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CareSource Foundation Awards Grants
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DAYTON, Ohio, October 23, 2007 -- The CareSource Foundation, launched last June, recently announced its fifth 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 $125,000 have been granted to the following 14 organizations:
- AIDS Resource Center Ohio: $6,500 grant for the “Linkage to Care” program providing increased services and case management for HIV+ clients and people living with AIDS.
- American Red Cross, Dayton Chapter: $12,000 grant to provide disaster preparedness and relief materials, networking and volunteers for the Hispanic community.
- Boy Scouts of the Miami Valley Council: $7,500 grant for “ScoutReach” which provides scouting opportunities for urban youth in Montgomery, Miami , Darke, Preble and Shelby counties.
- Children’s Hunger Alliance: $19,000 grant to provide summer food service for children in Montgomery, Hamilton, Butler, Greene and Clark counties who qualify for free or reduced lunch programs during the school year.
- Clothes That Work: $10,000 grant to support the “Healthy Living that Works” training program that fosters both lifestyle health changes and increased employability skills.
- Day-Mont Behavioral Health Care: $5,000 grant to support additional case management services for mothers in substance abuse and mental health treatment programs.
- Eastway Corporation: $5,000 grant to support expanded nursing, psychiatric and medication-related services at the Webster Street Academy and Family Center.
- FACES of Stark County: $5,000 grant to support a “Family to Family” health advocacy program to assist families locate, prioritize and access needed social services in Stark County.
- Hospice of Dayton: $15,000 grant to provide end-of-life care for indigent women in a seven-county region.
- Miami Valley Literacy Council: $10,000 grant to support volunteer-based health screenings, preventative care and health literacy for a targeted low-income population in the Dayton region.
- Ohio Association of Free Clinics: $11,000 grant to provide professional development for Ohio’s free clinic network that includes nearly 1,200 physicians and 3,600 volunteers who service almost 100,000 individuals each year.
- Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio: $6,000 grant to support prenatal healthcare for up to 400 uninsured or underinsured women to ensure healthy deliveries.
- Samaritan Homeless Clinic: $7,000 grant to provide primary medical, dental, mental health and social services to homeless individuals in Montgomery County.
- Wilson Memorial Hospital Foundation: $6,000 grant to provide support for 800 individuals in the Diabetes Education and Medication Supplementation Program in Shelby and surrounding counties.
The CareSource Foundation was developed to provide strategic healthcare solutions for the underserved through grants, outreach, medical expertise, community partnerships and volunteerism. For more information on the foundation, visit www.caresourcefoundation.com.
About the CareSource Family of Companies
The CareSource family of companies 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 a 24-hour nurse advice line; and financial consultation and turnaround.
CareSource provides services to nonprofit managed care plans that serve more than 593,000 Medicaid consumers in Ohio and Michigan. CareSource began operating as a Medicaid managed care plan in Ohio in 1989, and currently serves more than 547,000 members in Ohio, recently having been named one of the largest and fastest-growing Medicaid managed care plans in the nation. CareSource also services Community Choice Michigan, a nonprofit Medicaid managed health care plan with more than 48,000 Medicaid consumers across the state.
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