Capacity Building
Advancing Health Equity through a Navajo COVID-19 Community of Practice: A one-year grant to support establishing a sustainable regional Navajo network of COVID-19 case management providers for contact tracing and testing; and to pilot promising practices and disseminate impactful models across network sites, in coordination with COPE (separate grant: $82,720).
Project Leader:
Laura Hammitt
Grant Partner:
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Year:
2021
Amount:
$81320
New Models of Care
Fourth installment of funding for a five-year project to develop and test tools and resources for the families of adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities, as well as risk stratification tools to identify adults who are at greatest risk of institutional placement. Aims include improved and more practical assistance for a population of families who have largely been underserved. Co-funded with The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation as part of their Greater Value Portfolio.
Project Leader:
Dr. Sophia Jan
Grant Partner:
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Year:
2021
Amount:
$80000
Capacity Building
A six-month grant to create a virtual collaborative network of mass vaccination site leaders to exchange information and shared learnings to improve implementation and equity in COVID-19 vaccinations.
Project Leader:
Dr. Eric Goralnick
Grant Partner:
Ariadne Labs
Year:
2021
Amount:
$33653
Geriatric Medicine
A one-year grant to support a face validity and field experience pilot of Ariadne Labs’ set of tools to reimagine well-being metrics, frontline staff roles, and communication practices at three nursing home sites in Massachusetts.
Project Leader:
Evan Benjamin
Grant Partner:
Araidne Labs
Year:
2021
Amount:
$125000
Health Care Reform
Second installment of two-year grant to build support among a broad range of organizations and coalitions to raise awareness of the Medicare Part D statutory barrier that limits access to PACE for Medicare-only beneficiaries, and to work with stakeholders and key decision-makers toward a system-wide regulatory solution.
Project Leader:
Anne Montgomery
Grant Partner:
Altarum Institute
Year:
2021
Amount:
$119986
Capacity Building
Second installment of two-year grant to support building organizational capacity and expanding impact by hiring a new Executive Director, and to increase efforts to impact public policy that affects homeless women in Massaschusetts.
Project Leader:
Dr. Roseanna Means
Grant Partner:
Health Care Without Walls
Year:
2021
Amount:
$85000
