literacy skills to increase their grasp of medication management and medical terminology, and improve interactions with primary care physicians.
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
To support the prenatal clinic's Baby Basics Program by training volunteers to help orient new patients and increase their ability to navigate the health care system, assist with registration and with training for health literacy, and refer patients to outside community resources.
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
To help diabetic patients improve their health outcomes by training volunteers to enhance patients' health literacy skills, including teaching them to better understand food labels and manage their medications.
Lutheran Medical Center
To recruit and train volunteers to educate seniors about Medicare Part D and to help low-income and immigrant patients and community residents access, understand, and manage required prescription and other medications.
The New York Immigration Coalition
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) will create a multilingual outreach and education campaign aimed at improving immigrants' access to health care, directly addressing immigrants' confusion and misinformation that may discourage their seeking care, while providing accurate information for health providers and eligibility workers.
New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
To develop policy briefs on financial and demographic aspects of New York's EPIC program as related to Medicare Part D, and to create a “policy tool kit” to help promote EPIC expansion.
Community Service Society of New York
To monitor implementation of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, identify systemic problems, and recommend administrative and policy changes.
Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips, LLC
To help policymakers determine the role New York's Medicaid, EPIC (Elderly Prescription Insurance Coverage), and ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program) plans should play for low-income Medicare recipients qualifying for the Medicare Part D drug benefit.
Medicaid High-Cost Care Initiative
To create new services and redesign existing programs to better manage care for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex, high-cost needs.
eHealth Initiative Foundation
To update the Foundation's statewide health information technology information-sharing website, develop and disseminate training tools, engage additional regional projects in using the site, and provide user support.
Greater New York Hospital Foundation
To continue support for the joint Fund/Foundation/multi-hospital collaborative working to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units, and to develop and monitor additional ICU-based quality improvement measures.
Isabella Geriatric Center and
Cobble Hill Health Center
To continue support for development of a new person-centered care model, through pilot units within the two facilities, identification of other needed changes, and project monitoring and assessment.
Inventing the Wheel: Family Caregivers as Partners in Health Care
For a mix of grants and contracts supporting the development, testing, and dissemination of programs enabling health care providers to reappraise and revamp how they work with family caregivers.
What to Expect Foundation
To create a lingusitically and culturally competent Chinese translation of a healthy pregancy guide, and to develop a prenatal health literacy program for Chinese women and their providers.
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