An Assessment of New York Health Foundation 2007 Health Insurance Coverage Grants
This NYHealth special report, An Assessment of New York Health Foundation 2007 Health Insurance Coverage Grants, summarizes enrollment results, project deliverables, and overall project outcomes.Funding Area
Expanding Health Care Coverage
Publication Date
March 2011
This NYHealth special report, An Assessment of New York Health Foundation 2007 Health Insurance Coverage Grants, summarizes enrollment results, project deliverables, and overall project outcomes of a grant initiative that sought organizations across the State to develop interventions that would improve the State’s enrollment and reenrollment processes, and that would help increase health care coverage for vulnerable populations.
This initiative also aimed to expand private insurance coverage for the 1.6 million uninsured New Yorkers, at the time, who were not eligible for public coverage.
Although overall enrollment outcomes from the funded projects were disappointing, some of the deliverables that emerged from this cohort of grants are potentially informative to Federal health reform efforts. All 16 grants cited in this report offer lessons in grantmaking, as well as in the types of projects they undertook.
You can view these 16 grants below.
Outcomes and Lessons Learned
- Adirondack Medical Center: The Tri-Lakes Uninsured Task Force
- Brooklyn Alliance, Inc.: Brooklyn HealthWorks
- Children’s Defense Fund: Increasing Enrollment and Retention in New York’s Public Health Insurance Programs
- Community Health Care Association of New York State, Inc.: Community Health Center Immigrant Outreach Project
- Empire Justice Center, Inc.: Community Health Law Collaborative
- Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc.: Expanding Health Care Enrollment for New York Artists and Arts Groups
- Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, Inc.: The Long Island Health Care Coalition
- Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality: Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in New York State: Streamlining Facilitated Enrollment and Development of Web-Based Eligibility Assessment
- Make The Road New York: Increasing Immigrant Enrollment in Public Insurance Programs Through Targeted Education, Outreach, and Direct Assistance in 10 Languages
- NYC Human Resources Administration’s Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access (OCHIA): Increasing Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Wage Workers in New York City’s Small Businesses
- Medicare Rights Center: Community MAP: Medicare/Medicaid Assistance Project for the Southeast Bronx
- New York Health Plan Association Council, Inc.: Westchester & Otsego Counties Healthy NY Expansion Demonstration
- PHI: Quality Care through Quality Jobs: Expanding Affordable Coverage to New York State’s Direct-Care Workers
- Public Health Solutions: Open This Envelope, Stay Covered
- Research Foundation of SUNY – University of Buffalo Department of Family Medicine: Addressing Cultural & Linguistic Barriers to Facilitated Enrollment
- St. Lawrence County Health Initiative and St. Lawrence County Public Health Department: Insurance Coverage