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Foundation Awards 2nd Quarter Grants
DAYTON, Ohio, July 17, 2008 -- The CareSource Foundation recently announced its latest 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 12 organizations:
- Adventures for Wish Kids: $5,000 grant to provide “wishes” for families of children with life-threatening illness.
- American Diabetes Association of Southwest Ohio: $5,000 grant to support Camp Korelitz for children with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
- Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence: $15,000 grant to provide advocacy, counseling and family services for victims of domestic violence.
- Butler County Community Health Consortium: $10,000 grant to subsidize healthcare for 40,000 medically uninsured individuals in Hamilton and Middletown.
- Children’s Medical Center Dayton: $25,000 grant so support Project BREATHE in-home asthma assessment and management program
- Diabetes Association of the Dayton Area: $5,000 grant to support nutrition, weight management and disease control resources for children with diabetes
- Kettering Medical Center Foundation: $15,000 grant to support the Women’s Wellness Fund including mammograms for the uninsured/underserved.
- Miami Valley Hospital Foundation: $10,000 grant to support “Heartworks for Women” targeting high-risk populations and assisting with diagnosis of cardiovascular issues.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Miami Valley Chapter: $5,000 grant to provide educational and financial resources for individuals with MS in a 24-county region.
- Toledo-Lucas County CareNet: $15,000 grant to support safety-net medical services for low-income, uninsured residents.
- Transitional Housing, Inc.: $5,000 grant to support an integrated system of care for homeless women and children.
- Viola Startzman Free Clinic: $10,000 grant to provide free-clinic services for low-income residents of Wayne County, Ohio.
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 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 660,000 Medicaid and special needs consumers in Ohio and Michigan. For more information about CareSource, visit www.csmg-online.com. |