A Higher Level of Care
Recent Grant Awards We thank the following foundations and agencies for their support of St. Joseph’s mission and services: New York State Department of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a three-year, $1.9 million grant to St. Joseph’s Hospital under the Hospital-Medical Home Demonstration Program. The purpose of the program is to support teaching hospitals as they work to improve coordination, continuity and quality of care for Medicaid beneficiaries by transforming their outpatient primary care training sites into high-quality patient-centered medical homes (PCMH). Providing a framework for the delivery of primary care that emphasizes team-based, evidenceand data-informed, continuous care, a PCMH aims to deliver high-quality preventive and chronic care consistent with improving health, health care and reducing costs. Funding will be used for a variety of activities, including practice redesign; curriculum development/residency training in medical home protocols; resident integration into existing infection prevention initiatives; workforce development, retraining and retooling; personnel; and other expenses associated with program implementation. New York State Department of Health awarded a grant of $40,000 to St. Joseph’s for bioterrorism preparedness. This funding will be used to continue to strengthen the hospital’s ability to respond to the threats of bioterrorism through the purchase of equipment, supplies and training. NYSERDA has approved a $2 million incentive to St. Joseph’s combined heat and power (CHP) plant project which is scheduled to begin later this year. Providing an efficient way to keep energy costs down by generating power, reducing demand from the electric grid and recapturing waste heat for other uses, the $15 million plant will provide a majority of St. Joseph’s electricity needs, as well as steam and hot water. National Grid and onsite boilers will continue to provide for the hospital’s supplemental needs. The adoption of CHP can provide energy supply reliability, environmental benefits and predictable energy costs. St. Joseph’s Lymphedema Program has been awarded $30,199 from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Central New York Affiliate for the LEAP from Stage 0 program. LEAP from Stage 0 works to prevent, delay and reduce the progression of lymphedema that may occur as a result of breast cancer treatment.
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“Komen Central New York is so pleased to be able to fund LEAP from Stage 0 once again. Many of our supporters have gone through this program and have found that, with proper care and treatment, their lymphedema was treated and controlled so as not to progress further. Breast cancer survivors often tell us that education from the very beginning prevented anxiety and was invaluable.” — Livvy Kronhaus, Director of Education, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Central New York Affiliate
A $10,000 grant award from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is helping to fund the recently launched Health Train, a collaboration between St. Joseph’s Hospital and the Northside Urban Partnership (Northside UP). Health Train is a workforce development program designed to prepare un- and underemployed community members from the city’s North Side for entrylevel positions at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center and, eventually, other healthcare employers. Many participants are recent immigrants and refugees who face a variety of barriers to overcoming the already difficult challenges of poverty. Delivered in five stages— recruitment, screening, healthcare readiness, internship and career support, Health Train has been designed to help program participants get into a stable, full-time, livable wage situation with the hospital. This will allow them to take advantage of St. Joseph’s tuition reimbursement program to obtain additional schooling, advance their healthcare careers and enhance their quality of life. “Helping individuals obtain the education and training that they need for 21st century jobs, as well as access to job opportunities, is critical to our national economic recovery. That’s why Bank of America is proud to partner with St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center to extend vital services to those who need them most.” — Michael Brunner, Bank of America Syracuse/Utica Market President
One in five children and adolescents in the U.S. experiences mental health problems and up to half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by the age of 14. Through a $2,000 grant award from RBC Foundation–USA, the KIDS Prevention Series at St. Joseph’s will engage families through education on significant “hot topics” such as bullying, school anxiety, the impact of texting, social media, and drug and alcohol use and experimentation, thereby promoting prevention
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