Access
| Campaign for Better Health Care Fund
Quality/Equality Health Care Access Project Monitoring & Policy Initiative |
To increase the number of providers who accept Medicaid and CHIP patients and to identify and gain policymakers' agreement on the importance of addressing at least two major issues that have a negative impact on Medicaid/CHIP recipients' access to and quality of care. | $345,000 3 years |
| Center for Law and Social Policy
Beyond Devolution: Welfare Reform and Health Care |
To assure that limited state and federal government resources for health-related programs reach the maximum number of eligible children possible. | $75,000 1 year |
| Center for Law and Social Policy
Linking Low Wage Workers To Benefits |
To prepare a report for the Foundation which will discuss (1)linking existing benefits and services under the Workforce Investment Act, TANF and other funding sources to low-wage workers; (2)expanding the employer role in linking these benefits and services to families; and (3)creating new benefits and service for low wage workers that States could make available under TANF and other funding streams. | $25,000 6 months |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
State Low-Income Initiative Project |
To assure that limited state and federal government resources for health-related programs reach the maximum number of eligible children as possible. | $75,000 1 year |
| Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation
Putting Quality and Improved Access Into Maine's Child Health Programs |
To achieve increases in three of the following areas: early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment rates; the percentage of children receiving preventative dental care; the number of providers following professional protocols; the availability of "after hours care," "waiting room education," and use of transportation services. | $215,000 3 years |
| Families USA Foundation
Health Coverage Impacts of Welfare Reform, CHIP, Medicaid & Public Education |
To assure that as many children as are eligible are covered by government-supported health insurance. | $75,000 1 year |
| Health Care for All, Inc.
Kids Quality Access Initiative |
To develop quality of care standards for the state's health care programs for children and to develop and implement mechanisms and assure provider compliance. | $250,000 3 years |
| National Health Law Program, Inc.
Policy Analysis & T/A on Changes in Medicaid/Medicare To State Advocates |
To continue its collaborative work with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and with the National Center for Youth Law to increase the capacity of state-based legal advocates to protect the legal rights of low-income Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. | $75,000 1 year |
| Oregon Health Access Project
Covered Kids: Access & Quality |
To involve consumers and community advocates in research and community organizing to achieve state policy and local delivery improvements in the areas of language interpretation, transportation, provider access or dental access. | $225,000 3 years |
| Pennsylvania Health Law Project
Improving Access and Quality of Care for Children Enrolled in Medicaid CHIP |
To improve children on Medicaid's access to care and quality of care. | $345,000 3 years |
| Tennessee Health Care Campaign, Inc.
Early Child Health Outreach -- ECHO |
To double the number of children enrolled in the state's Medicaid program who receive the early and periodic screen, diagnostic and treatment services to which they are entitled under law. | $225,000 3 years |
Beginning of Life
| Boston University Trustees
Parents As Partners |
To create an environment in which families are treated with respect, courtesy and the understanding of their cultures in contacts with the medical center. | $75,000 1 year |
| Children Now
Managed Care & Early Childhood Development Initiative |
To promote the use of family-centered care by providing health plan administrators and clinicians with practical information and resources. | $35,000 1 year |
| Grantmakers In Health
Meeting on Family-Centered Approaches To Care for Health Philanthropists Washington, DC |
To explore the possibility of a meeting with health funders on Family-centered care as part of the follow-up to Families ReUnion7: Families and Health. | $10,000 1 year |
| Institute for Family Centered Care, Inc.
Moving Forward W/ FCC for Pregnant Women, Infants and Children |
To establish family-centered approaches to care as the standard for maternal and pediatric care. | $120,000 1 year |
| Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc.
Moving Forward W/ Family Centered Maternity Care At The MCG |
To implement family-centered approaches to prenatal care services. | $75,000 1 year |
End of Life
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation
The Community Ethics Program |
To work in collaboration with an African American and a Korean American community in order to identify their end-of-life concerns and to test the appropriateness of end-of-life materials developed for the majority community to meet those concerns. | $86,000 2 years |
| American Medical Association
Project on Quality At The End of Life |
For a project to investigate the patient's experience of and the caregiver's impression of the patient-physician relationship. | $45,000 1 year |
| Americans for Better Care of the Dying
General Support |
To operate as an information and resource network for organizations, associations and individuals committed to improving end-of-life care. | $40,000 1 year |
| CDR Associates
A Mediated Dialogue on End-Of-Life Issues and Physician-Assisted Suicide |
To support a series of seven mediated dialogues between policy makers, healthcare experts and others who have a professional interest in physician-assisted suicide and other end-of-life issues. | $25,000 9 months |
| Choice In Dying
No Pain, All Gain! A National Pain Initiative |
To improve care of the dying by building an informed consumer voice at the national and state levels in support of constructive change in policies that affect the dying process. | $75,000 1 year |
| Duke University
Implementing Contemplative Care in A Hospice Setting |
For a collaborative demonstration and research project between Duke and Triangle Hospice that will train hospice staff and volunteers in the contemplative methodologies developed by Upaya's "Being with Dying" program. | $50,00 1 year |
| Lake Sosin Snell Perry Associates, Inc.
Messages Development: Improving End-Of-Life Care |
To test messages aimed at encouraging the public to focus on improving end-of-life care, as opposed to the activities of Kevorkian and members of the radical right. | $50,000 1 month |
| Missoula Demonstration Project, Inc.
General Support |
To demonstrate that quality of life can be preserved during the dying process and that superior care of patients and their families can be provided in a cost effective manner. | $100,000 1 year |
| Park Ridge Center
Spiritual Care At The End of Life: The Role Of Hospital, Hospice and Clergy |
To conduct a study and to develop, pilot and evaluate a program to improve the capacity of clergy to meet the spiritual needs of people who are dying and their families. | $222,200 2 years |
| Philadelphia Geriatric Center
Forgiveness As Concept and Tool At The End of The Life Span |
To examine the role of forgiveness in the developmental work of later life and to identify the cultural, ethnic and religious components in narratives of forgiveness. | $52,400 1 year |
| United Hospital Fund of New York
The Families and Health Care Project (FHCP) |
To advance public and professional understanding of the crucial role of family caregivers in the health care system, and to stimulate the development of sound policies and programs that support their needs for education and training, emotional support, and information and communication. | 1 year |
Beginnings of Life / End of Life
| Center for Law and Social Policy
Devolution, Welfare Reform and Health Care Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
State Low-Income Initiative Project Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children, the chronically ill and the elderly. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Families USA Foundation
Medicaid Community Assistance and Public Education Project Washington, DC |
To provide information and technical assistance to state-based public interest groups concerned about Medicaid managed care and state use of SCHIP. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Advancing Mental Health Programs for Young Low-Income Children Washington, DC |
To assure that, as states restructure their Medicaid programs, the needs of children with mental health problems are addressed. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
Increasing Access To Medicare Home Health & Hospice Benefits for the Terminal Ill New York, NY |
To conduct an educational outreach project to increase access to to and use of home and hospice care among terminally ill patients with Medicare. |
$110,000
2 years |
| National Health Law Program, Inc.
Policy Analysis & Technical Assistance on Changes in Medicaid/Medicare To Legal Advocates Los Angeles, CA |
To continue its collaborative work with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and with the National Center for Youth Law to increase the capacity of state-based legal advocates to protect the legal rights of low-income Medicaid and Medicare recipients. |
$90,000
1 year |
Beginning of Life / End of Life
| National Institute for Healthcare Research
Professional Retreat Rockville, MD |
To support a weekend retreat program for healthcare professionals interested in reevaluating their own spirituality and individual beliefs and discussing ways to incorporate these beliefs into their clinical practices. |
$5,000
9 months |
CAH Grants
| Center for the Advancement of Health
General Support Washington, DC |
To promote approaches to health that recognize the link between physical health and psychological, spiritual, social, economic and environmental factors. |
$600,000
2 years |