Our Grantees

This grant to Action for a Better Community, a federally and state-designated community action agency in upstate New York, aimed to increase health insurance coverage, improve access to primary care, and coordinate health services and outreach to residents of the tri-county area of Monroe, Ontario, and Wayne Counties.

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.

This grant to Catholic Charities of Onondaga County supported the KIDS WIN! program to help combat obesity in children and youth in Syracuse, New York. Catholic Charities expected to help 1,000 kids learn how to live healthier lives through this project, an important contribution to addressing the obesity epidemic that exists in their local communities.

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.

Recent evidence indicates that 25% of older adult patients are clinically diagnosed with significant depression. At the same time, 80% of those individuals who are diagnosed with depression do not receive treatment.

This grant to Long Beach Medical Center supported the Healthy Sundays Program, a project to improve access to health information and screenings for uninsured local Hispanic/Latino communities through collaboration between community health liaisons and health professionals at two Catholic parishes.

Bushwick has the highest hospitalization rate for children with asthma in Brooklyn, four times the citywide average, and asthma is a leading cause of missed school days and hospitalizations for area children.

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 supported 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.