 Contact Program Officer Tamu Jones at (213) 413-4130 to learn more about this topic. |
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The foundation strives to ensure that low-income adults and children have access to regular, sustainable, affordable and quality health care.
Goals:
- Ensure that community clinics are able to serve as a system of care for the underserved and uninsured.
- Increase access to a regular source of preventive care and treatment services for uninsured adults.
- Expand health care coverage for all uninsured children.
Objectives:
- Increase the sustainability of community clinics by enhancing management capacity, increasing quality services and improving clinic executive leadership skills.
- Enhance coordination among community clinics to address concerns about the outpatient health care safety. (Safety-net providers are those that depend on local, state and federal funds and provide care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay.)
- Increase community awareness of health care safety net issues by supporting focused analysis and advocacy efforts that can achieve meaningful policy changes.
- Increase the number of low-income children who have health care coverage by supporting outreach, education and enrollment efforts that target these children.
- Improve health for underserved people with conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and pediatric asthma.
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Priorities:
- Efforts that serve federally designated Medically Underserved Areas or Health Professional Shortage Areas, and that deliver comprehensive health services (e.g., medical, dental, mental health, etc.) to low-income and underserved populations.
- Efforts that enroll people in health care coverage and connect them with a source of regular care.
- Efforts that integrate strong prevention and early intervention strategies into their health services.
- Requests that clearly demonstrate knowledge of the health conditions that affect the specific population to be served.
Centinela Medical Funds
The Centinela Medical Care Fund and Centinela Medica Community Fund support eligible hospitals and community-based organizations that provide health care, medically-related services and health education to economically disadvantaged residents in the Centinela Valley and surrounding areas.
Priorities include access to primary, specialty, diagnostic and inpatient care for medically indigent children, elderly and vulnerable adults; prevention, education, early detection and control of chronic medical conditions and diseases; and increased enrollment and retention of health care coverage. Applications are solicited through a separate Request for Proposal process. Click here for more information about the Centinela Medical Funds.
Contact Program Officer Tamu Jones at (213) 413-4130 for more information about this program..
Grantees (June 2007-July 2008)
Organization |
Award Date |
Grant Amount |
Geographic Area Served |
Purpose |
| Children's Clinic |
3/19/2008 |
$100,000 |
Greater Long Beach |
Two-year core operating support to provide preventive and primary health care to more than 16,000 primarily low-income, Latino families annually in the Greater Long Beach area. |
| Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles |
3/19/2008 |
$150,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Two-year core operating support to a countywide trade association that provides technical assistance to its 43- member community clinics that serve more than 628,000 primarily low-income, medically indigent patients annually throughout Los Angeles. |
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10/3/2007 |
$160,000 |
San Fernando |
Two-year core operating support to provide primary, specialty, and dental care services to 31,600 primarily low-income Latino and Armenian residents of Glendale, North Hollywood, Highland Park and Eagle Rock. |
| Korean Health Education, Information & Research Center |
3/19/2008 |
$125,000 |
Metro L.A. |
Two-year core operating support to provide primary health care, social services and adult day health care services to 75,000 primarily Korean and Latino immigrants in Koreatown and Mid-Wilshire areas (SPA 4) and portions of the South Bay (SPA 8). |
| National Health Foundation |
8/29/2007 |
$25,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Support training that increases capacity of application assistors to help uninsured families obtain, retain and use children's health insurance. |
| South Bay Family Healthcare Center |
3/19/2008 |
$300,000 |
South Bay/Harbor area |
One-year core operating support to provide 14,500 primary care patient visits to residents of the South Los Angeles, South Bay, and Harbor Gateway communities of Los Angeles County (SPA 6 and SPA 8). |
| Venice Family Clinic |
3/19/2008 |
$128,000 |
West L.A. County |
One-year capacity building support to purchase and install a new practice management system. |
Total grants |
$1,088,000 |
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