JAHF Board of Trustees Approve Six Grants Totaling More Than $10 Million
The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) Board of Trustees has approved six grants totaling $10,285,024 for projects focused on improving the health of older adults by: aligning care with patient goals; improving geriatric surgical care; supporting educational sessions and reports for federal policymakers; developing an implementation plan for a geriatrics co-management intervention for hip fracture patients; expanding the Y-USA’s Diabetes Prevention Program; and enhancing efforts to spread evidence-based depression treatment to the rural northwest.
The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) Board of Trustees has approved six grants totaling $10,285,024 for projects focused on improving the health of older adults by: aligning care with patient goals; improving geriatric surgical care; supporting educational sessions and reports for federal policymakers; developing an implementation plan for a geriatrics co-management intervention for hip fracture patients; expanding the Y-USA’s Diabetes Prevention Program; and enhancing efforts to spread evidence-based depression treatment to the rural northwest.
The board approved a $3,889,741 three-year renewal award to implement and test the Carealign model for “patient goals-directed” care within ProHealth, a large primary care group serving the state of Connecticut. The prototyping phase will seek to implement care focused on patient outcome goals and care preferences across primary and specialty practice; produce preliminary evidence for this model; and build awareness and demand through stakeholder engagement. The board also approved $2,969,605 for four years to the American College of Surgeons to develop a standards and verification program for hospitals that will produce a framework for improved geriatric surgical care, generalizable to all hospitals regardless of size, location, or population served.
In partnership with The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees renewed support for the non-partisan, Washington, DC-based National Health Policy Forum with a $1,300,000, three-year grant to help fund at least seven educational sessions or reports each year that will focus largely on alternative payment models and quality and value initiatives that affect older adults, along with a series of basic health policy sessions for new congressional staff in 2017. The board also approved a $399,512, one-year planning grant to the American Geriatrics Society to support the development of a viable business strategy and implementation plan for a Geriatrics-Orthopedic Co-management Intervention that evidence indicates will greatly improve care and outcomes for older adults hospitalized with hip fractures.
Y-USA, the national office of the YMCA, has been awarded $860,500 for two years to help expand its Diabetes Prevention Program with a focus on older adults. Y-USA is currently the largest deliverer of interventions under the National Diabetes Prevention Program, an initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the board also renewed its commitment to spread the IMPACT/Collaborative Care model of depression treatment in primary care in the rural northwest through the federal Social Innovation Fund program with an $865,666, three-year grant to the University of Washington’s Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center.
