Grant Highlights
Health
The clinic, which has been delivering free, comprehensive medical services to uninsured, low-income Arlington County residents since 1994, handled 10,000 patient visits and filled 15,000 prescriptions last year. This two-year grant helps to implement a multiyear medical transformation project designed to integrate new electronic systems that expand patient access to high-quality care.
Culturally and linguistically competent health services are offered by the center to low-income, underserved Asians and other diverse populations living in southwest Houston, home to the nation’s fourth-largest Asian community. This two-year grant from the Health Clinic Opportunity Fund supports the expansion of primary-care services to meet the rapidly growing demand for health care. The fund is designed to bridge, build, and sustain the operations of high-performing community health centers serving diverse and vulnerable populations. It targeted free clinics, public health clinics and designated federally qualified health center look-alikes to meet both the immediate and long-term health needs of their constituents. Priority was given to projects that leverage existing resources, create more effective operating systems, improve efficiencies, and expand and maintain access to health services for vulnerable populations.
The department has seen a 30 percent increase in clients who lack insurance or the ability to pay for primary-care and family-support services. This two-year grant from the Health Clinic Opportunity Fund helps to expand the dental program and increase the days services are available, providing greater access to pediatric care for children. The fund is designed to bridge, build, and sustain the operations of high-performing community health centers serving diverse and vulnerable populations. It targeted free clinics, public health clinics and designated federally qualified health center look-alikes to meet both the immediate and long-term health needs of their constituents. Priority was given to projects that leverage existing resources, create more effective operating systems, improve efficiencies, and expand and maintain access to health services for vulnerable populations.
The system serves more than 45,000 medically underserved patients through its six community health centers and six school-based clinics. This planning grant enables Baltimore Medical to collaborate with key government and community agencies on developing a strategy for elevating the role of community health care in Maryland’s health-system reforms.
The system serves more than 44,000 medically underserved patients through its six community health centers and four school-based clinics. This challenge grant supports the construction of the LEED-rated Highlandtown Healthy Living Center, which advances efforts to address the root causes of health disparities and to promote new prevention strategies among low-income people.
The center has provided health services to medically underinsured communities for nearly 40 years, and is partnering on a model project to develop a community-based leadership organization. This three-year grant supports the leadership organization, which aims to ensure that comprehensive health and fitness services are available to vulnerable residents of Sheldon Township.
The private, nonprofit academic medical center in Boston’s historic South End is New England’s largest safety-net hospital. This two-year grant enables the Medical Legal Partnership for Children program to expand and increase the sustainability of its National Center and affiliated programs, which utilize legal aid to augment primary-care services for low-income children and their families.
The private, nonprofit academic medical center in Boston’s historic South End is New England’s largest safety-net hospital. A four-year grant enables the National Center for Medical Legal Partnership to build the capacity, effectiveness, and funding resources of local and regional medical-legal partnerships, which help to remove legal and social barriers to health care for low-income children and their families.
The center functions as a multipurpose human-services agency providing community-driven programs, including Claymont Family Health Services, which offers health care treatment to uninsured and underinsured children and adults in New Castle County. Funding from this two-year grant enables the center to maintain its operations and expand its services to meet increased demand.
The free clinic provides vulnerable residents with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social counseling. Strained by a 50 percent increase in patient visits in 2009, the clinic is using this two-year grant from the Health Clinic Opportunity Fund to maintain its level of services, improve patient care, and advance professional staff development. The fund is designed to bridge, build, and sustain the operations of high-performing community health centers serving diverse and vulnerable populations. It targeted free clinics, public health clinics and designated federally qualified health center look-alikes to meet both the immediate and long-term health needs of their constituents. Priority was given to projects that leverage existing resources, create more effective operating systems, improve efficiencies, and expand and maintain access to health services for vulnerable populations.