Our Grantees

Web-based telemedicine provides services to patients and communities that do not have ready access to specialty care. This grant to Bassett Healthcare will expand a groundbreaking program using Web-based technology to improve assessment and treatment of stroke and cardiac patients in rural areas. Grant funds support remote diagnosis and evaluation of patients.

Each year 1 million New York City residents—many of whom are either uninsured or under-insured—fail to fill a prescription due to cost. Failures to adhere to medication regimens causes more than 3,000 deaths and costs billions of dollars annually. NYCRx will target this problem by expanding access to programs that offer free pharmaceuticals to clinics throughout New York City.

The childhood/adolescent obesity rate has either doubled or tripled (depending on age) over the last three decades. This grant to the Health Association of Niagara County supports a program that fights obesity in children. The long-term goal of the project is to help the children and adolescents of Niagara Falls achieve a lifetime reduction in chronic disease.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reports that almost one in three high school students in New York City is obese. Obese children are prone to serious health risks including high blood pressure and cholesterol, adult onset diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, worsening of asthma, and even obesity-related kidney, liver, and bone disease.

New York State has the highest rate of asthma incidence, morbidity, and mortality in the country. In New York City, the East Harlem community is one of the hardest-hit by asthma in both its child and adult populations.This grant to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine supports a program to improve access to high-quality asthma care for adults in this neighborhood.

Twenty-five percent of people who are infected with HIV do not know it. In fact, according to New York City health officials, each year more than 1,000 city residents find out they have HIV only when they come down with an AIDS-related illness.

More than 30% of Cayuga County’s children in grades K-3 have mental health and behavioral problems that can be effectively addressed through early intervention. This grant to Partnership for Results supports The Resilience Project: A Rural Expansion of a Mental Health Early Intervention Program for Elementary School Children.

A recent study by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that students who drink are two times more likely to be sexually active than those who do not, and Jefferson County includes two towns ranked first and fifth nationwide for the highest teen pregnancy rates in America.

Sexual assault and child abuse are tragic public health concerns that have not benefited from the kind of innovation that has improved the quality of care in so many other areas. This grant to the Southern Tier Health Care System supports an innovative program that addresses the treatment of victims of sexual abuse and violence.

Dental health care on Long Island is scarce for the 250,000 residents, including 75,000 children, who either do not have health insurance or who have insurance coverage that lacks dental health benefits.