Foundation Announces $9 Million in Fourth-Quarter Grants
Health Care and Coverage ($6,849,499)
The following is an overview of new funding to improve the health care and coverage opportunities for low-income Californians.
Using Technology to Strengthen the Safety Net
One of the key changes that community clinics and other safety net providers need to address are how to develop a more coordinated system of care and use data more effectively to improve the health of patients. Toward that end, BSCF is granting $4.5 million to bolster counties, community clinics, and other safety net providers in their use of electronic health records and other data to improve patient care and encourage providers to integrate their services and securely share patient information.
Health Plan of San Joaquin ($500,000 over 12 months): to develop and implement a health information exchange to better integrate service
delivery,improve quality of care and patient outcomes, and better manage population health across San Joaquin County.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services ($500,000 over 12 months): to improve and coordinate access to specialty care through an
electronic physician-to-specialist consultation and referral system.
Clinic Consortia Data Capacity ($1,150,000 over 12 months): to help California clinics operate efficiently and effectively through the use of data.
i2i Systems, Inc. ($200,000 over 12 months) and The California Regional Extension Center ($495,650 over 12 months): to pilot the development of
data collection and analytic tools to help community clinics and safety net providers improve their performance.
Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles ($750,000 over 24 months): to develop executive team program
focused on community clinics that is designed to help clinics use data to improve their performance.
Tides Center ($723,849 over 12 months): to create a learning network through the Community Clinic Initiative program to encourage the adoption
and spread of healthcare innovations among California safety net providers.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement ($200,000 over 12 months): to provide technical assistance to clinics that will be receiving Innovation
Challenge grants in 2012.
Expanding Coverage Under Health Reform
BSCF continues to play a leading role in supporting the state’s efforts to take full advantage of opportunities presented by health reform in efforts to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care. Fourth-quarter grants totaling $2.3 million, including more than $1.5 million to 13 counties, will spur expansion of coverage and provide information and analysis to key audiences.
County Low Income Health Programs ($1,505,000): to help 13 counties (Alameda, Los Angeles, Merced, Monterey, Orange, Placer, Riverside,
Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) continue to expand coverage for uninsured, legal residents under
the state’s Medicaid waiver.
Insure the Uninsured Project ($675,000 over 24 months): to provide healthcare policymakers and others with information and technical assistance
that can support the state’s efforts to expand coverage and strengthen the safety net.
Tide’s Center ($100,000 over 12 months): to support news and feature coverage through HealthyCal.org of issues related to health reform
implementation, safety net integration, redesign of primary care, and the perspectives of low-income health consumers.
Reaching Beyond Health Reform
The Foundation is also beginning to identify ways to address the important issues affecting the care of low-income Californians health reform will not address.
Northern California Grantmakers ($50,000 over 12 months): to design and implement a roundtable of statewide funders focused on the
integration of school health centers into the broader healthcare delivery system in California.
Blue Shield Against Violence ($2,047,385)
The Foundation also announced 14 new grants to strengthen culturally appropriate domestic violence services for Native American/American Indian, Black and African American, and recent immigrant populations across California.
The following organizations will receive support to engage domestic violence survivors and community members to increase awareness and practices of culturally competent, domestic violence outreach, prevention, and advocacy over the next 24 months:
Casa de Esperanza, Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa Counties ($160,000)
Center for Community Solutions, San Diego County ($152,300)
DeafHope, San Francisco Bay Area ($102,146)
Mujeres Unidas Y Activas, San Francisco Bay Area ($150,000)
The following organizations will receive grants to strengthen existing cultural competency efforts, practices, policies, or advocacy, related to domestic violence.
Vision Y Compromiso, Bay Area, Inland Empire, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Stanislaus counties ($150,000)
Rural Human Services, Del Norte County ($148,925)
Women’s Center of for San Joaquin County, San Joaquin County ($107,711)
The following organizations will receive grants to promote a more connected and culturally competent response to domestic violence with institutional partners and new stakeholders.
My Sister's House, Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin, Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, and Yolo counties ($160,000)
Humboldt Domestic Violence Services, Humboldt County ($157,887)
Tides Center for the project Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence, statewide ($156,000)
Interval House for the project African-American Network for Violence Free Relationships, statewide and Los Angeles ($152,416)
Jenesse Center, statewide and Los Angeles ($151,000)
Korean American Family Service Center, Los Angeles ($150,000)
Inter-Tribal Council of California, statewide ($149,000)
Other ($100,000)
The Foundation is also supporting Taproot Foundation ($100,000 over 12 months) to provide pro bono consulting services in areas such as marketing, information technology, and human resources to community clinics and domestic violence service providers.