Foundation Awards $5.8 Million to 45 Organizations
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 19, 2010 --Forty-five Missouri nonprofits have received more than $5.8 million in grants recently awarded by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH). Funding assists organizations that work to improve the health of thousands of Missourians, especially the uninsured and underserved. Grants support nonprofits’ operational expenses, chronic care management, and health care workforce development.
Organizations receiving an MFH grant for the first time are marked with an asterisk (*).
Six grants totaling more than $1.7 million were made through MFH’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) funding program. All six grants are part of PCMH’s Advancing Chronic Care through Excellence in Systems and Support (ACCESS) initiative. ACCESS funds projects that better coordinate care for patients with multiple chronic illnesses, including diabetes. Grants were awarded to:
Advocates for a Healthy Community Inc., Springfield, $295,087. Grant funding helps the organization integrate services for patients with diabetes, asthma, heart disease and depression.
Barton County Memorial Hospital, Lamar, $300,000. Grant funds help the southwest Missouri hospital provide self-management education to patients with chronic illness.
CoxHealth, Springfield, $300,000. With grant funding, the health system is creating a collaborative care center for patients with multiple conditions.
Mississippi County Health Department, Charleston, $300,000. The southeast Missouri health department is using funds to expand its multidisciplinary staff and integrate care for patients with multiple conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Morgan County Health Center, Versailles, $232,574. With funding, the central Missouri health department is creating a multidisciplinary chronic care team and educating patients about chronic disease management.
University of Missouri, Columbia, $300,000. Funds help the university’s hospital system establish a chronic care management system to help patients meet disease management goals.
Thirty-five grants totaling more than $3.4 million come through MFH’s Basic Support program. Basic Support funds operational expenses for health-related nonprofits’ existing salaries, benefits, equipment and supplies. Organizations receiving these two-year grants are:
American Liver Foundation Missouri Chapter, St. Louis, $100,000. Funding helps the organization educate students and the community about liver health, and prevention and treatment of liver disease.
American Red Cross Northeast Missouri Chapter, Hannibal, $100,000. Funding helps the northeast Missouri organization provide a number of health, education, prevention and emergency assistance programs to the public.
* Area Agency on Aging Region X, Joplin, $100,000. With funding, the organization assists uninsured and underserved southwest Missouri seniors in need of counseling, education, referrals, health screenings and wellness programs.
* Ascent Recovery Residences Inc., Joplin, $53,600. Funding helps the southwest Missouri organization offer addiction treatment and recovery services for low-income men.
* Audrain County Crisis Intervention Services Inc., Mexico, $100,000. Funding helps the central Missouri organization provide services for uninsured and underserved women dealing with domestic and sexual violence.
AVENUES, Hannibal, $100,000. With grant funding, the northeast Missouri organization serves uninsured and underserved women and children suffering from domestic and sexual abuse.
* Bevo Area Community Improvement Corp., St. Louis, $100,000. Funding helps the organization provide transportation and nutritious meals for underserved residents.
* Birthright Counseling St. Louis, $100,000. The organization uses funding to continue offering confidential testing, counseling and support to women facing unintended pregnancies.
Butler County Council on Aging Inc., Poplar Bluff, $100,000. With the help of funding, the southeast Missouri organization offers meals, nutrition education and health services to homebound seniors.
Children’s Home Society of Missouri, St. Louis, $200,000. Funding helps the organization provide care and residential services to children with severe, multiple developmental disabilities.
* Clarkson Eyecare Foundation, Ellisville, $24,800. Funds help the organization provide eye care and education for uninsured and underserved children and adults in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
* Crime Victim Advocacy Center of St. Louis, $100,000. Grant funding helps the organization offer mental health and crisis response services to crime victims.
Deaconess Parish Nurse Ministries LLC, St. Louis, $100,000. The organization uses grant funds to continue providing parish nurse services to the uninsured and those who have difficulty accessing care.
Dexter Community Regional Healthcare Foundation, Dexter, $100,000. With funding, the southeast Missouri organization offers prescription assistance, health screening and education to uninsured and at-risk individuals.
* Faith Community Health, Branson, $40,000. Funding helps the southwest Missouri organization provide wellness, nutrition, education, and physical and mental health services for the uninsured.
Give Kids A Smile Inc., St. Peters, $100,000. With the help of funding, the St. Louis-area organization provides dental care to uninsured and underserved children.
* Higbee Senior Citizens Center Inc., Higbee, $100,000. The northeast Missouri organization uses funding to continue providing nutritious meals, health education and related services to underserved, disabled and homebound residents.
Home Parenteral Services, Springfield, $200,000. With the help of funding, the organization serves poor and uninsured residents needing outpatient infusion therapy.
House of Refuge, Sikeston, $100,000. Funding helps the southeast Missouri organization provide crisis intervention services to women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence.
Institute for Family Medicine, St. Louis, $100,000. With the help of grant funding, the organization provides health and dental programs for the underserved and students from low-income families.
Jamestown New Horizons, St. Louis, $88,000. Funding helps the organization provide equestrian therapy to children and adults with mental and physical disabilities.
Marceline Area Nutrition Program Inc., Marceline, $86,000. With the help of funding, the northern Missouri organization provides home visits, nutrition services and meals to the elderly.
* Metropolitan Senior Citizens Corp., St. Louis, $100,000. Funding helps the organization provide nutritious meals and health and exercise programs for seniors.
Missouri Hepatitis C Alliance, Columbia, $56,000. Funding helps the central Missouri organization offer hepatitis testing, prevention and education services to low-income individuals.
Missouri Ozarks Community Health, Ava, $200,000. With the help of funding, the southern Missouri organization provides physical, mental and oral health services to uninsured and underserved residents.
National Kidney Foundation Serving Eastern Missouri & Metro East, St. Louis, $100,000. Funding assists the organization in providing screenings and education on kidney disease and treatment.
* Owensville Senior Center, Owensville, $29,200. The central Missouri organization uses funding to continue offering nutritious meals, health education, screenings, and exercise programs for seniors.
Pony Bird Inc., Mapaville, $100,000. Funds help the St. Louis-area organization provide residential, day program, respite and community integration services for children and adults with severe to profound mental and physical disabilities.
Randolph Area YMCA, Moberly, $100,000. Funding helps the organization offer health, education and fitness programs in central Missouri.
Safe at Home, Springfield, $24,000. Funds help the organization provide low-income individuals with personal emergency response assistance and in-home medication dispensing systems.
Self Help Center Inc., St. Louis, $100,000. With funding, the organization continues to provide peer support, education, employment counseling and suicide intervention services for individuals in need.
Senior Care Dentistry, St. Louis, $100,000. Funding helps the organization provide dental services to low-income skilled nursing facility residents.
Serve Inc., Fulton, $100,000. Funding helps the central Missouri organization offer medical transportation, food, financial assistance, shelter and outreach programs to people in need.
St. Louis Integrated Health Network, St. Louis, $100,000. With the help of funding, the organization connects individuals in need with primary care medical homes, and provides other medical referral services.
Texas County Food Pantry Inc., Houston, $100,000. Funding helps the southern Missouri organization provide food and nutrition services to the needy.
MFH’s Health Care Workforce Development funding program supports projects that increase the number of health care practitioners in underserved areas; encourage youth to consider health careers; and increase nursing schools’ enrollment capacity. MFH awarded a total of $717,400 through five grants to:
CoxHealth, Springfield, $147,653. Funding helps the health system encourage students to explore health professions through career fairs, school visits, volunteering, job shadowing and facility tours.
* Farmington High School, Farmington, $133,140. With grant funding, the eastern Missouri school is encouraging students to pursue health careers through coursework, career counseling and field experiences.
Freeman Health System, Joplin, $150,000. Funding helps the southwest Missouri health system establish an academy offering students a broad health care curriculum and career tracking.
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, $150,000. Funds help the university educate elementary school counselors and students about health career options.
* St. Louis Internship Program, St. Louis, $136,607. With grant funding, the organization is helping public high school students from low-income families secure paid summer internships and health career coaching.
Established in 2000, MFH is the largest nongovernmental funder of community health activities in Missouri. MFH is in its eighth year of grantmaking, having issued more than $380 million in grants and awards to date. It is dedicated to improving the health of unserved and underserved residents in 84 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis.
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