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Allegany/Western Steuben Rural Health Network
, Allegany County, NY: $6,000 to expand the availability of Powerful Tools for Caregivers to benefit caregivers of Allegany County. The funds will cover the training of class leaders and replacement leaders over a two-year period.
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Alzheimer's Association of WNY
Williamsville, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to improve transitions from hospital to home for people with dementia using a transition coach.
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Alzheimer's Association of WNY
Williamsville, NY: $100,000 to develop a practical DVD to assist nursing home staff and family caregivers in preventing and managing the behavioral problems of Alzheimer's patients and to pilot test it in several Buffalo nursing homes.
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ARISE
Syracuse, NY: $149,945 for counseling for children and families at two Syracuse School District elementary schools.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo
Buffalo, NY: $150,000 to provide dental services in partnership with the Buffalo Community Health Center to youth and families.
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Buffalo Academy of Medicine- Buffalo, NY: $7,500 for a facilitator to help solidify the planning and development needed to design a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) for Western New York.
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Buffalo Ensemble Theatre
Buffalo, NY: $88,000 to develop an interactive theater program for inner-city high-risk Buffalo teens focusing on health careers and health risks.
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C-Match
Syracuse, NY: $149,995 to establish a Fetal and Infant Mortality/Morbidity Review/Registry (FIMMRR) for Onondaga County, providing critical feedback to healthcare providers, which can be used for Continuous Quality Improvement.
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CCH Home Care and Palliative Services
, Liverpool, NY: $11,308 to establish a home telehealth program. Through this grant, CCH will lease monitoring equipment for use with an estimated 50 Medicaid clientele who are long term patients with chronic conditions.
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Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
, Western & Central NY: $7,000 to provide scholarship support for WNY and CNY health reporters to participate in the Association's Urban Health Journalism Workshop, to be held in New York City on October 12 & 13, 2007.
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Center for Hospice & Palliative Care
Cheektowaga, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to raise the awareness of end-of-life options for adults with developmental disabilities and reduce unnecessary transfer to higher levels of care.
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Center for Hospice & Palliative Care
Cheektowaga, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to improve the transition to end-of-life care for appropriate patients in a medical practice.
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Center for Hospice & Palliative Care
Cheektowaga, NY: up to $4,000 for successful participation in the Community Health Foundation’s Quality Improvement Collaborative to Benefit Frail Elders.
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Child & Family Services
Buffalo, NY: $92,840 to implement Anasazi software to increase staff time to provide direct services to clients.
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Commission for a Healthy Central New York
Syracuse, NY: $67,000 to support the eight county health departments in CNY efforts to organize and lead regional advocacy and development in four priority areas; obesity, mental health, dental health and stroke.
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Community Care of WNY- $150,000 to support the early development for the first rural PACE site in New York State.
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Community Care of WNY (Home Care & Hospice)- Olean, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to increase the ability of older patients with CHF and COPD to better manage their care and reduce avoidable hospitalizations and emergency care using a transition coach.
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Community Concern of WNY
Derby, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to improve the success for frail elders discharged from a TLC facility using a transition coach.
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Community Dispute Resolution Center
, Ithaca, NY: $5,600 to expand the Community Dispute Resolution Center's Wise Talk Program to include a peer referral component. Wise Talk offers mediation to elders, their families and the professionals with whom they interact.
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Concept Systems
Ithaca, NY: $17,650 to engage stakeholders from three neighborhoods in the City of Buffalo in a consensus building process that will identify priorities and guide the development of strategies to assist frail elders to age in place in the identified neighborhoods.
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Continuing Care Foundation
(an organization of the Catholic Health System), Buffalo, NY: $300,000 from the Community Health Foundation’s donor advised fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo for development of a Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) in Lackawanna, NY.
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Council on Aging of Niagara County
Niagara Falls, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to initiative a self-management program for elders to reduce unnecessary hospitalization.
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Crouse Hospital
Syracuse, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to reduce avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations as well as improve self-management using a transition coach.
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Crouse Hospital
Syracuse, NY: up to $4,000 for successful participation in the Community Health Foundation’s Quality Improvement Collaborative to Benefit Frail Elders.
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D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY: $15,210 to plan and implement a conference designed to disseminate the results of the 2004 Health Risk Assessment to appropriate organizations, individuals and other interested parties.
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Diocese of Buffalo
Buffalo, NY: $73,043 to provide training to decrease bullying and increase cultural competency in the Diocese’s 20 most impoverished schools.
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East Hill Family Medical
Auburn, NY: $35,000 to expand dental services capacity by 20% through a combination of the grant from CHFWCNY and a $65,000 loan from the Primary Care Development Corporation.
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Everywoman Opportunity Center, Inc.
, Buffalo, NY: $7,500 to provide training for WNY Nuts & Bolts grantees on use of the Self-Sufficiency Calculator and assess the impact of the training.
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Family Health Network of Cortland
Ithaca, NY: $25,000 from the Community Health Foundation's donor advised fund at the Community Foundation of Tompkins County to expand and relocate the Family Health Network (Cortland, NY) Dental Clinic.
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Genesee County Office for the Aging
Batavia, NY: $42,533 to implement a county-wide collaborative process with key organizations and constituencies designed to integrate the county's long term care providers into a more coordinated system of care and improve access to these activities
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Grantmakers Forum of New York
Rochester, NY: $5,000 in matching funds to support a New York State-wide effort to educate Grantmakers in issues related to aging and provide information on how to effectively support efforts related to aging and elders.
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Grantmakers in Health
: $5,000 in support of the Grantmakers in Health Dialogue meeting on rural health held on November 20, 2008.
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Health for All of WNY
Buffalo, NY: $100,000 to repeat a household survey to show changes since 1998 in health status and health behaviors in western New York communities.
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Healthy Community Alliance
, Gowanda, NY: $15,350 for the Springville/Concord Task Force to further assess the unmet needs of seniors residing in the Town of Concord and the Village of Springville and beging a planning process to address the needs.
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Home Aides of CNY
Syracuse, NY: $75,000 to support an innovative mobile recruitment program for nursing aides who live in rural areas of Oswego and Onondaga counties.
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Horizon Village Inc.
Sanborn, NY: $100,000 to help build a clinic for mental health and primary care services on the site of the residential facility for substance-abusing individuals.
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Hospicare & Palliative Care Service of Tompkins County
Ithaca, NY: Up to $30,000 to particpate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to improve quality of life and self-management of symptoms for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment using a transition coach.
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Hospice Chautauqua County
Mayville, NY: Up to $30,000 to participate in the Community Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Care Transitions for Frail Elders. The team will work to reduce unnecessary emergency care and admission for patients with CHF and COPD and will increase appropriate transition to end-of-life care.
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Hospice Foundation of WNY
for St. John Hospice/Buffalo House Initiative, Buffalo, NY: $100,000 to provide community outreach and recruit and train staff for hospice work in inner-city neighborhoods in Erie County
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Hospice of the Finger Lakes
Auburn, NY: up to $4,000 for successful participation in the Community Health Foundation’s Quality Improvement Collaborative to Benefit Frail Elders.
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Human Services Coalition of Cayuga County (United Way of Cayuga County)
for the Human Services Coalition of Cayuga County, Auburn, NY: $70,000 to support a two-year county-wide effort to improve health-care decision-making for frail elders. The project, known as Sharing Your Wishes has been extended for one year with an additional grant of $35,000. In May 2008 an additional $15,000 was awarded to fund measurement of this project through 2010.
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Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County
for the Long Term Care Committee of the Health Planning Council, Ithaca, NY: $70,000 to support a two-year county-wide effort to improve health-care decision-making for frail elders. The project, known as Sharing Your Wishes has been extended for one year with an additional grant of $35,000. In May 2008 an additional $15,000 was awarded to fund measurement of this project through 2010.
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