Sentara Health Foundation Awards $700,000 to Community Organizations

Sentara Health Foundation helps improve health throughout Virginia by helping fund community organizations.For 2011, Sentara Health Foundation awards 29 grants totaling more than $709,200 to organizations promoting health and wellness.
By: Sentara Health Foundation
 
June 3, 2011 - PRLog -- Beneficiaries are located from Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore—

Norfolk, VA – Sentara Health Foundation helps improve health throughout Hampton Roads by helping fund community organizations which share the mission of improving the health of the community. For 2011, Sentara Health Foundation announces the award of 29 grants totaling more than $709,200 to organizations promoting health and wellness from Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore. This continues a long history of community grant making through Sentara Health Foundation. Below are several examples of how funding is being used through 2011 grants, followed by a full grant listing.


Community Free Clinic of Newport News
Centered in Area of Health Care Need within the City

The Sentara grant of $179,200 is helping establish this clinic that is now expanding clinic hours and access to both primary care and dental care to Peninsula residents in desperate need of heath care.


ACCESS TO BASIC HEALTHCARE

Access Partnership - $50,000
Expand the service area of the Community Access to Care Program, a voluntary coordinated care program which aims to improve the health of uninsured, low-income persons receiving primary care at a safety net provider site who also need specialty, diagnostic and therapeutic care services.

American Red Cross Dental Clinic - $20,000
To expand the number of available dental appointments during the calendar year by opening additional evenings each month.

Beach Health Clinic - $20,000
To provide uninsured, low income diabetics with access to medications, diabetes education, endocrinology appointments and classes on healthy living and diabetes management.

Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia – $23,000
To support the Training and Therapy for the Uninsured program which offers short‐term counseling services to uninsured adults in eastern Virginia.

Chesapeake Care, Inc. - $13,000
To give targeted individual and group education on self-management and lifestyle changes for patients with Type I and Type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM).

Community Free Clinic of Newport News - $179,200
To establish a clinic to provide primary and dental care for uninsured residents of the Virginia Peninsula.

ForKids, Inc. - $25,000
To provide homeless families with medical case management services.

Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment and Endowment (FREE) – $10,000
To acquire, refurbish and distribute mobility-related rehabilitative equipment to individuals in the community who need it but cannot afford it.

Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic - $15,000
To subsidize the funding of prescriptions for new clinic patients who have chronic diseases.

H.E.L.P., Inc. – $10,000
To provide free dental care for uninsured, low income persons at or below 200% of the Federal poverty guidelines as part of the Regional Oral Health Initiative of the Greater Virginia Peninsula Consortium of Free Clinics.

Lackey Free Clinic - $20,000
To continue the Basic Health Services and Pharmacy Expansion project by serving patients with hypertension.

Olde Towne Medical Center - $29,000
To support a part-time pediatric dentist in the dental clinic to benefit children in the Williamsburg area who are medically indigent, uninsured or Medicaid recipients.

Peninsula Institute for Community Health (P.I.C.H.) - $28,000
To support the Medical Home Learning Collaborative on Developmental Screening program, ensuring that young pediatric patients receive a standardized developmental screen and appropriate referrals for those needing early intervention.

Portsmouth Community Health Center, Inc. - $60,000
To support a full-time equivalent family practice physician in the center, which will generate increased patient visits within the year.

RxPartnership - $15,000
To support the efforts of RxPartnership in connecting free clinics and community health centers which serve low-income, uninsured patients with pharmaceutical partners.

Seton Youth Shelters - $12,500
To support the Mobile Street and Van Outreach Program which includes counseling and case management services for at-risk youth and young adults.

St. Columba Ecumenical Ministries - $15,000
To support the Prescription Program, which assists homeless individuals in the city of Norfolk by paying for their medications while long-term resources are established.

The Up Center – $10,000
To expand the services offered by the Seeking Safety program, a collaboration addressing the mental health needs of women who have suffered domestic violence, homelessness and other trauma.

Union Mission Ministries - $35,000
To support the Wellness Program, an initiative providing healthcare coordination to homeless single men and women in the Hampton Roads area.

Virginia Supportive Housing - $10,000
To expand the successful medical and mental health case management activities to formerly homeless individuals residing in VSH’s Supportive Studio Apartments.

Western Tidewater Free Clinic - $25,000
To fund additional physician services to increase clinic capacity to over 500 additional patient visits per year and provide additional on-site guidance of the nurse practitioner.

Williamsburg Area Faith in Action - $8,000
To support the Caring Neighbors program, a service which provides transportation for seniors and adults with a chronic illness or physical disability on an as-needed basis to medical appointments.

FRAIL AND AT-RISK ELDERLY

Mary Buckley Foundation, Inc. - $5,000
To support “Put Your Brain In Gear,” a project of Mary Buckley Foundation’s Beacon House, which seeks to prevent teenagers from making poor choices while driving.

Peninsula Agency on Aging, Inc. – $5,000
To support the Care Coordination Program, linking frail seniors to medical and other health services.

Sickle Cell Association - $15,025
To help people with sickle cell cope with the severity of frequent, debilitating effects of the disease.

Southside Geropsychiatric Services - $6,475
To provide funding for Senior Care Training Initiative, for updated training materials to enhance the knowledge and skills of long-term care facility staff and caregivers regarding senior adult mental health issues (including dementia).

Suffolk Salvation Army Corps. - $10,000
To provide low-income frail and elderly residents with transportation to medical appointments, pharmacies, and wellness clinics throughout Western Tidewater.

PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IMPROVEMENT

Chesapeake Health Investment Program (C.H.I.P.) – $20,000
To provide prenatal services to uninsured pregnant women in Chesapeake and Portsmouth.

Office of Human Affairs, City of Newport News - $15,000
To support the Resource Mothers Program, a program which assists pregnant and parenting teens in low-income neighborhoods of Newport News.


About Sentara Health Foundation
Sentara Health Foundation was established in 1998 to improve quality of life and further the Sentara not-for-profit mission of improving the health of the community. For the past 13 years, Sentara Health Foundation has touched the lives of many Virginia residents from the Eastern Shore to Greater Hampton Roads through grants supporting community programs. To learn more or to donate, visit www.sentara.com

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Sentara Healthcare is an acknowledged leader in patient safety and quality innovation. Founded in 1888 as the Retreat for the Sick in Norfolk, Virginia, Sentara has ranked for more than a decade among the nation's top integrated healthcare systems by Modern Healthcare magazine and is the #1 most integrated health care system for the last two years. Sentara, a not-for-profit health system, operates more than 100 sites of care serving residents across Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The system is comprised of 9 acute care hospitals, advanced imaging centers, nursing and assisted-living centers, outpatient campuses, two home health and hospice agencies, a 3,680-provider medical staff, and three medical groups with 618 providers. Sentara also offers medical transport ambulances and Nightingale, the first air ambulance serving Hampton Roads. Optima Health, an award winning Sentara owned health plan, serves 433,000 members in Virginia. Learn more at www.sentara.com
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