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CareSource Foundation Awards
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Contact: Michelle Chapman at (937) 531-2910 or michelle.chapman@csmg-online.com or
Kristin Kopp at (937) 531-2273 or kristin.kopp@csmg-online.com
CareSource Foundation Awards Grants
DAYTON, Ohio, December 22, 2008 -- The CareSource Foundation recently announced its last round of health grant awards for 2008. The Foundation focuses funding on three key areas including issues of the uninsured, critical trends in children’s health, and community health issues. Awards totaling $51,000 have been granted to the following 20 organizations:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters: $7,500 grant to support at-risk and expanded community and school-based mentoring
- Camp Emanuel: $5,000 grant to support resident day camp experience for hearing impaired, language-challenged and developmentally disabled children in southwest Ohio
- CARE Columbus: $3,000 grant to increase quality of care and eliminate health disparities in target ethnic and geographic populations in the greater Columbus area
- Elizabeth’s New Life Center: $5,000 grant to support comprehensive prenatal care for young, low-income women in the greater Dayton region
- Holmes & Wayne County United Way: $5,000 grant to provide Rx mobile outreach for the elderly, disabled, low-income and uninsured in north central Ohio
- Lower Lights Health Center: $5,000 grant to support ongoing operations of critical health center staff for families in need and uninsured individuals in greater Columbus
- Mercy Neighborhood Ministries: $3,000 grant to increase health and prevent disease for African-American senior adults in greater Cincinnati
- Mom’s House Toledo: $2,500 grant to provide healthy meals for at-risk children in the greater Toledo area
- Safe Harbor Runaway Youth Shelter: $2,500 grant to support operations of the only homeless youth facility serving the Lima region
- We Care Arts: $5,000 grant to support job and life skills programs for people with disabilities in Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties
- Womanline of Dayton: $7,500 grant to support the “I Can Tell” sexual abuse detection and prevention program
The CareSource Foundation was developed to provide strategic healthcare solutions for the underserved through grants, outreach, medical expertise, community partnerships and volunteerism. The Foundation will be launching new priority funding areas for 2009 including signature grants focused on the uninsured and healthy lifestyles/childhood obesity. For more information on the foundation, visit www.caresourcefoundation.com.
About CareSource
CareSource 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 also provides services to nonprofit managed care plans that serve over 691,000 Medicaid and Medicare special needs consumers in Ohio and Michigan. For more information about CareSource, visit www.caresource.com.
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