These items recently came across my desk, and I thought they were interesting enough to point out now, in case you missed them.
Happy Holidays to all of our GrantWatch readers and thank you for your interest in health philanthropy.
Health Care for the Homeless
"The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust Gives LVHN [Lehigh Valley Health Network] $200,000 for Street Medicine Program," December 2015 press release. Read about a physician assistant (PA) with the Lehigh Valley Health Network, in Pennsylvania, who is serving the homeless people in his area. Brett Feldman is one of sixty "street medicine" practitioners in the United States, who offer "unconventional, yet essential care" to people in "society's most needy and underserved population." It's a fascinating and heartwarming story! The Pool Trust, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, recognized the work being done by the young clinician's program, in which 100 people work. One of the objectives of the Pool trust's two-year grant for the program is to find new ways to provide mental health/behavioral health services to that area's homeless population.
Read "Addressing Homelessness among People with Mental Illnesses: A Model of Long-Term Philanthropic Effectiveness," by Ruth Tebbets Brousseau, independent consultant, GrantWatch, May/June 2009 Health Affairs. This peer-reviewed article discusses work funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
Nurses
Assessing Progress on the Institute of Medicine [IOM] Report The Future of Nursing, IOM, released December 4. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), which funded the new report, had "asked the IOM to convene a committee to examine changes in the field of nursing since the release of the [2010] Future of Nursing report and to assess progress made in implementing [that] report's recommendations," according to the Report in Brief. Following publication of the 2010 report, AARP and the RWJF established the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action initiative to shepherd that report's recommendations. The IOM committee for the new report identifies ten areas that should be emphasized to accelerate implementation of the 2010 report's recommendations. Among the panel's conclusions is the following: "The nursing community, including the Campaign, must build and strengthen coalitions with stakeholders both within and outside of nursing." (Stuart Altman chaired the committee; other members included Karen Donelan, Jack Needleman, and George Thibault, president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.)
Read abstracts of recent Health Affairs GrantWatch peer-reviewed articles on nurses:
"Round Six of Partners Investing in Nursing's Future: Implications for the Health Sector, Policy Makers, and Foundations," by Paul S. Jellinek, independent consultant, and coauthors, July 2015 issue.
"Engaging Front-Line Nurses to Improve the Outcomes of Patient Care, 2006–13," by Marybeth Sharpe of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, December 2015 issue.
Patient Engagement
"Foundations Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients Nationwide: Four Foundations Jointly Fund Three-Year, $10 Million Expansion of the OpenNotes Movement," press release, December 15. The Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare (established by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation), and RWJF jointly announced this new funding for OpenNotes, "a national initiative that urges doctors and other clinicians to offer patients ready access to their visit notes," says the release. Experts have said that ensuring access to these notes "can prompt patients to be more active in their own health and health care, and greater patient engagement can contribute to better outcomes and reduced cost" throughout the health care system.
Read a GrantWatch blog post about OpenNotes: "Opening Up Clinicians' Notes: The Robert Wood Johnson And Cambia Health Foundations Funding A Movement," by Steve Downs and Steve Lesky, May 5, 2014.
Philanthropy
"What Should Philanthropy Do?" by Kristin Jones of the Colorado Trust on its blog, December 4. Using as a jumping-off point the Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook) and wife, Priscilla Chan (physician), announcement on December 1 that they would be donating 99 percent of their Facebook stock shares to charity while they are still alive, Jones writes about the questions that this news has raised, particularly among skeptics of Zuckerberg and Chan's approach. (By the way, the stock was valued at approximately $45 billion when the original announcement was made in the form of a letter to the couple's daughter! And among the areas the couple plans to fund is curing disease.) Blogger Kristin Jones comments, "At the heart of all of these critiques [of the Zuckerberg/Chan plan] is a simple one: Philanthropy—especially the kind practiced by deep-pocketed billionaires—has too much power."
What do you think? Let Jones know by submitting a comment to the Colorado Trust's blog.
And read in her post about how the trust, a statewide funder based in Denver with a focus on health equity, has been trying "to upend some of the traditional rules of engagement in philanthropy."
from Health Affairs Blog http://ift.tt/1Jwjm4l
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