$197,000 | 11 Months
Abyssinian Development Corporation
Sheena Wright
"Harlem Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (Harlem NNORC)”This grant will support Phase II (needs assessment and community building) of the development of a neighborhood NORC program in Harlem.
Project Start Date: December 2008$150,000 | 24 Months
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association, Inc.
Della Frazier-Rios
"Outreach to the Chinese Community”This grant will support the launch of a community outreach program targeting the Chinese community.
Project Start Date: February 2008$299,000 | 24 Months
Betances Health Center
Santos Rivera
“Betances Geriatric Service Center”This grant will support the development of a new geriatric service to meet the community health care needs of elderly minority patients residing in the Lower East Side.
Project Start Date: June 2008$100,000 | 12 Months
Beth Israel Medical Center
Knox Todd
“Emergency Department Palliative Care Champions Pilot Project”The proposed pilot is the next stage in a long-term effort by Beth Israel to promote palliative care training and rapid quality improvement methodology in emergency departments. The project will use the "train-the-trainer" method, and will test implementation of the model, with the eventual goal of expanding to hospital emergency departments throughout New York City.
Project Start Date: March 2009$131,000 | 24 Months
Bridge Street Development Corporation
Colette GK Pierre
“Director of Programs at the Quincy Senior Residence”This grant will support a full-time Social Worker/Program Director for a supportive service program that will provide health and social services in direct response to the needs of the elderly of the Quincy Residence in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: September 2007$300,000 | 24 Months
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Marcella Scaccia
"Improving Health Care Outcomes in Homebound High Risk Vulnerable Elders in the South Bronx: An Enhanced Interdisciplinary Model of Home Based Primary Care”This grant will support the expansion of a visiting doctor program for homebound elderly residing in the Bronx.
Project Start Date: January 2009$195,000 | 24 Months
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
Louis Belzie
"Palliative Care Consultation Services"Grant funds will be used to enhance and expand palliative care services to better serve the economically disadvantaged, socially diverse elderly population in eastern and central Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: January 2007$232,000 | 24 Months
Brownsville Community Development Corporation
Azimah Ehr
"BMS Geriatric Supportive Services”This grant will support the development of a new geriatric service to meet the community health care needs of elderly minority patients residing in Brownsville and East New York Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: January 2009$230,000 | 24 Months
Care for the Homeless
Debbian Fletcher-Blake
"Program for Diabetic Homeless Seniors”This grant will help establish a program that will serve diabetic and at risk homeless seniors at two transitional residences.
Project Start Date: September 2008$300,000 | 24 Months
Catholic Health Care System (CHCS)
Kathryn McGuire
"Harlem PACE”This grant will support the development of a Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program in Harlem, which will provide low-income, mostly minority participants with access to an entire continuum of health care services, including preventive, primary, acute, and long-term care.
Project Start Date: October 2008$250,000 | 24 Months
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Jane T. Eng
"Medical Home for Chinese American Elderly”This grant will support the development of a geriatric practice in a Federally Qualified Health Center based on the Medical Home Model.
Project Start Date: May 2009$300,000 | 24 Months
Cornell University - Weill Medical College
Mark Lachs
"New York City Elder Abuse Center”This grant will support the development and implementation of a multi-disciplinary Elder Abuse Center in New York City.
Project Start Date: July 2009$200,000 | 24 Months
Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, Inc.
Igal Jellinek
“CSCS Senior Nutrition Marketplace”This grant will help grow a senior services group purchasing organization, from its pilot phase to a fully operational and self-sustaining operation.
Project Start Date: May 2007$120,000 | 24 Months
Encore Community Services
Mary Ann Collins
“Encore West Residence”This grant will support a full-time Care Coordinator who will provide social service assistance to low-income seniors residing at the newly opened Encore West Residence, a HUD 202 senior housing project located in Clinton (Hell's Kitchen).
Project Start Date: March 2007$516,000 | 24 Months
Food Bank for New York City
Carlos Rodriguez
“NYC Benefits: Increasing Enrollment of Poor New York Seniors in Needed Assistance Programs”The Medicare Rights Center (MRC) and the Food Bank For New York City (Food Bank) will enroll New York seniors in an array of low-income assistance programs and to work with each other and City agencies to improve enrollment systems, making it easier for City seniors to secure critical low-income assistance.
Project Start Date: May 2009$200,000 | 18 Months
HHC Foundation of New York City
Lauren Shaiova
“Metropolitan Hospital Center: Expanding Culturally Competent Palliative Care Services”This grant will help support the development of a new pain and palliative care team at Metropolitan Hospital Center.
Project Start Date: January 2008$300,000 | 28 Months
HHC Foundation of New York City
Michael Chambers
“Geriatric Mental Health Services in the Primary Care Setting: Project IMPACT”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 Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: January 2009$195,000 | 24 Months
Hospice Care Network
Maureen Hinkelman
“Improving Access to Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life Care for Elderly Asian and Hispanic Residents of Queens”This program will help to increase awareness and utilization of hospice and palliative care services by the elderly Asian (Chinese and Korean) and Hispanic populations in Queens.
Project Start Date: January 2008$170,000 | 18 Months
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function/Beth Abraham
Concetta Tomaino
“Enhancing Community-based and Home Care with Music Therapy”This grant will support the expansion of a music therapy program to provide therapy services to housebound elderly.
Project Start Date: January 2009$299,000 | 36 Months
Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged
Audrey Weiner
“An Integrated Person-Centered Approach to Palliative Care”This grant will support the development of a replicable model of unit based palliative care in the nursing home.
Project Start Date: September 2008$225,000 | 24 Months
Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged
Audrey Weiner
“Telecare Community Palliative Care Program”This program will bring comprehensive palliative care services into the home care setting by incorporating the services of a palliative care nurse practitioner with telehealth to assist in case identification and monitoring.
Project Start Date: June 2007$200,000 | 24 Months
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
Sarita Patel
“Palliative Care Service Expansion”Expansion of the newly formed Palliative Care Service.
Project Start Date: May 2008$200,000 | 24 Months
Lighthouse International
Tara Easter
“Geriatric Home-Based Low Vision Partnership Program”The proposed program will implement an innovative, multi-disciplinary, home-based health care model to serve homebound older adults with vision impairment residing in Manhattan. This new model will utilize a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner to conduct home health assessments that include visual functioning in order to identify service needs and implement home-based low vision care, necessary vision rehabilitation services, and other allied health care services.
Project Start Date: February 2007$212,000 | 36 Months
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
Stephanie Pinder
“Strengthening Seniors”This grant would support a community based mental health program that is a continuum of care and support model, utilizing a collaborative approach with hospital-based services.
Project Start Date: January 2007$172,000 | 24 Months
Lutheran Family Health Centers of Lutheran Medical Center
Frances Picone
“Senior Connections”This program will enable seniors to overcome barriers to seeking mental health treatment by integrating services into senior service programs and by providing services that are culture-specific and offered in the participants' native language.
Project Start Date: March 2008$220,000 | 36 Months
Maimonides Medical Center
Barbara Paris
“Visiting Doctor Program Inpatient Nurse Practitioner”This program seeks to maintain frail high-risk elderly during the transitional period from hospital discharge to home by providing coordinated, comprehensive care by a team of healthcare professionals.
Project Start Date: December 2008$549,000 | 24 Months
Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
Rachel Bennett
“NYC Benefits: Increasing Enrollment of Poor New York Seniors in Needed Assistance Programs”The Medicare Rights Center (MRC) and the Food Bank For New York City (Food Bank) will enroll New York seniors in an array of low-income assistance programs and to work with each other and City agencies to improve enrollment systems, making it easier for City seniors to secure critical low-income assistance.
Project Start Date: May 2009$266,000 | 26 Months
Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
Rachel Bennett
“Increasing Access to Affordable Health Care in Poor New York City Neighborhoods”The Medicare Rights Center (MRC) and targeted community organizations will help community seniors determine appropriate drug plan choices for them, enroll in low-income benefits that will provide significant annual cost-savings, and identify and avoid marketing scams.
Project Start Date: November 2007$115,000 | 12 Months
Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
Rachel Bennett
“Improving the Medicare Buy-In Process to Increase Low-Income Program Enrollment”This grant will enable the MRC to increase enrollment of poor elderly into Medicare Buy-In programs and advocate reforms to simplify the Buy-In process through legislative reforms.
Project Start Date: January 2009$212,000 | 24 Months
Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home Co., Inc.
Barbara Hiney
“Hospice Care for Chinese-American New Yorkers: Creating a Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Program”This grant will support a hospice and palliative care program designed to increase accessible and appropriate care for Chinese-Americans in Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: October 2008$162,000 | 24 Months
Montefiore Medical Center
Sean O' Mahony
“Video-conferenced and face-to-face palliative care and bioethics consultations for elderly patients at Beth Abraham Health Systems and Morningside House”This grant will support a program to extend palliative care and bioethics consultative services to two local nursing homes, Morningside House and Beth Abraham Health Systems through the use of video-conferenced and direct face-to-face consultations.
Project Start Date: January 2008$274,000 | 24 Months
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Theresa Soriano
“Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Home-Based Primary Care”This grant will expand the capacity of the Visiting Doctors Program.
Project Start Date: July 2009$110,000 | 24 Months
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped
Larry Coffee
“Donated Dental Services (DDS)”This grant will support a Donated Dental Services project in New York City to assist needy elderly individuals and people unable to afford extensive dental treatment because of financial challenges associated with mental, physical, and/or medical disabilities.
Project Start Date: July 2007$150,000 | 36 Months
New York Cares
Ariel Zwang
“Increasing the Number of Older Adults Volunteers in Queens”This grant will help to implement a meaningful, replicable, and sustainable volunteer program model that is appealing to individuals over age 60.
Project Start Date: August 2007$300,000 | 36 Months
New York Downtown Hospital
Lester Blair
“Dzi Yuan: Palliative Care and Supportive Consultation Service”This grant will support the implementation of a palliative care consultation service that is culturally competent and focused on the Chinese elders.
Project Start Date: January 2005$300,000 | 36 Months
New York Downtown Hospital
Raj Buddhavarapu
“Acute Care for Elders Unit”This grant will help to establish an Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit to meet the complex needs of the aging population of Lower Manhattan.
Project Start Date: October 2007$190,000 | 36 Months
New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc.
Randye Retkin
“LegalHealth Senior Advocacy Project: Woodhull Medical Center”This grant will fund the expansion of LegalHealth to HHC's Woodhull Hospital.
Project Start Date: May 2009$200,000 | 24 Months
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Michael Weinberger
“Adult Palliative Care Consultation Service at Columbia Campus”This grant will allow Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to expand its existing palliative care service to all of its service lines.
Project Start Date: January 2009$248,000 | 36 Months
New York University
Terry Fulmer
“Addressing the Healthcare Challenges of the 21st Century through and Innovative Nursing Practice Model”This grant will fund a nursing faculty practice which will use Geriatric Nurse Practioners to provide patient-centered services that will support and promote the health of older adults.
Project Start Date: January 2007$203,000 | 24 Months
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc.
Kathleen Pecinka
“Telemedicine Program Targeting Seniors with Congestive Heart Failure in Queens”This grant will support the expansion of North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System Home Care Network's telemedicine program to their home care patients residing in Queens. .
Project Start Date: June 2007$275,000 | 24 Months
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc.
Merryl Siegel
“Caring for Home Bound Seniors with Chronic Illness in Queens”This grant will support the development of a medical home visiting program in Queens.
Project Start Date: August 2008$129,000 | 12 Months
Older Adults Technology Services (OATS)
Thomas Kamber
“Social Impact Analysis and Demonstration Project”This project is a one-year pilot to demonstrate, analyze, and communicate the OATS model of providing technology programs to older adults.
Project Start Date: February 2009$197,000 | 24 Months
Pesach Tikvah Hope Development Inc.
Zalman Kotzen
“In-Home Mental Health Services for Holocaust Survivors”This grant will support a program of urgently needed mental health services targeting isolated, home-bound, frail, elderly Holocaust survivors living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Project Start Date: January 2009$180,000 | 24 Months
Phipps Community Development Corporation
Rosemary Ordonez-Jenkins
“Supportive Senior Service Program at La Casa de Felicidad”This grant will support a full-time Social Worker/Program Coordinator for a supportive services program that will provide advocacy, health services, emotional, social an physical outlets in direct response to the needs and interests of older adult residents of La Casa de la Felicidad in the South Bronx.
Project Start Date: July 2007$162,000 | 24 Months
Riverdale Mental Health Association
Robert Brewster
“Innovative Senior Services”This grant will be used to establish an elder-specific mental health outreach and treatment program in the Northwest Bronx.
Project Start Date: February 2006$287,000 | 24 Months
St. Barnabas Hospital
Joel Sender
“The St. Barnabas Ambulatory Geriatric Center”This grant will help support a team of care givers in order to provide comprehensive health care to low income multi-cultural elder patients.
Project Start Date: June 2009$200,000 | 18 Months
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers
Wendy Edwards
“Implementing a Culturally Proficient Cross Cultural Palliative Care Program”This grant will support the implementation of a Chinese language proficient and culturally competent Palliative Care program in hospital and community settings served by St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan.
Project Start Date: September 2008$220,000 | 18 Months
Service Program for Older People, Inc. (SPOP)
Nancy Harvey
“Meeting Priority Mental Health Needs of Older Adults”This grant will fund the expansion of mental health services to homebound and Spanish speaking older adults.
Project Start Date: July 2008$135,000 | 24 Months
Sunnyside Community Services, Inc.
Judith Zangwill
“Self-Sustaining Social-Model Adult Day Services Program”This grant will help fund a Social Adult Day Services program for cognitively impaired seniors. The grant will also support a marketing and outreach initiative to enable the program to become self-sufficient.
Project Start Date: July 2009$60,000 | 12 Months
University Settlement Society of New York
Michael Zisser
“Senior HeART (Health, Art, Recreation and Technology) Program”The grant will help to expand the scope and quality of health and wellness programs for older residents of lower Manhattan. This second phase will also include continued research and development including developing partnerships with health providers.
Project Start Date: March 2009$211,000 | 24 Months
Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.
Jean Callahan
“The Guardianship Project, Manhattan Expansion”This grant will support the expansion of the Guardianship Project to Manhattan.
Project Start Date: June 2008top Archives