EASTON, Md., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quality Health Foundation, the mission arm of Delmarva Foundation, recently announced local grants totaling $250,000.
A total of six awards among 112 applicants have been awarded by the Quality Health Foundation, which was formed in May 2003 out of funds from the Delmarva Foundation, an Easton-based not-for-profit quality improvement organization with more than 30 years’ experience in conducting and evaluating healthcare quality improvement initiatives. The mission of the Quality Health Foundation is to provide charitable grants to organizations that wish to undertake improvement projects with funding based on the project’s potential to impact access to and quality of healthcare to individuals and communities.
The six grantees include: Children’s National Medical Center - Washington, DC
The Children’s National Medical Center will receive a $50,000 grant to support the Healthy Generations Program. This program provides access to neighborhood healthcare and health education for minority teen parents and their children. Healthcare services provided include primary care, family planning and mental health services in order to prevent teen pregnancy. Quality Health Foundation funds will be used to fund a case manager who will keep the teen parents connected to health providers.
Center for a Healthy Maryland, Inc. - Baltimore, MD
The Center for a Healthy Maryland’s $25,000 grant will encourage and support physicians to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction. Funding will be used for educational and referral materials and to develop and provide trainings for physicians in order to educate on practice tips.
University of Maryland Medical System-Division of Community Psychiatry - Baltimore, MD
The $50,000 grant will allow this project to increase access to mental healthcare for inner-city, indigent children, adolescents and families who have serious mental health problems. To increase the access to mental healthcare, a Critical Time Intervention will be implemented and evaluated for effectiveness.
Suburban Hospital Healthcare System - Baltimore, MD
Suburban Hospital will receive a $25,000 grant. The funding will support the pilot test and evaluation of a health education community partnership project entitled “Latino Diabetes Education and Outreach.” The project will medically assist diabetic residents who are at higher than usual risk for disease complication due to decreased access and decreased knowledge of community medical care systems.
Salisbury Urban Ministries - Salisbury, MD
A $50,000 grant to Salisbury Urban Ministries will support the Health Outreach Program in the Church Street area of Salisbury. The funding supports their full-time Parish Nurse, who provides health education and outreach, including cardiovascular screening, immunization programs, referrals, and client follow-up. The program currently reaches more than 1,000 people per year.
Venice Family Clinic - Venice, CA
A grant in the amount of $50,000 is for a pilot home-based asthma program enhancement, to benefit low-income children living in or around the Mar Vista Public Housing Development. The funding will provide salary support and health education materials and supplies for 50 families of children with persistent asthma.
“We at the Quality Health Foundation are happy to be partnering with these outstanding organizations to directly improve the health of these underserved populations,” states Roger C. Merrill, MD, Chairman of the Quality Health Foundation Board of Directors.
About Quality Health Foundation
The Quality Health Foundation is the mission arm of the Delmarva Foundation, a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality in over 20 states. Formed in 2003, the mission of the Quality Health Foundation is to improve the health of individuals and communities. To achieve this goal, we provide modest charitable grants to organizations that wish to undertake improvement projects to impact access to and quality of healthcare and human services to individuals and communities. For more information, please visit the Quality Health Foundation on the web at http://www.qualityhealthfoundation.org.
Quality Health Foundation
CONTACT: Jennifer Donnelly, Quality Health Foundation Program Director,+1-410-822-0697, jdonnelly@dfmc.org
Web site: http://www.qualityhealthfoundation.org/
