$299,200 | 24 Months
Aging in New York Fund, Inc.
Jacqueline Berman
"Healthy Encounters: Linking Mental Health Services within Local Senior Centers, A Model Approach"This project is a public/private partnership between the NYC Department for the Aging (DFTA) and two mental health organizations, New York Service Program for Older People (SPOP) and Spanish Speaking Elderly Council (RAÍCES), to work with local senior centers by offering a range of therapeutic mental health services onsite at senior centers, offsite at their mental health clinics, or in the seniors' homes.
Project Start Date: January 2003 Project End Date: December 2007$364,000 | 24 Months
Beth Israel Medical Center
Russell Portenoy
“The Palliative Care Home Care Service”This grant is to create a replicable, nurse-driven, financially sustainable home care program that promotes and delivers improved palliative care for homebound medically ill, elderly patients.
Project Start Date: April 2003 Project End Date: September 2005$194,000 | 12 Months
Beth Israel Medical Center
Knox Todd
“Emergency Department Palliative Care Screening and Brief Intervention - "BriefPal" - For Addressing Elderly Patients' Unmet Palliative Care and Hospice Needs.”This grant will help fund the initial 12-month launch period of the Palliative Care Screening and Brief Intervention program, "BriefPal," collaboration between the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute and the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care.
Project Start Date: January 2007 Project End Date: December 2007$300,000 | 24 Months
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Joseph Sacco
“Palliative Medicine Consultation Service (PMCS)”This grant will support the implementation of a culturally competent, elder-focused, in-patient palliative care consultation service.
Project Start Date: April 2004 Project End Date: April 2006$60,000 | 12 Months
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Joseph Sacco
"Health Advocacy in Palliative Care Medicine at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center"A graduate-level trained health advocate will be added to the pre-existing Palliative Medicine Consultation Service (PMCS) team, comprised by a doctor, nurse practitioner, and social worker to assist all aspects of palliative medicine practice at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.
Project Start Date: October 2006 Project End Date: April 2008$242,000 | 24 Months
Cabrini Medical Center
Mary Cooke
“Cabrini Alzheimer's Care Program”This program brings support and assistance to patients and families who are not yet eligible for hospice care. The program provides assessment and treatment for patients with Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, and for the frail elderly, and offers education and respite for family caregivers.
Project Start Date: May 2005 Project End Date: April 2007$250,000 | 36 Months
Calvary Hospital
Nancy D'Agostino
“Nursing Home Hospice Program”This grant will support a team of Calvary staff to work with ten additional nursing homes to increase access to hospice care for nursing home residents by establishing a hospice within the nursing home.
Project Start Date: July 2004 Project End Date: July 2007$216,000 | 24 Months
Columbia University in the City of New York
Robert Lewy
“Community Based Mental Health Services for Harlem Elderly”This program will provide culturally competent mental health services to the Harlem elderly through a partnership between a community-based primary care practice, Isabella Geriatric Home Healthcare agency.
Project Start Date: January 2006 Project End Date: September 2008$209,000 | 24 Months
Columbia University in the City of New York
Stephan Marshall
“The ElderSmile Dental Network: Delivering Dental Services to the Elderly in Northern Manhattan”This grant will be used to deliver dental services to low-income, underserved elderly in northern Manhattan.
Project Start Date: April 2006 Project End Date: September 2008$250,000 | 24 Months
Common Ground
Ellen Goetz
“Home, Health and Wellness (HHW)”This grant is to create a an on-site medical and mental health care program to meet the critical health needs of the homeless and marginally housed elderly living on and around the environs of the Bowery.
Project Start Date: February 2003 Project End Date: June 2006$220,000 | 24 Months
Continuum Hospice Care/Jacob Perlow Hospice
Carolyn Cassin
“Harlem Community Hospice Outreach Program”This grant will support an outreach program to address the under-utilization of hospice services in Harlem by integrating Continuum's Hospice program into the Harlem community.
Project Start Date: January 2005 Project End Date: January 2007$189,000 | 24 Months
Cornell University - Weill Medical College
Eugenia Siegler
“Creating a Palliative Care Program for Hospitalized Patients”This grant would help to fund a newly established palliative care consultation service.
Project Start Date: July 2006 Project End Date: July 2008$273,000 | 36 Months
Cornell University - Weill Medical College
Eugenia Siegler
“Enhancing the Care of Hospitalized Frail Elderly (HELP)”This program is designed to reduce the risk of delirium and functional decline in hospitalized elders, using and adapting the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), which was first developed and implemented at Yale-New Haven Hospital with funding from the Samuels Foundation.
Project Start Date: December 2003 Project End Date: December 2006$200,000 | 24 Months
DOROT, Inc.
Sara Peller
“East Side Expansion”This grant would help DOROT expand its pilot of services in Manhattan's East Side (14th to 96th Street) in order to increase the number of older adults who can participate in DOROT's core programs, such as Shop & Escort and Friendly Visiting.
Project Start Date: March 2003 Project End Date: March 2005
$132,000 | 24 Months
Encore Community Services
Lillian McNamara
“C.A.R.E.: Coordinated & Appropriate Resources for the Elderly”This grant is would expand Encore's case management program for seniors. This program helps provide the necessary services, resources and information that can have a positive impact on their clients lives and assists them to remain at home, avoiding institutionalization for as long as possible.
Project Start Date: April 2003 Project End Date: April 2005$300,000 | 36 Months
Flushing Hospital & Medical Center
Bruce Flanz
“Pain and Palliative Care Consultation Service (PPCCS)”The Flushing Hospital Medical Center (FHMC) Department of Medicine proposes to develop and implement a Pain and Palliative Care Consultation Service (PPCCS) to improve access and availability of palliative care services to elderly patients in advanced stages of disease and their families.
Project Start Date: January 2004 Project End Date: January 2007$100,000 | 14 Months
Goddard Riverside Community Center
Stephan Russo
“Aging in Place Project”This grant will provide transitional funding to sustain social work, health, financial and legal services and provide additional supports during the renovations of Goddard’s HUD 202 residential building for older adults. Once completed, the program will achieve self-sufficiency as a result of the increased cash flow from the building’s refinancing.
Project Start Date: May 2005 Project End Date: June 2006$90,000 | 24 Months
Grand Street Settlement
Miriam Colon
“Baruch Elders Services Team (BEST) Program”The BEST Program was established in 2003 in response to findings from a needs assessment. A multi-service NORC-like program offered in partnership with Cabrini Medical Center, BEST is targeted to the specific needs of the senior residents of the Bernard Baruch Houses. BEST's unique tiered model is designed to combat the negative effects of aging and of poverty and provides medical services, social services, and socialization and recreation activities for hundreds of Baruch housing senior residents.
Project Start Date: April 2005 Project End Date: April 2007$250,000 | 24 Months
Grand Street Settlement
Margarita Rosa
“The BEST Program (Baruch Elder Services Team)”Grand Street, in partnership with Cabrini Hospital, Cabrini Center For Rehabilitation, and NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA), will implement a comprehensive senior services program, modeled on the NORC Supportive Services model at Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side.
Project Start Date: January 2003 Project End Date: January 2005$100,000 | 18 Months
Health Advocates for Older People, Inc.
Friedhilde Milburn
“The Healthy Aging Program at Carnegie East House”This program will help residents of an assisted living residence and nearby apartment buildings to age-in-place by providing healthcare management and promotion services by a nurse practitioner as well as home safety assessments by other staff and volunteers. This program will minimize nursing home and hospital admissions while enhancing the quality of life of participants.
Project Start Date: April 2003 Project End Date: December 2004$200,000 | 24 Months
Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale
Daniel Reingold
“Long-Term-Care-Based Elder Abuse Prevention and Intervention Center”This grant will support the nation's first comprehensive elder abuse intervention and prevention center, including an elder abuse shelter for the elderly living in the community.
Project Start Date: August 2005 Project End Date: March 2008$220,000 | 24 Months
Highbridge Community Life Center, Inc.
Edward Phelan
“Nurse Aide Training Program”This program seeks to improve the level of care received by the elderly by expanding HCLC's successful Nurse Aide training program.
Project Start Date: December 2002 Project End Date: December 2004$172,500 | 24 Months
Hospital for Joint Diseases
Stephen Honig
“Osteoporosis Model of Care Program”This grant will be used to ensure patients receive bone density testing and/or osteoporosis medication after sustaining a fragility fracture.
Project Start Date: September 2006 Project End Date: August 2008$237,000 | 36 Months
Hudson Guild, Inc.
Brian Saber
“Senior Wellness Access Program (SWAP)”This grant will support the creation of the Senior Wellness Access Program (SWAP) that integrates services from four community providers into a comprehensive care model that identifies and meets the mental and healthcare needs of seniors in Chelsea.
Project Start Date: April 2005 Project End Date: July 2008$275,500 | 24 Months
Institute for Urban Family Health
Virna Little
“Caring for Seniors: Project IMPACT in NYC”This grant would support the replication of Project IMPACT (Improving Mood - Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment) a mental health program designed to identify and treat depression in the elderly at three health centers in the Bronx and three in Manhattan.
Project Start Date: January 2004 Project End Date: January 2006$150,000 | 12 Months
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Alan Roth
“Family Medicine Palliative Care Program”This grant will be used to establish a hospital-wide, interdisciplinary, patient- and family-centered, culturally competent Family Medicine Palliative Care Program for predominantly poor, elderly, and minority patients who do not have access to palliative care.
Project Start Date: September 2005 Project End Date: August 2006$200,000 | 24 Months
Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA)
Leah Ferster
“JASA-Oxford Social Work Services Program”This program will connect identified members with community supports and give access to entitlements and other services so that they can continue to live in their own homes and communities. JASA is requesting start-up funding for this service and will be fully reimbursed for services for Oxford Medicare HMO clients.
Project Start Date: November 2005 Project End Date: November 2007$171,000 | 16 Months
Lenox Hill Hospital
Elizabeth Clark
“Outpatient Geriatrics Center”This grant would support the expansion of the Outpatient Geriatrics Center, which will enable it to be open full time and increase capacity by 300%.
Project Start Date: October 2003 Project End Date: February 2005$297,000 | 36 Months
Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation
Patricia Gallatin
“Alzheimer's Companions - Expansion to Queens”This program is an in-home respite program that offers a three-hour block of care every other week to individuals with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. This program provides care and cognitive stimulation to patients in their own homes and gives a periodic break to caregivers.
Project Start Date: June 2003 Project End Date: June 2007$201,000 | 24 Months
Metropolitan Jewish Health System
Barbara Hiney
“Building a Sustainable Home Visiting Palliative Medicine Program”This grant will be used to establish a sustainable home-visiting Palliative Medicine Program.
Project Start Date: October 2005 Project End Date: December 2007$225,000 | 24 Months
Montefiore Medical Center
Sean O'Mahoney
“A Palliative Care and Case Management Model in the Emergency Department”This grant will support the development and implementation of a program in the Emergency Department that will improve access to palliative care and hospice services.
Project Start Date: April 2004 Project End Date: January 2007$229,000 | 24 Months
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Theresa Soriano
“Visiting Doctor Program Inpatient Nurse Practitioner”This grant will be used to implement a new model of hospital care for the Visiting Doctors Program patients who require hospitalization.
Project Start Date: June 2006 Project End Date: January 2009$199,000 | 24 Months
Mount Sinai Hospital
Umesh Gidwani
“Palliative Care Consultation Service: Communication, Dignity, and Respect”This grant will be used to enhance and expand Mount Sinai-Queen's hospital-based Palliative Care Consultation Service (PCCS).
Project Start Date: October 2005 Project End Date: September 2008$200,000 | 18 Months
New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc.
Randye Retkin
“LegalHealth's Senior Advocacy Project”This grant will allow LegalHealth to expand to provide legal assistance to seniors where they receive healthcare services (e.g., hospital geriatric units/clinics, palliative care programs), thus affording ease of access for patients.
Project Start Date: March 2007 Project End Date: September 2008$175,000 | 24 Months
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Evelyn Granieri
“Syncope and Falls in the Elderly (SAFE) Clinic in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Aging”This grant will help create an interdisciplinary clinical facility that provides evaluation and management of falls and syncope in the elderly.
Project Start Date: January 2007 Project End Date: December 2008$310,000 | 36 Months
North General Hospital
Valentine Burroughs
“Medical House Call Program”This grant supports a portion of the expenses of an initiative to develop teams comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners and social workers that would visit frail elderly in their homes, become their primary care providers and coordinate all aspects of care.
Project Start Date: June 2003 Project End Date: August 2007$354,000 | 24 Months
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc.
Joseph Weiner
“Special Clinical Support Service (SCSS) for the Gravely Ill Elderly and Their Families”This program will provide supportive and palliative care services to patients who have been rejected for admission for intensive care services at LIJ. It will help patients, loved ones, and physicians sort out the crucial and complex medical decisions to be made at the end of someone's life.
Project Start Date: October 2002 Project End Date: October 2004$126,000 | 12 Months
Odyssey House, Inc.
Frank Dominelli
“Geriatric Dental Care Initiative”This grant will fund a geriatric dental clinic for patients in Odyssey House's ElderCare residential and out-patient programs.
Project Start Date: January 2007 Project End Date: July 2008$200,000 | 24 Months
Odyssey House, Inc.
Peter Provet
“ElderCare Outpatient Program”This grant will support a case manager and a social worker to create an outpatient substance abuse and psychotherapeutic treatment track, within the Odyssey House Outpatient Treatment Program, dedicated to elderly substance abusers living in NYC.
Project Start Date: April 2004 Project End Date: April 2006$233,000 | 24 Months
Our Lady Of Mercy Medical Center
T.S. Dharmarajan
“Mercy Care Partners in Health”This grant will support the expansion of a geriatric practice designed to improve the healthcare and quality of life of elderly residents living in two medically underserved communities in the Bronx by offering increased office hours and physician house call services.
Project Start Date: August 2004 Project End Date: August 2006$250,000 | 24 Months
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc.
Steven Dawson
“Quality Jobs/Quality Care at Care at Home”This grant will fund the replication of the PHI's innovative quality jobs/quality care model within Care at Home, a home care agency in Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: January 2005 Project End Date: January 2007$214,000 | 24 Months
Park Slope Geriatric Day Center, Inc.
Marianne Nicolosi
“Developing a Free-Standing, Fee-for-Service Geriatric Care Management Program”This grant will support the development of a self-sustaining care management program in Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: May 2006 Project End Date: May 2008$225,000 | 24 Months
Per Scholas, Inc.
Plinio Ayala
“Comp2Seniors, Helping Older Adults Through Technology”This grant will be used to provide home computers and technology training to low-income elderly in New York City.
Project Start Date: September 2006 Project End Date: August 2008$258,000 | 36 Months
Puerto Rican Family Institute, Inc.
Elvira Gonzalez
“Life Line Center for Latino Seniors”This program will offer Latino seniors, with a special focus on grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, linguistically and culturally sensitive mental health treatment, home visiting services, case management and peer support.
Project Start Date: October 2004 Project End Date: July 2008$203,000 | 24 Months
ReServe Elder Service, Inc.
Claire Haaga Altman
“Elder-to-Elder: Engaging Older Adults In the Care and Service of Frail Elderly”This grant will provide support to help connect older adults with stipend-paying jobs that challenge them to use their lifetime skills and experience to help the frail elderly.
Project Start Date: August 2006 Project End Date: July 2008$225,000 | 36 Months
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center - Manhattan
F. Russell Kellogg
“Homebound Health Care Program - Latinos Unidos en la Communidad”This grant would support the replication of an in-home, long-term home health services program to reach the frail, homebound elderly living in the Lower East Side.
Project Start Date: January 2004 Project End Date: January 2007$212,150 | 12 Months
Samuel Field YM & YWHA, Inc.
Steven Goodman
“NORC-WOW Implementation Phase, Year 1”This grant would fund the first year of implementing a NORC supportive services to a community of free standing one and two family homes. It follows a successful one year planning and community building phase that was funded by the Samuels Foundation.
Project Start Date: January 2004 Project End Date: January 2005$312,850 | 24 Months
Samuel Field YM & YWHA, Inc.
Karen Schwab
“NORC-WOW Implementation PhaseThis grant will fund the next three years of the implementation phase for developing NORC supportive services in a community of freestanding one and two-family homes in Northeast Queens.
Project Start Date: January 2005 Project End Date: December 2008$130,000 | 24 Months
Samuel Field YM & YWHA, Inc.
Jane Bardavid
“Providing Mental Health Services in Senior Centers”The Samuel Field Y's certified geriatric mental health clinic, Community Advisory Program for the Elderly (CAPE), intends to increase access to mental health care for older adults through the development of satellites in four senior centers in Queens.
Project Start Date: October 2005 Project End Date: October 2007$250,000 | 30 Months
Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE)
Terry Kaelber
“Harlem/East Harlem SAGE Neighbors/NORC Without Walls”This grant will be used to replicate and sustain a "NORC Without Walls" program for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors living in the Harlem/East Harlem neighborhoods of New York City.
Project Start Date: January 2004 Project End Date: July 2006$195,000 | 18 Months
Service Program for Older People, Inc. (SPOP)
Nancy Harvey
“Expansion of Mental Health Counseling for Older Adults”This grant would fund the expansion of SPOP's mental health Clinic and homebound program to address the growing needs for mental health services for the under-served, elderly in New York City.
Project Start Date: April 2003 Project End Date: October 2004$143,000 | 12 Months
Service Program for Older People, Inc. (SPOP)
Nancy Harvey
“Mental Health Counseling for Dually Diagnosed Older Adults”This grant will help SPOP expand its mental health Clinic to meet the needs of seniors with a primary diagnosis of mental illness and a secondary diagnosis of alcoholism or substance abuse (dually diagnosed), an under-served segment of the elderly population in Manhattan.
Project Start Date: March 2005 Project End Date: June 2006$166,000 | 12 Months
Service Program for Older People, Inc. (SPOP)
Nancy Harvey
“Mental Health Outreach Services for Older Adults”Under this program, SPOP will expand its community based clinical services to address the mental health needs of the underserved, elderly Latino and Asian populations in New York.
Project Start Date: December 2006 Project End Date: December 2007$200,000 | 24 Months
Staten Island University Hospital
Donna Seminara
“Elder Homebound Visit Program”This grant will support the expansion of a comprehensive home visit program for homebound elderly with complex and serious illnesses.
Project Start Date: April 2004 Project End Date: April 2006$208,000 | 36 Months
Union Settlement Association
Ellen Simon
“Senior Center Mental Health Program”This grant will fund the development of a mental health program in East Harlem. The program's main focus will be on elders who attend Union Settlement's four senior centers and their homebound, meals-on-wheels clients. The program will offer group and individual counseling conducted by licensed social workers.
Project Start Date: March 2004 Project End Date: December 2007$200,000 | 24 Months
United Hospital Fund
David Gould
“NORC Program Blueprint”This grant will support the creation of a "Blueprint" for the development, operation and evaluation of both neighborhood- and housing-based NORC supportive service programs.
Project Start Date: April 2005 Project End Date: June 2007$246,500 | 18 Months
Urban Health Plan, Inc.
Paloma Hernandez
“Projecto Sabiduria”This grant will help fund the launch of a comprehensive system of primary and specialty medical care, and mental health services using an interdisciplinary approach to expand access, improve service delivery and enhance the quality of life for the community's elderly.
Project Start Date: March 2007 Project End Date: September 2008$120,000 | 12 Months
UJA-Federation of New York
Anita Altman
“Northeast Queens NORC Initiative, Stage I”This is the first stage of a two stage project that will create a NORC supportive services program to address the needs of an aged-in senior population residing in a community of one and two family homes. This stage will focus on community organizing and program development.
Project Start Date: January 2002 Project End Date: January 2003$225,000 | 36 Months
Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.
Jean Callahan
“Nonprofit Guardianship Service and Cooperative Assistance Network”This grant will be used to develop and implement a demonstration project that will provide high-quality guardianship services to people found to be incapacitated regardless of their wealth.
Project Start Date: April 2005 Project End Date: July 2008top Archives