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CareSource Foundation Awards Grants
DAYTON
, Ohio, April 4, 2007 -- The CareSource Foundation, launched last June, recently announced its third round of health care grant awards. The Foundation focuses funding on four key areas including issues of the uninsured, critical health trends, community health issues and broad collaboration with other organizations and funders. Awards totaling $130,000 have been granted to the following 14 organizations:
- Akron Children’s Hospital: $20,000 grant to implement “The Ultimate Wellness Challenge” child obesity prevention program.
- Columbus Children’s Hospital: $20,000 grant to support a nurse-family partnership program designed to improve the health and self-sufficiency of underserved, low-income, first-time mothers and their children.
- Diabetes Association of Dayton: $6,000 grant to fund the emergency supply pantry and diabetes education programs throughout the Dayton region.
- Fundamental Health Solutions: $6,000 grant to fund programming for the Linda Vista Project which provides resources, emergency services and long-term success plans for homeless women and children.
- March of Dimes Foundation: $10,000 grant to assist health care practitioners in decreasing premature births, expand education and advocate expanding access to health coverage.
- Mid-Ohio Food Bank: $7,500 grant to help distribute over 30 million pounds of food to 552 food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters throughout Ohio.
- OhioHealth Foundation: $20,000 grant to support Wellness on Wheels (WOW) which provides mobile healthcare for over 11,000 lower-income students and families in the Columbus region.
- Rebuilding Together Dayton: $4,000 grant to assist low-come Dayton homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children.
- Ronald McDonald House of the Miami Valley Region: $6,000 grant to provide short-term housing and financial support to the families of children with long-term illnesses.
- South Community: $4,000 grant to implement mentoring and social skills programming for children with behavioral health needs.
- Suicide Prevention Center: $2,500 grant to support the “Project Lifesaver” in-school suicide awareness, screening and intervention program.
- ThinkTV Greater Dayton Public Television: $10,000 grant to support the “Speaking of Women’s Health” conference in Dayton, September 15, 2007.
- Wellness Connection of Dayton: $4,000 grant to support the client advocacy program which assists low-income and uninsured individuals to obtain health, wellness, and prescription services.
- Youth Challenge: $10,000 grant to provide adaptive sports and recreational therapy for children with physical disabilities.
- Wright-Dunbar Business Village: $11,000 grant to help attract and retain healthcare providers in the Wright-Dunbar community health cluster.
- YMCA of Greater Dayton: $20,000 grant for the “Healthy Youth” program designed to education young people on childhood health trends including juvenile diabetes, asthma and obesity.
The CareSource Foundation was developed to provide strategic healthcare solutions for the underserved through grants, outreach, medical expertise, community partnerships and volunteerism. In 2006, during its first year, the Foundation awarded $275,000 in grants throughout Ohio.
About CareSource Management Group
CareSource Management Group offers a full spectrum of services for the administration of public-sector health care programs. Among these services are general administration, including claims processing, case and medical management, provider relations, decision support informatics, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance; member services, including a member call center and 24-hour nurse advice line; and financial consultation and turnaround.
CareSource Management Group also provides services to nonprofit managed care plans that serve more than 520,000 Medicaid consumers in Ohio. The company also administers Community Choice Michigan, a nonprofit managed care plan serving more than 50,000 Medicaid consumers in Michigan.
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