CURRENT HEALTHY AGING GRANTS

$216,000 | 12 Months Abyssinian Development Corporation William Hamer "Harlem Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (Harlem NNORC) Phase III"

The program will continue to build Neighborhood NORC services to seniors in Central Harlem. Project Start Date: August 2010

$300,000 | 24 Months Archcare Marcia Konrad "Bronx PACE"

This program involves the creation of a comprehensive health care and housing resource for frail elderly in the South Bronx, with a primary goal of providing health care without removing patients from their homes.. Project Start Date: March 2011

$155,000 | 18 Months Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, Inc. Pamela Straker "Project IMPACT CHCANYS Depression Collaborative"

This project will increase access to depression screening and treatment for underserved older adults in a primary care setting.. Project Start Date: May 2011

$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

$155,000 | 18 Months Bronx Community Health Network, Inc. Carol Lau "Project IMPACT CHCANYS Depression Collaborative"

This project will increase access to depression screening and treatment for underserved older adults in a primary care setting at the Comprehensive Family Care Center. Project Start Date: May 2011

$200,000 | 24 Months The Brooklyn Hospital Center Elizabeth Bonetti "Palliative Care Consult Service"

This project will expand the palliative care team. Project Start Date: September 2010

$221,000 | 36 Months Calvary Hospital Frank Calamari "Palliative Home Care Pilot Project"

This project will work towards providing effective and direct palliative care in the home for patients with cancer or other potentially life-limiting illnesses. Project Start Date: October 2010

$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

$200,000 | 24 Months Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Stephen Marshall "Improving Health of Older Adults: Primary Health Care Interventions as Part of the Eldersmile Program"

This project will increase access to primary care services, including screening for such conditions as diabetes and hypertension, for the elderly in northern Manhattan. Project Start Date: August 2010

$179,000 | 18 Months Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) Kameron Wells "Project IMPACT Depression Collaborative Technical Assistance"

This project will increase access to depression screening and treatment for underserved older adults in a primary care setting. Project Start Date: May 2011

$180,000 | 24 Months Cornell University - Weill Medical College Beverly-Xaviera Watkins "Building the Good Old Lower East Side Healthy Aging Collaborative”

Weill Medical College will collaborate with GOLES to expand the GOLES Senior Services Health Program and to build a community infrastructure in order to provide health and social services including health promotion, disease prevention, case management and counseling to Lower East Side seniors. Project Start Date: September 2011

$200,000 | 24 Months Cornell University - Weill Medical College Ronald Adelman "Developing Interdisciplinary Champions to Advance Hospital-Based Palliative Care Training”

This project would comprehensively integrate palliative care education into both nursing and social work departments at NY-Presbyterian Hospital. Project Start Date: March 2011

$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

$90,000 | 12 Months DOROT, Inc. Sara Peller "Case Assistance Social Worker Pilot Program"

This program will add a case assistance social worker to the DOROT staff, who will assist with directly helping seniors in all programs, run crisis intervention, and help seniors age in place. Project Start Date: November 2011

$184,000 | 24 Months Guardians of the Sick, Inc. Elisa Stern "Project Lev"

This project will assist elderly, childless Holocaust survivors remain in their homes by means of case management and outreach. Project Start Date: December 2009

$200,000 | 18 Months HHC Foundation of New York City Susan Cohen "Bellevue Hospital - Model Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic"

This grant will fund the expansion of the Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic, including increased staff and clinic hours. Project Start Date: May 2010

$199,000 | 23 Months HHC Foundation of New York City Lauren Shaiova “Emergency Department Palliative Care Screening Initiative at HHC's Metropolitan Hospital Center”

This program will expand palliative care services by increasing training, implementing treatment earlier and quicker, and promoting palliative care research. Project Start Date: September 2009

$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

$200,000 | 24 Months Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly Isora Bosch “Clinica Nueva Esperanza”

This program would expand the availability of mental health services to low-income older adults in Queens by adding to the clinic staff and identifying a larger patient base. Project Start Date: July 2011

$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

$150,000 | 24 Months Lifetime Arts Maura O'Malley “Creative Aging in Our Communities: The New York City Libraries Project”

This project will create instructional arts programs in libraries in order to foster creativity in older adults. Project Start Date: March 2011

$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

$155,000 | 18 Months Lutheran Family Health Center Mark Alvarado “Project IMPACT CHCANYS Depression Collaborative”

This project will increase access to depression screening and treatment for underserved older adults in a primary care setting at the Sunset Park Family Health Center. Project Start Date: May 2011

$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

$144,000 | 18 Months Medicare Rights Center, Inc. Rachel Bennett “Hospital and Community-Based Counseling and Enrollment Assistance”

This project will expand the Medicare Savings Program Enrollment project to two new hospital partners and train professionals at Community Partners sites in Medicare-related counseling and enrollment assistance. Project Start Date: February 2011

$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

$147,000 | 18 Months Morris Heights Health Center Lauren Machin “Project IMPACT CHCANYS Depression Collaborative”

This project will increase access to depression screening and treatment for underserved older adults in a primary care setting. Project Start Date: May 2011

$256,000 | 36 Months Mount Sinai Medical Center Rosanne Leipzig “Making an IMPACT: Treating Depression in an Academic Geriatric Primary Care Setting”

This program will use the IMPACT model of care in order to reach patients with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Project Start Date: December 2010

$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

$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

$195,000 | 24 Months The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens Cynthia Pan “Palliative Care Program”

This program will expand NYHQ's newly developed palliative care program by adding a full-time palliative care social worker. Project Start Date: September 2011

$200,000 | 24 Months New York Methodist Hospital Steven Silber “Palliative Care Consultation Program”

This project will develop a formal palliative care program in order to treat the symptoms of elderly patients, improve quality of life, reduce cost of care, and promote cultural transformation. Project Start Date: May 2011

$100,000 | 36 Months New York University Susan Gerbino "Fellowship in Palliative and End-of-Life-Care"

This program will provide specialized training, field placement, and mentoring in palliative care for selected second year Masters in Social Work (MSW) students. Project Start Date: September 2010

$175,000 | 24 Months New York University Mathy Mezey "Aging Gracefully at HHC: Enhancing Nurse Competencies to Care for Older Adults"

This project will continue the work of the pilot project in training nurses in geriatric health care practices, as well as create replicable models of geriatric nursing care. Project Start Date: February 2011

$130,000 | 35 Months New York University Kelley Newlin “An Innovative Model of Diabetes Self-Management Education/Training to Improve Access, Availability, & Quality of Diabetes Care for Older Adults”

This project will increase access to diabetes services, help older adults learn to self-manage the disease, and train diabetes educators on teaching self-management techniques to patients. Project Start Date: January 2011

$150,000 | 24 Months North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. Renee Pekmezaris "Telemonitoring of CHF Patients in the Community (Post-Home Care)"

This program will manage, via a telehealth model, patients who have been discharged from home care, in order to improve health and reduce readmissions. Project Start Date: February 2011

$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

$75,000 | 36 Months Search and Care, Inc. Brian Kravitz "Expanding/Refining Agency Care"

This grant will support a new care manager in order to expand the number of vulnerable elders served (predominantly in East Harlem), as well as to relieve current care manager caseloads. Project Start Date: May 2010

$294,000 | 18 Months Single Stop Julie Kashen "Linking Low-Income Seniors to Benefits and Services"

This project aims to provide a comprehensive program of benefits, supports and counseling to seniors by providing as many services as possible in one location, including financial counseling, housing assistance, legal resources, transportation and hunger relief. Project Start Date: October 2011

$225,000 | 24 Months SPOP Nancy Harvey "Homebound Mental Health Services Expansion"

This program would increase the number of homebound older adults receiving psychiatric services. Project Start Date: May 2011

$122,000 | 24 Months University Settlement Society of New York Melissa Aase "The Confucious Plaza/Chinatown NNORC Social Service Collaborative"

This grant will fund NORC related social work services and recreational programs for low-income elderly in Chinatown. Project Start Date: November 2009

$200,000 | 36 Months University Settlement Society of New York Melissa Aase "Senior HeART Program"

This grant will help to expand the scope and quality of the HeART health and wellness programs for older residents of lower Manhattan. Project Start Date: July 2010

$150,000 | 18 Months Urban Health Plan, Inc. Paloma Hernandez "Proyecto Sabiduria Expanded Case Management Program"

This grant would allow UHP to expand its case management program for elderly patients. Project Start Date: June 2010

$115,000 | 12 Months Visiting Nurse Service of New York Mia Oberlink "AdvantAge Online"

This grant will help to convert the current phone dependent AdvantAge survey into a web-based survey that will significantly lower costs and will make the survey process accessible to more communities. Project Start Date: June 2010

$150,000 | 24 Months Visiting Nurse Service of New York Mashi Blech "Community Connections TimeBank Team Leader Project"

This program would establish a volunteer team leader model for the TimeBank in order to expand seniors' access to membership services without increasing paid program staff. Project Start Date: February 2011

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