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List of Awarded GrantsYour search returned 107 grants as shown below.
1: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Community Food Security in New Hampshire | | Sub Title: | Examining access to and affordability of nutritious food in New Hampshire's communities | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $36,095 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To examine food access and affordability at the community level in New Hampshire and the extent to which dietary-related illness is associated with reduced access to healthy foods by conducting a research study about the availability of quality, affordable food across the state. | | Detail: | To fund staff and related research costs. |
2: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | NH Basic Needs and a Livable Wage | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | July 18, 2005 | | Duration: | 17 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To provide high quality current data on NH's livable wage and the availability of livable wage jobs in NH to policymakers and non-profit organizations throughout the state by 1)researching and publishing a new study of NH's livable wage; 2)researching and publishing a new study of the availability of livable wage jobs in NH; and 3)disseminating the results of the two studies widely by hosting forums to present study results, conducting media campaign, and using advisory committee members. | | Detail: | Endowment for Health funds will be used to conduct research on NH's livable wage, to write the report and publicize the findings as well as to help pay for publishing the livable wage and availability of livable wage reports. |
3: New Hampshire Business Partners for Early Learning
| Project: | Keeping NH' s Child Caregiver's Healthy | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $7,250 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To define the scope of the health insurance crisis currently plaguing NH's child care industry by conducting in partnership with others a survey targeted to child care providers regarding health insurance coverage and disseminating this information to key stakeholders, business leaders, legislators, potential funders, and child care providers. | | Detail: | To assist in funding the analysis of the data and the creation and dissemination of the report. |
4: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
| Project: | North Country Palliative Care Collaboration | | Sub Title: | Improving systems for compassionate and coordinated end-of-life care for North Country residents | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Colebrook HSA, Lancaster HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To improve systems for providing compassionate end-of-life and palliative care for North Country residents by developing a collaborative model of care among the region's hospitals, hospice and home care providers, and academic medical center. | | Detail: | To support convening costs for a conference/seminar. |
5: Crotched Mountain Foundation
| Project: | Securing the Future of the Primary Care Medical Home | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $49,993 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To foster a viable, informed, and innovative primary health care system for all NH citizens by promoting the medical home as the model for quality primary care. | | Detail: | To fund salary and related costs for planning and convening stakeholders. |
6: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | Leadership and Management Development Curriculum | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $25,922 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop the next generation of Community Health Center and primary care leaders who will deliver comprehensive primary and preventive care services to medically-underserved and geographically, culturally and linguistically isolated persons by establishing the curriculum for a leadership development program. | | Detail: | To build the next generation of health center leaders by creating the curriculum for and piloting a sustainable Leadership and Management Development program. |
7: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | NH Health Professionals Loan Program | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $15,000 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals, including mid-level practitioners, physicians, and dentists in primary care, mental and oral health, for underserved areas of the state with a New Hampshire Health Professions Loan Program, by convening 2 meetings of stakeholders who will consider 1) a sustainable financial model and 2) a plan to develop and implement this Program. | | Detail: | Funds will be used to support project staff to assemble a core group and convene two meetings to work toward the concept of a loan fund for NH residents, to hire a consultant who will develop financial models essential for the success of this program and for logistical support for the two meetings. This Award does not indicate the Endowment' commitment to provide any further funding for the loan program. | | Outcomes: | This planning and convening project was very successful in bringing together stakeholders to talk about one aspect of addressing the primary care workforce shortage currently facing our state. It was particularly rewarding to see stakeholders back at the table who had helped work on this issue more than a decade ago (with good results then, and we hope again.) The project achieved sustainability by turning over its work to the Quality/ Workforce project team of the NH Citizens Health Initiative. Challenges in the project were working with Dartmouth Medical School to broaden its focus beyond physicians and in working to get stakeholders to address the many facets of this issue. |
8: UNH/Cooperative Extension
| Project: | Community Assets for People Mapping Collaborative | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $34,983 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop understanding of the benefits of a GIS-based system for mapping social and community assets by developing a prototype and convening stakeholders. | | Detail: | Funds will be used to develop a prototype of a GIS-based social asset data repository, as well as convene 50-70 New Hampshire stakeholders that use or maintain data on a range of mappable social and health-related assets. Since the mechanics of GIS systems are complex, the prototype will be demonstrated at a convening in order to give stakeholders a visual sense of a GIS system's capacities and enable them to provide feedback on how such a system might be used, modified, and implemented. |
9: New Hampshire Association of Counties' Nursing Home Administrators
| Project: | NH Nursing Home Town Meeting | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $12,500 | | Grant Date: | September 30, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | New Hampshire Nursing Home Town Meeting: Grant will help support a gathering to bring together representatives of County, State and Federal agencies who work in, operate and regulate nursing home facilities, as well as private for-profit and non-profit providers and resident representatives. The goal of the gathering is to engage in an organized public policy dialogue with the State's Congressional Delegation, and learn more about the increasingly complicated relationship between Federal, State, and County regulations and funding. Another goal is to build better communication and understanding of all the parties involved. |
10: Health Strategies
| Project: | Frameworks Training | | Sub Title: | Understanding NH's health care policy agendas and communicating the issues | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $6,856 | | Grant Date: | November 17, 2008 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Description: | To improve the communication and coordination of health policy discourse by providing an opportunity for communications training and collaborative dialogue. | | Detail: | To fund Frameworks training and meeting costs. |
11: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Healthcare Transparency to Support System Change | | Sub Title: | Examining healthcare costs and utilization from adverse drug events | | Grant Type: | Data Grant | | Amount: | $23,560 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care in New Hampshire by quantifying the cost and utilization of care caused by adverse drug events using a research methodology modified from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. | | Detail: | To support staff, contracted services and related costs for a study on adverse drug events in Maine and New Hampshire, and to provide investment into a data analysis platform for the commercial healthcare claims data sets of the NH Comprehensive Health Information System. |
12: NH Women's Policy Institute
| Project: | Identifying Barriers to Care for Women Aged 55 to 64 | | Sub Title: | Examining care provision and financial barriers to health for pre-retirement-age women | | Grant Type: | Data Grant | | Amount: | $19,500 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 10 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | The goal of the project is improve understanding of care provided to women in NH aged 55 to 64, the financial and other barriers they face in accessing care, and potential policy options to alleviate those barriers. | | Detail: | To fund staff time to analyze administrative data, conduct interviews with stakeholders, produce a report on the findings, and work with advocacy groups to disseminate findings. |
13: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | An Analysis of the NH Healthy Kids Program | | Grant Type: | Data Grant | | Amount: | $44,766 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To examine the effectiveness of the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Program (NHHK) by systematically analyzing the characteristics of the program, comparing it as appropriate with programs in other states. | | Detail: | To fund staff salaries and expenses for research and drafting policy brief. |
14: Avis Goodwin Community Health Center
| Project: | Cost Report analysis and assistance | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2008 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Dover HSA | | Description: | To help assure the financial stability of the CHC by implementing a tool to prepare and monitor Medicaid cost reporting. | | Detail: | To fund consulting services. |
15: New Hampshire Council of Churches
| Project: | Collaborative Interfaith Health Care Reform Meeting | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $500 | | Grant Date: | May 14, 2008 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Description: | To develop leadership in the faith community for advocacy on health system reform by supporting participation in a national 'summit' discussion of role of faith community in policy issues. | | Detail: | To support NH participation in a national inter-religious discussion on health system reform with funds for travel, registration and lodging. |
16: Androscoggin Valley Hospital
| Project: | AVH - Adapting to Change Proposal | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | March 17, 2008 | | Duration: | 7 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA | | Description: | To better meet the health needs of the AVH service area by better understanding care-seeking patterns in the community. | | Detail: | To support consulting services and related expenses. |
17: Center for Law and Social Policy
| Project: | Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To call national attention by foundations in all states to the issue of poverty during the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond by promoting a national debate. | | Detail: | To fund a portion of salary, consultant and other expenses. |
18: Mid-State Health Center
| Project: | Uninsured Primary Care | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $3,000 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Plymouth HSA | | Description: | To increase funding sources to care for uninsured people in eastern Grafton County by a completing a request for newly available State funds. | | Detail: | To fund technical assistance. |
19: Community Catalyst, Inc.
| Project: | New England Alliance for Children's Health: SCHIP & Medicaid Survey Project | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | November 27, 2006 | | Duration: | 5 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assist in the development of expanded leadership and voices in New England in order to ensure the enhancement and sustainability of children's health coverage by obtaining and using public opinion on children's health coverage. | | Detail: | To fund New Hampshire participation in regional survey on public opinion on children's health coverage, including SCHIP and Medicaid. | | Outcomes: | This very modest Discretionary grant was used to leverage other New England funders to fund a regional poll and messaging on SCHIP and Medicaid for children, prior to the reauthorization of the program. The effort succeeded admirably (to a veto –proof majority on a pretty-good bill at this stage in the process. In addition to the funds for the survey, we provided assistance in connecting with other funders (successfully) in the region and connecting with local advocates and spokespeople (also very effectively. HNHfoundation provided the assistance of Karno in assisting with the messaging and media in the state. EH was able to help orchestrate the multiple messages of this grant, the budget increases for NHHK, and the EH funded Carsey studies on NHHK for maximum message lift.
Very successful use of $5,000! |
20: Fellowship Housing Opportunities, Inc.
| Project: | Pleasant Street Project | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Concord HSA | | Description: | To provide expansion of supported services for low-income people with mental illness attached to residential services. | | Detail: | To provide funding for equipment, supplies and related expenses for the Pleasant Street Project Service Center, which will offer educational, vocational, recreational, and social activities. |
21: Coos County Family Health Services
| Project: | Coding Training | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $8,800 | | Grant Date: | October 31, 2005 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA | | Description: | To improve revenues and compliance, and thus the financial sustainability of the CHC, by providing further training to providers on correct coding of services. | | Detail: | To support further training and consultant services for provider training on coding and record review. | | Outcomes: | This discretionary TA grant was highly successful in helping CCFHS improve doing of providers in the two merged practices to help assure their financial sustainability. The record of the grant documents greatly improved accuracy of coding and improved billing. This project was followed by a further TA Grant that included more work on coding, billing and co-payment collections among other elements. All of these are helping to assure the financial health of a key safety net provider after a risky merger with the only other practice in the region. The project met the EH strategy of 'Enhancing Knowledge' in a key theme goal area. |
22: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
| Project: | QCP & State Planning Meetings | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $2,138 | | Grant Date: | February 28, 2005 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the outcomes in the development of cost effective alternatives to nursing home care for NH's low income elders by reducing the economic barriers for direct care staff to provide technical assistance. | | Detail: | To fund the related expenses of direct care staff to participate in planning meetings for HomeCare Works as well as data collection activities. |
23: Mid-State Health Center
| Project: | Emergency Operational Funding | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | January 24, 2008 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Plymouth HSA | | Description: | To provide emergency support for essential community provider. | | Detail: | To provide support during a cash shortfall for the CHC. |
24: Indian Stream Health Center
| Project: | Emergency Funding in Support of Indian Stream Health Center, Colebrook NH | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | November 27, 2007 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Colebrook HSA, Lancaster HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To assure the availability of primary care services n northern Coos County by developing a long-term sustainability plan for the Indian Stream Health Center. | | Detail: | To provide partial support of ISHC's anticipated shortfall in revenues vs. expenditures between October 1 and December 31, 2007. |
25: Health First Family Care Center, Inc.
| Project: | Emergency Grant Funding | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $31,000 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA | | Description: | To provide financial stability for the Community Health Center and addressing shortfalls in funding. | | Detail: | To fund unanticipated expenses. |
26: Child Health Services
| Project: | Teen Health Clinic | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $25,000 | | Grant Date: | August 07, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To maintain essential health services to a vulnerable population by providing support during a funding transition. | | Detail: | The funds will be used to cover staff salaries and benefits during a period of realignment of staff, funding and operations. |
27: Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc
| Project: | Emergency Grant | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | February 13, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Littleton HSA | | Description: | To assure the availability and accessibility of health services to the vulnerable and underserved residents of the service area of Ammonoosuc Community Health Center by sustaining the financial viability of this organization. | | Detail: | To fund payroll and account receivables as needed. |
28: Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc
| Project: | Emergency Funds II | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | March 26, 2004 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Littleton HSA | | Detail: | To assure the availability and accessibility of health care services to the vulnerable and underserved residents of the geographic service area of the Ammonoosuc CHC by sustaining the operations of the Ammonoosuc CHC in the event that supplemental State of NH Medicaid funds are not received. |
29: Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc
| Project: | Emergency Funds | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $100,000 | | Grant Date: | December 19, 2003 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | Littleton HSA | | Detail: | To assure the availability and accessibility of health care services to the vulnerable and underserved residents of the geographic service area of the Ammonoosuc CHC by sustaining the operations of the Ammonoosuc CHC in the event that supplemental State of NH Medicaid funds are not received. |
30: Coos County Family Health Services
| Project: | Merger of Coos County Family Health Services with Physician Practices of Androscoggin Valley Hospital | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $83,700 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA | | Description: | To manage effectively all aspects of merging Androscoggin Valley Hospital /Mountain Health Services (AVH/MHS) physician practices located in Berlin and Gorham into an expanded Coos County Family Health Service with FQHC status for all patients. | | Detail: | To fund a Project Director and support staff to effectively manage the process of merging the physician practices of AVH/Mountain Health Services into Coos County Family Health Services by directing and supporting the activities, the merger Steering Committee and sub-committees comprised of clinical, finance, human resources and operations. |
31: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Creating an Online Health Town Square for New Hampshire | | Sub Title: | An online forum to educate policy makers and the public about health care reform efforts in New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $18,952 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assist in efforts to create a high-quality cost-effective health system in New Hemispheric by conducting planning and feasibility of a dynamic and comprehensive web-based catalog of health systems improvement efforts and a vehicle for public dialogue. | | Detail: | To provide support for staffing, consultants and related expenses. |
32: Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital
| Project: | Coos County Hospital Collaborative
| | Sub Title: | Sustaining the region's health care system through an exploration of a multi-provider partnership | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $70,000 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 20 months | | Area(s): | Colebrook HSA | | Description: | To help assure the sustainability of the Coos County health care system by identifying how the three Coos County hospitals can most effectively collaborate to provide reasonable access to health care for Coos County residents, quality that meets appropriate benchmarks, and costs that are sustainable by businesses and individuals in the economically challenged county. | | Detail: | To support consulting and related costs |
33: Families First of the Greater Seacoast
| Project: | Strategic Business Planning | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $6,025 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 8 months | | Area(s): | Portsmouth HSA, Exeter HSA | | Description: | To assure a sustainable programs and finances for Families First by developing a Strategic Business Plan that gives a compelling, realistic and sustainable vision for the future. | | Detail: | To provide partial funding for consultant costs for strategic planning process. |
34: Prescription Policy Choices
| Project: | Academic Detailing Planning Initiative | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $24,880 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop a collaborative network of health care stakeholders and policy-change advocates by bringing together stakeholders to build a model framework and detailed plan to implement a regional academic detailing training and service provision system for New Hampshire and the rest of northern New England. | | Detail: | To fund salaries, technical assistance, and related costs |
35: Avis Goodwin Community Health Center
| Project: | StraffordCare | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $24,618 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Dover HSA, Rochester HSA | | Description: | To study the feasibility of a 'volunteer' model to improve access to specialty care and improve continuity to primary care for the uninsured residents of Strafford County by undertaking a community planning process and developing provider 'champions.' | | Detail: | To fund staff to recruit champions, convene health care providers and design a model of care. |
36: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Systems Dynamics Simulation for Healthcare Modeling | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $29,551 | | Grant Date: | January 11, 2007 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop systems dynamics based models of healthcare to permit use of simulation tools in healthcare policy making. | | Detail: | Systems dynamics models will be developed using domain expert and engineering expertise to explore barriers to cost effective healthcare. |
37: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | Leadership Development | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $35,100 | | Grant Date: | December 11, 2006 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop the next generation of Community Health Center and primary care leaders by creating a business and funding plan that increases access to needed affordable leadership and professional development education programs and resources. | | Detail: | To fund the development of a business plan and funding plan for a sustainable Leadership Development program that will build the next generation of health center leaders. |
38: Families First of the Greater Seacoast
| Project: | Space Planning | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $10,500 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | Portsmouth HSA | | Description: | To hire an architect to create a buildable design that will achieve the following: add two dental operatories; an add space for mental health or other one-on-one counseling; increase privacy for patients and staff; support increased efficiency and integration of services; and redesign the lobby to be more welcoming and better utilized space.
| | Detail: | Proposed grant funds will be used to pay JSA Architects to develop a buildable design for reconfiguration of Families First space, and to pay a Families First staff member to serve as Project Coordinator to take the lead on working with the architect to ensure that Families First's needs are reflected in the design plan. |
39: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | The NH Health Care Interconnectivity Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $24,247 | | Grant Date: | March 20, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop health information exchange capacity in the state by conducting assessment, planning and stakeholder convening. | | Detail: | To support the assessment of New Hampshire health information infrastructure and connectivity by eHealth Initiatives and develop a 'roadmap' to an effective health information exchange. |
40: City of Manchester Department of Health
| Project: | Manchester Sustainability Access Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To support a community planning process that will identify solutions to reduce fragmentation and better integrate health care services and identfy sustainable solutions for improved access to health care services. | | Detail: | To fund technical assistance and consulting services |
41: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Planning for NH's Health Care Future
| | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.
| | Detail: | For staff, consultants, travel and related expenses. |
42: New Hampshire AFL-CIO EAP Services
| Project: | NH AFL-CIO EAP Services, Inc. | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $19,876 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To preserve health insurance coverage for construction workers and to inform public policy deliberations by convening labor, management and other stakeholders in order to plan and undertake a comprehensive analysis of construction bidding and procurement policies and practices and the link between those practices and workers' access to health insurance and health care. | | Detail: | To support lead contract staff, consultants, and related expenses for convening key stakeholders, conducting focus groups and discussion sessions; gathering data and analyzing existing research and relevant case studies to formulate a comprehensive plan for further research and public policy input. | | Outcomes: | The non-profit arm of the NH AFL-CIO conducted a planning grant to understand the health insurance coverage issues for construction workers and contractors in New Hampshire. The process included convening construction workers and groups of contractors who employed union workers and those who did not. Accompanying research sought information on the coverage offered by the joint labor management trust funds, overall information on health insurance in NH and the nation, and a scan of procurement policies from around the nation that address similar issues. The convening on union and non-union contractors and labor unions was both an activity and a product of the project. Another element, monitoring the progress of a NH House study committee on related legislation, was limited because the committee did not have this first meeting during the grant period. The final output of the project was a report that outlined the findings, summarized the situation in the field and policy options in place in other communities.
The project was challenged early on by the departure of its key researcher for a full time work commitment; another qualified researched needed to identified and oriented to the project. Hoped-for funding from the Harvard School of Public Health did not materialize. The issues of the departure of the SEIU from the AFL-CIO did not materially affect the project, but they certainly did affect many of the players in terms of their employment and other concerns. In addition, the long delay of the first meeting of the House Study Committee made some of the activities difficult to achieve. The availability of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services to assist with the contractor/union discussion was an unexpected additional benefit to the project. The FMCS brought its Technology Assisted Group Solutions process, which included computer-mediated discussion and surveying.
Key learning for the Endowment included: working in an area of health coverage (procurement policy and union health insurance trust funds) that had not featured heavily in our work on this issue, experience with the computer mediated convening process, beginning work an areas of public policy i.e., procurement and labor) that were not at the forefront of NH’s policy discussions. Certainly, the project did enhance our own knowledge, and with the release of the report will enhance the knowledge in the state of the impact of health insurance coverage on labor and the construction field. The work has meshed well with our work on social cultural barriers to access on the issue of misclassification of workers for health, workers’ compensation, unemployment, and other benefits. |
43: Gateways Community Services
| Project: | Southern NH Time Exchange | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | March 21, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To improve the overall health of children, adults and families enrolled in Area Agency of Greater Nashua, Inc programs by piloting Southern NH Time Exchange which will create a safe social network where reciprocal volunteerism meets everyday needs in a cost effective way. | | Detail: | To fund a challenge grant especially to local funders to cover the expenses of the staff and development materials. | | Outcomes: | This final report concludes the EH funded portion of the project. In many ways, the project has been successful, with an ongoing Time Exchange created that creates bonds within their community (note I did not say across the community) and added to the availability or support and help, rides, etc.
However, many of the issues we had concerns about came to pass:
VISTA staffing can have bumps as staffers come and go, gaps occur and skill sets differ.
It does not appear that AA was able to reach out beyond its core constituency, which was a major concern during the review.
Keeping track is hardier than it looks, including technology and database problems |
44: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Using Clinical Process Cost Analysis to Eliminate Waste in Health Care | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $24,651 | | Grant Date: | December 13, 2004 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To fund the planning phase of an applied research project to generate resources for NH community hospitals by demonstating the use of clinical process cost analysis as a tool to eliminate waste. | | Detail: | To fund staff and consultants and supportive costs to develop the CPCA model re: community acquired pneumonia and to recruit participating hospitals. |
45: White Mountain Community Health Center
| Project: | Carroll County Planning Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $33,887 | | Grant Date: | March 31, 2004 | | Duration: | 8 months | | Area(s): | Conway HSA, Wolfeboro HSA | | Description: | To provide geographic access to the residents of Carroll County to affordable healthcare by developing a federally qualified community health center (FQHC) . | | Detail: | To fund a consultant to facilitate the planning work of the steering committee, a facilitator to aid in the deliberations of the planning committee and secretarial support for the director of WMCHC. |
46: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
| Project: | Health Insurance Study for NH's Self-Employed | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | March 24, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | MicroCredit-NH (a program of the NH Community Loan fund) will take the lead in closely examining the costs and barriers to health insurance among New Hampshire's self-employed. | | Detail: | To fund the development and implementation of a plan to study the barriers especially costs to health insurance for NH's self-employed especially those who are employed in micro-businesses by assessing the current self-insurance market for the self-employed, evaluating these options, and developing a working concept of short and long term insurance options for this population. |
47: West Central Behavioral Health
| Project: | Revolving Loan Fund for Mental Health | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $7,645 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 5 months | | Area(s): | Claremont HSA, Lebanon HSA, Plymouth HSA | | Description: | To maintain access for low income adults to community mental health services by making these services financially viable by developing a loan fund, enhancing financial case management, and improve client financial functioning.
| | Detail: | To fund the staff and consultant to complete the planning activities. |
48: NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows Program
| Project: | NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows Program | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Lebanon HSA, Manchester HSA, Manchester, Dover HSA, Concord HSA | | Description: | To carry out service projects while receiving leadership training in public service in local NH communities with underserved populations), to include students from UNH and the Franklin Pierce Law School in projects related to EFH themes and to fund a one year fellowship at each school. | | Detail: | To fund the staff to complete the expansion of the NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows Program, (a stipend fellowship program for medical and legal students to carry out service projects while receiving leadership training in public service in local NH communities with underserved populations), to include students from UNH and the Franklin Pierce Law School in projects related to EFH themes and to fund a one year fellowship at each school. |
49: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | Building an Effective Health Advocacy Network to Advance Public Policy in New Hampshire
| | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $125,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To help improve access to quality, affordable health care by developing a collaborative network of organizations, stakeholder groups and individuals to understand and advance public policy change on key health policy issues facing New Hampshire.
| | Detail: | To fund salaries, consultants, leadership stipends, and related expenses. |
50: Community Catalyst, Inc.
| Project: | New England Alliance for Children's Health | | Sub Title: | Protecting and expanding access to children's health care in New Hampshire and across New England | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $50,000 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To expand children's healthcare access and coverage in NH, the region and on the national level by working collaboratively with a wide-range of organizations on SCHIP reauthorization and implementation, engaging the business community in children's healthcare advocacy efforts, providing specific support to NH stakeholders to increase and protect children's healthcare coverage. | | Detail: | To fund staff, consulting services and related expenses for state work, business community outreach, and programmatic and organizational support including travel and a regional Summit. |
51: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | Health Care Expansion Coalition | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | January 22, 2007 | | Duration: | 7 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve access to health insurance for NH's young adults by expanding age eligibility to existing public and private health insurance products. | | Detail: | To support the development and maintenance of a coalition and district-based meetings. |
52: Franklin Pierce Law Center
| Project: | Crossing the Public Policy Divide | | Sub Title: | Enhancing the use of research, data and analysis to effect health-related public policy change | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $25,000 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve NH health stakeholders' capacity to navigate the public policy divide - the gap that exists between health-related data, research, analysis, and recommendations on the one hand, and the successful implementation of sensible public policies on the other - by providing practical and expert technical assistance. | | Detail: | To fund staff and other expenses. |
53: Franklin Pierce Law Center
| Project: | Crossing the Public Policy Divide | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $25,000 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve NH health stakeholders' capacity to navigate the public policy divide - the gap that exists between health-related data, research, analysis, and recommendations on the one hand, and the successful implementation of sensible public policies on the other - by providing practical and expert technical assistance. | | Detail: | To provide technical assistance to community partners to support the development and implementation of quality health related public policy. |
54: Franklin Pierce Law Center
| Project: | Crossing the Public Policy Divide | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $55,000 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 18 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the public policy capacity of the Endowment for Health and of Medicaid stakeholders in NH to navigate NH's public policy divide- the gap between data, research, analysis and recommendations on one hand and the successful implementation of sensible public policy on the other hand by providing practical and expert technical assistance. | | Detail: | To fund staff and supporting expenses to provide public policy technical assistance including the monitoring and tracking of 2006 NH health related public policy for EH staff, public policy consultation to EH in PY 2006 as needed and provide public policy consultation to Medicaid stakeholders in 2006 and 2007. |
55: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | Divorce-Health Access Project | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $76,622 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To reduce economic barriers to accessing health for the people in New Hampshire by expanding health insurance protections to divorcing spouses and their families through research, capacity building; and promoting positive policy. | | Detail: | To support New Hampshire-based staff and Public Policy Institute lead staff time and related costs associated with communicating about the new law and working with stakeholders and the family law bar to implement the law and building capacity. |
56: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | Divorce-Health Access Project | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $72,520 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To reduce economic barriers to accessing health for the people in New Hampshire by expanding health insurance protections to divorcing spouses and their families through research, capacity building; and promoting positive policy. | | Detail: | To support New Hampshire-based and Institute lead staff time and related costs associated with building capacity for the project. |
57: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | Divorce-Health Access Project | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $4,000 | | Grant Date: | December 21, 2005 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase the availability of health insurance for spouses after divorce by developing awareness of policy options through convening of policy leaders, stakeholders and funders. | | Detail: | To support staff and related costs associated with outreach, convening, and follow-up of the January 20, 2006 meeting. |
58: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Sustaining NH's Health System - IV | | Sub Title: | Supporting the NH Citizens Health Initiative in its efforts to improve the 'systems' that finance and provide health care in New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.
| | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities and related costs associated with project implementation. |
59: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Sustaining NH's Health System- III
| | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.
| | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities and related costs associated with project implementation. |
60: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Sustaining NH's Health System- II | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $74,973 | | Grant Date: | December 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To continue to create a healthy and sustainable health system for New Hampshire by engaging citizens, policymakers, providers, and other stakeholders in developing policies and systems that support New Hampshire's residents in their efforts to maintain good health and prevent illness and injury and maintain access to a healthcare system that provides high-quality, cost-effective care. | | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities and related costs associated with project implementation. |
61: Endowment for Health
| Project: | Sustaining NH's Health System | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 7 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To create a healthy and sustainable health system for New Hampshire by engaging citizens, policymakers, providers, and other stakeholders in developing policies and systems that support New Hampshire's residents in their efforts to maintain good health and prevent illness and injury and maintain access to a healthcare system that provides high-quality, cost-effective care. | | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities and related costs associated with project implementation. |
62: New Hampshire AFL-CIO EAP Services
| Project: | The Impact of Construction Procurement Decisions on Worker's Access to Health Care | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $84,995 | | Grant Date: | December 11, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To understand how bidding and procurement practices for construction projects impact health insurance status and health care access for construction workers by conducting economic and policy research and communicating findings and policy options to stakeholders, policy makers, and the public. | | Detail: | To support expenses for consultants, research, communications and convening costs. |
63: New Hampshire AFL-CIO EAP Services
| Project: | Public Works Procurement Policies and Health Care Access | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $55,337 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To understand how bidding and procurement practices for construction projects impact health insurance status and health care access for construction workers by conducting economic and policy research and communicating findings and policy options to stakeholders, policy makers, and the public. | | Detail: | To support expenses for consultants, research, communications and convening costs. |
64: HNHFoundation
| Project: | Importance of Health Insurance Coverage for Children | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | September 20, 2004 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To promote the importance of health insurance coverage for New Hampshire children. | | Detail: | To fund the development of a campaign logo and tag line. |
65: Franklin Pierce Law Center
| Project: | Bridging NH's Public Policy Gap | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $40,000 | | Grant Date: | September 20, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To address the gap between research and public policy re: cost, coverage and quality of health care in NH by creating a public policy roadmap for the Endowment's Citizen's Roundtable, by serving as a public policy guide for the Endowment's Pillar's Project and by enhancing the knowledge of NH key health stakeholders by providing onging monitoring and reporting on relevant health and public policy developments. | | Detail: | To fund staff and other project related costs at the Institue of Health Law and Ethics |
66: FrameWorks Institute
| Project: | Health Care Communications | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | September 20, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Detail: | To provide communications support for the Pillars Project. |
67: Georgetown University
| Project: | Medicaid Waiver Analysis Issue Brief | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $19,150 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To support a quality NH Medicaid program by providing knowledge on the short and long term effects of the proposed Medicaid 'restructuring'. | | Detail: | To fund the analysis of changes in the NH provider tax that are giving rise to the loss of Medicaid matching funds. |
68: Pillars Project
| Project: | Citizens Round Table | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | April 01, 2004 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve health care access by developing public consensus on health issues in NH and convening a Citizens Roundtable of community, business, and health care leaders. | | Detail: | To fund the expenses of convening, facilitating and implementing the Pillars Project Health Cost and Coverage Initiative and the Citizens Roundtable. |
69: New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
| Project: | Citizens for Health Access | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Concord HSA, Conway HSA, Exeter HSA,.Manchester HSA | | Description: | To build support for health care policy reform to improve access to quality, affordable health care for NH residents by mobilizing citizen activists from key constituencies to effectively engage in public debates; by enhancing the capacities of allied member organizations in health care advocacy; by facilitating direct dialogue between citizens and policy-makers; by developing strong alliances between statewide and local organizations and community leaders concerned about health care reform; by fostering the development of a sustainable movement for health care reform | | Detail: | To continue to help fund staff, training, consultants, and other project expenses to support advocacy agenda. |
70: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
| Project: | Understanding NH's Healthcare System: Structure and Finance | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $55,775 | | Grant Date: | March 17, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To enhance public understanding and public policy regarding health care access and finance by providing information and analysis to stakeholders in health care and health policy, including the Citizens Health Initiative and other groups working on health
| | Detail: | To support staff time and related expenses for policy and data analysis. |
71: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
| Project: | Understanding NH's Healthcare System: Structure and Finance | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $71,500 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To enhance public understanding and public policy regarding health care access and finance by providing information and analysis to stakeholders in health care and health policy, including the Citizens Health Initiative and its working groups. | | Detail: | To support staff time and related expenses for policy and data analysis. |
72: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
| Project: | Understanding NH's Healthcare System: Structure and Finance | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $49,500 | | Grant Date: | December 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To enhance public understanding and public policy regarding health care access and finance by providing information and analysis to stakeholders in health care and health policy, including the Citizens Health Initiative and its working groups. | | Detail: | To support professional staff time and associated costs. |
73: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
| Project: | Supporting Workforce Health Insurance in New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $126,775 | | Grant Date: | April 18, 2005 | | Duration: | 10 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To provide state policy-makers, the general public and health system stakeholders with data and information on healthcare finance and coverage by analyzing current status and trends in the health finance system and the impact on the cost and quality of healthcare and on access of residents to that care through health insurance and public programs. | | Detail: | To support policy research staff, consultants, and research assistants and associated costs. |
74: New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
| Project: | Citizens for Health Access | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $112,500 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To engage the citizens of New Hampshire in public policy debate around the issues of access to health care. NHCA will build an active network of citizen leaders who can speak to the issues of health care access in NH. By recruiting and training citizens to engage in local initiatives to address existing barriers to access. NHCA will develop capacity for citizens to engage in statewide policy debate, making elected leaders more accountable to constituents. | | Detail: | To support the grassroots organizing, training and leadership development portion of the project, especially as related to issues of the uninsured, the major economic barrier to access in NH and nationally. This includes intensive one-to-one organizing in the targeted geographic areas, citizen advocate training and related issues and skills-building activities and community meetings with policy makers. It also includes NHCA's collaboration with statewide and locally based organizations engaged in training, leadership development and provision of health services to low/no income populations. |
75: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
| Project: | Covering the Uninsured in New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $208,436 | | Grant Date: | August 12, 2002 | | Duration: | 18 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | Grant funds will be used to support the first phase of a multi-year project to identify and support public policy proposals that will reduce the percentage of NH's population that lacks health insurance as outlined in the July 12, 2002 Proposal. The project will build on the work already completed by the Adult Coverage Subcommittee created by legislation in 1999 and by the NH Department of Health and Human Services. The first phase of the project will collect and analyze information necessary to develop policy alternatives. | | Detail: | To complete the first phase of a multi-year project to identify and support public policy proposals that will reduce the percentage of New Hampshire's population that lacks health insurance. The project will build on the work already completed by the Adult Coverage Subcommittee created by legislation in 1999 and by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. The first phase of the project will catalogue how other states have addressed this issue, review all pertinent federal inititives before the United States Congress, and quantify various aspects of health care financing in New Hampshire with particular attention being paid to the issue of cost shifting among various funding enitities. |
76: FrameWorks Institute
| Project: | Communications Plan for the Endowment's Uninsured Project | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $120,000 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | The Endowment for Health initiated the FrameWorks Institute to develop a communications plan for the Endowment's Uninsured Project. The objective of the proposal is to determine the culture of our constituency and its composition. We must understand to whom do we wish to communicate and how should these messages be delivered, emphasizing certain issues and avoiding others. We want to prevent public backlash and, at the same time, create support for change in New Hampshire. There are three components of this proposal including:
Solicitation, Survey Research and creating a communication strategy. | | Detail: | To develop a communications plan for the Endowment for Healths Uninsured Project. The objective of the proposal is to determine the culture of New Hampshire's constituency and its composition regarding uninsurance in New Hampshire. There are three components of this proposal: solicitation, survey research and creation of a communication strategy |
77: UNH-Citizens Health Initiative
| Project: | Sustaining NH's Health System - V | | Sub Title: | Improving the systems that finance and provide New Hampshire's health care | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $75,000 | | Grant Date: | April 20, 2009 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Description: | To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan. | | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities and related costs associated with project implementation. |
78: The Public Policy Institute
| Project: | New Hampshire Voices for Health | | Sub Title: | Building an effective health advocacy network to advance public policy in New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $159,880 | | Grant Date: | December 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Description: | To help improve access to quality, affordable health care by further developing this advocacy coalition on health care and coverage, through expansion of the Leadership Team, growing the network, identifying and implementing state- and federal- health care policy initiatives, increasing the state's organizational advocacy capacity; and hiring a core staff person whose sole function is the development of NH Voices for Health. | | Detail: | To fund salaries, consultants, leadership stipends, and related expenses. |
79: Center for Law and Social Policy
| Project: | Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | | Sub Title: | Linking the issues of economic equity to health | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $15,000 | | Grant Date: | March 16, 2009 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To build the national will to address the full range of poverty issues and to identify solutions that foster opportunity. | | Detail: | To fund staff and contractual expenses. |
80: University of Massachusetts Medical School
| Project: | Improving Healthcare Safety Net Financing | | Sub Title: | Analysis of state and federal health care mechanisms | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | January 12, 2009 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Description: | To improve the structure, financing and allocation of existing public resources for health care and services by analyzing leverage of state and federal funds. | | Detail: | To fund salary, indirect costs, travel and consulting costs of advisors and analysts working on the project. |
81: Mid-State Health Center
| Project: | Long Range Planning | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $8,000 | | Grant Date: | April 10, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Plymouth HSA | | Description: | To assure long-range financial stability of the organization by procuring the services of a technical assistance provider. | | Detail: | To fund consultant and technical assistance. |
82: Indian Stream Health Center
| Project: | Development of a Long Term Sustainability Plan to Assure the continued delivery of primary care in Northern Coos County | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $12,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Colebrook HSA, Lancaster HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To assure the availability of primary care services n northern Coos County by developing a long-term sustainability plan for the Indian Stream Health | | Detail: | To fund consulting services and related expenses. |
83: Health First Family Care Center, Inc.
| Project: | Long Range Planning | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $8,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA | | Description: | To assure long-range financial stability of the organization by procuring the services of a technical assistance provider. | | Detail: | To fund consultant and technical assistance. |
84: Indian Stream Health Center
| Project: | Electronic Medical Record Implementation Technical Assistance | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $8,000 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | Rochester HSA, Littleton HSA, Lancaster HSA, Haverhill HSA, Conway HSA, Colebrook HSA, Berlin HSA | | Description: | To assure benefits of adopting electronic health records by providing additional training to providers and other users by obtaining comprehensive technical assistance consulting services. | | Detail: | To fund continued technical assistance training on the new electronic medical record system. |
85: Avis Goodwin Community Health Center
| Project: | Technical Assistance on Space Planning | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $7,500 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | Dover HSA, Rochester HSA | | Description: | Determine the space needed for existing and future programs in one consolidated, centrally located building. | | Detail: | Technical Assistance funds will be used in the work with the architect on patient flow, square footage per program, and design of building. |
86: Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc
| Project: | Technical Assistance | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $21,500 | | Grant Date: | May 01, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Lancaster HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To assure the sustainability of AFHS programs and services by developing an organizational and business plan that will assure quality services on a balanced budget. | | Detail: | To support expert consulting to develop a sustainable business and organizational model for the CHC. |
87: Coos County Family Health Services
| Project: | Operational Assessment | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $17,572 | | Grant Date: | May 25, 2006 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA | | Description: | To identify areas for improved effectiveness and efficiency of operations to assure financial sustainability. | | Detail: | To provide partial support for consulting costs. | | Outcomes: | This grant was used for consulting and technical assistance to review a number of areas where the CCFHS could achieve greater efficiencies in operations or improve the financial relationship for functions shared with its community hospital. Falling under the EH strategy of 'enhancing knowledge,' the project was successful in developing a strategy for incentive based compensation, realigning the employment of the hospitalist to the AVH, improving coding, billing and co-payment collections, The project also established a formula for the hospital’s community benefit contribution, but that is not within the purview of the CCFHS Board and staff to implement; discussions with the hospital continue. Learning from the Project will be shared with other CHCs in appropriate venues. We consider this to be a very successful use of Technical Assistance grant funds to assure the financial sustainability of a key safety-net provider in one of our most-underserved and vulnerable regions. |
88: North Country Health Consortium
| Project: | North Country Cares III | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $164,914 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Lancaster HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To improve access to health care in the North Country Health Consortium service area through the design and implementation a care coordination model that is accessible through a single point of entry, covers the continuum of health care, and integrates ancillary and social services. | | Detail: | To continue to fund the implementation of North Country Cares in three North Country communities. |
89: North Country Health Consortium
| Project: | North Country Cares II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $116,364 | | Grant Date: | July 01, 2002 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Colebrook HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue the implementation of the project at the pilot site of Berlin and continue planning and implementation in Littleton, Haverhill, Lancaster and Colebrook HSA's. | | Detail: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue the implementation of the project at the pilot site of Berlin and continue planning and implementation in Littleton, Haverhill, Lancaster and Colebrook HSA's. |
90: North Country Health Consortium
| Project: | North Country Cares I | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $136,458 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Colebrook HSA, Berlin HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To collaboratively design and implement a pilot care coordination model that covers the entire continuum of health care including the integration of ancillary and social services.
| | Detail: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue the implementation of the project at the pilot site of Berlin and continue planning and implementation in Littleton, Haverhill, Lancaster and Colebrook HSA |
91: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | Creating Systemic Change to Strengthen and Sustain NH's Community Health Centers | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $200,000 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | Creating Systemic Changes to Strengthen and Sustain NH's Community Health Centers: Grant will help initiate the creation of more effective funding systems for the eight Community Health Centers in New Hampshire. The project will create model systems of financial sustainability to ensure the delivery of primary and preventive care to the uninsured and underinsured New Hampshire residents. |
92: Crotched Mountain Foundation
| Project: | Securing the Future of the Primary Care Medical Home | | Sub Title: | Improving primary care access and building practice capacity for coordinated care | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $189,532 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the quality, effectiveness and availability of primary care for all New Hampshire residents by promoting primary care as a 'medical home' that provides patient-centered primary care and coordinates all other care. | | Detail: | To support staffing, consultants, and related expenses to implement the medical home model in a selection of diverse NH practices. |
93: Health First Family Care Center, Inc.
| Project: | Health First Family Care Center, Second Site, Laconia, NH | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Laconia | | Description: | To increase access to primary health care services to all individuals in the Laconia area, regardless of their ability to pay, race, ethnicity, or cultural diversity, by opening a new site of the Health First Family Care Center. | | Detail: | To provide the second year of funds to assist in the startup of the Laconia site of Health First to include staff time, consulting, training, marketing and related expenses. |
94: Health First Family Care Center, Inc.
| Project: | Health First Family Care Center, Second Site, Laconia, NH | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $85,000 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Laconia HSA | | Description: | To increase access to primary health care services to all individuals in the Laconia area, regardless of their ability to pay, race, ethnicity, or cultural diversity, by opening a new site of the Health First Family Care Center. | | Detail: | To provide funds to assist in the startup of the Laconia site of Health First to include staff time, consulting, training, marketing and related expenses. |
95: Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
| Project: | Manchester Sustainable Access Project (MSAP) | | Sub Title: | An integrated community health care network for the City of Manchester | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $239,947 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To improve access to comprehensive health services for Manchester's most vulnerable residents by establishing a community health care network that will provide integrated oral health, mental health and primary care services. | | Detail: | To provide support for staff and related expenses for the integrated primary care clinic and expenses for expanded oral health capacity |
96: Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
| Project: | Manchester Sustainability Access Project | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $520,236 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 15 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To establish a community integrated health care network that will increase the availability of coordinated and cost effective primary care to the local population with a specific focus on serving Manchester's most vulnerable.
| | Detail: | To support the formalization and further development of a community health system strategic planning board (Strategic Planning Board), the development of additional primary care health resources for vulnerable populations, including integrated oral health, mental health and primary care services for vulnerable residents, and the technical assistance and support needs of the Manchester Community Health Center's physical move and expansion. |
97: North Country Health Consortium
| Project: | North Country Cares I | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $58,139 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Colebrook HSA, Haverhill HSA, Littleton HSA | | Description: | To improve the health status of the underserved populations in the North County by community care coordination. | | Detail: | To fund the operational costs of current project for three months pending receipt of funding by other funders and to continue to implement sustainability activities. |
98: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | To Improve the NH Community Health Centers' Financial Sustainability | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $130,617 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve New Hampshire CHCs' financial sustainability by strategic communication to stakeholders and technical assistance to the CHCs. | | Detail: | To support staff time, consulting, communcations and training, and related expenses to develop primary care contracted services, organizational incentive compensation strategies and continue strategic communications development for CHCs. |
99: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | To Improve the NH Community Health Centers' Financial Sustainability | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $151,875 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve NH CHC's financial sustainability by expanding the Advisory Committee; building business case that demonstrates CHC's value (cost, quality, access) and; communicating value of CHC's to public/private sectors to increase revenue. | | Detail: | To fund staff and other project-related costs to build and communicate a business case that demonstrates community health centers' value in NH and to help fund other activities to improve the financial sustainability of NH's CHCs. |
100: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Smart Care | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $41,076 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Concord HSA, Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA, Rochester HSA, Wolfeboro HSA | | Description: | To implement a model demonstration program in NH to enable elderly and chronically ill individuals, specifically in rural areas of NH, to obtain access to quality consumer-directed personal care services in their homes and in lieu of nursing home placement by providing fiscal intermediary and support services to the elderly and chronically ill as they hire, train and supervise their personal care workers. | | Detail: | To help supplement the Medicaid reimbursement to pay for the staff and related expenses for the coordination, implementation, and management of the Smart Care Program during early implementation until the breakeven point is reached. |
101: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | NH Health Access Network | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To strengthen the NH health care safety net (emergency care, primary care, specialty care and in-patient care ) by improving financial access systems based on uniform core principles for care for low-income uninsured and under-insured people statewide. | | Detail: | To fund a community coordinator for program outreach to additional medical practices especially specialty practices. | | Outcomes: | This project built on the existing NH Health Access network structure to try to recruit physician practices (especially specialty practices) into the financial network used by the hospitals. The project was very successful in networking with other EH project (NH Minority Health Coalition and NH Partech) to try to bring those tools and resources to their effort. The project use focus groups of applicants and consumers to make program improvements and established a statewide network of share best practices across the hospitals and participating practices. Bilingual materials were developed. Though planned as the first year of a potentially multi-year theme grant, this project was sustained by other outside funds and Endowment funding was not needed |
102: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | Building Systemic Change to Strengthen and Sustain New Hampshire's Community Health Centers | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $195,194 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To create systemic change for strengthening New Hampshire's safety net by ensuring the sustainability of New Hampshire's community health centers (CHCs) to ensure the delivery of essential primary and preventive health care services to the uninsured and underinsured in New Hampshire. | | Detail: | To continue to support (1) a media and communications specialist to continue statewide messaging and communication efforts to increase awareness of NH community health centers; (2) an administrative assistant/data coordinator to provide administrative support and data critical to grant priorities (3) consultants to provide expertise in developing and supporting strategies to strengthen the financial viability of the community health centers. |
103: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
| Project: | Understanding the Market | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $20,052 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase access of self-employed and micro-business owners to health insurance information by developing a web site specifically designed for the self-employed micro-business user that will present unbiased information about how the health insurance system works and what options are available in NH. | | Detail: | To fund website design and content development, testing, revision and marketing. |
104: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
| Project: | Understanding the Market | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $44,948 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase access of self-employed and micro-business owners to health insurance information by developing a web site specifically designed for the self-employed micro-business user that will present unbiased information about how the health insurance system works and what options are available in NH. | | Detail: | To fund website design and content development, testing, revision and marketing. |
105: Child Health Services
| Project: | Pediatric Family Support Workers | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $175,829 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 36 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To expand the model of comprehensive health care used by Child Health Services to private pediatric practices by adding family support workers to health teams to address social needs of low income children. | | Detail: | To fund the placement of family support workers in two private pediatric practices in Manchester, to establish the resources necessary to sustain the support worker positions beyond the grant period & to evaluate outcomes of this model to support policy change. |
106: Bi-State Primary Care Association
| Project: | Building Systemic Change to Strengthen and Sustain NH's Community Health Centers | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $175,000 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | Berlin HSA, Claremont HSA, Colebrook HSA, Concord HSA, Conway HSA, Derry HSA, Dover HSA, Exeter HSA, Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA, Lancaster HSA, Lebanon HSA, Littleton HSA, Manchester HSA, Massachusetts Border HSA, Nashua HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To strengthen the financial sustainability of NH CHC fundraising; to provide financial TA for systems barriers in operations of CHC's. | | Detail: | To fund finance specialist, communications specialist, administrative support staff, development consultant, PR materials & supportive costs. To continue to support project by funding for one year a finance specialist, communications specialist, development consultant, PR materials & supportive costs. |
107: New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
| Project: | Citizens for Health Access | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $90,000 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Exeter HSA, Manchester HSA | | Description: | To initiate and intensively engage citizens in debate around issues of access to health care, thereby building public support for new models & systemic change at the local & state level; build an active network of citizen leaders who can speak to the issues. | | Detail: | To fund 50% of project to support the grassroots organizing, training and leadership development portion of the project. To initiate funding for one year this project to advance the grassroots organizing, training and leadership development capability of this organization regarding statewide health issues in order to support the future public policy work of the Endowment and others. |
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