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"The Regence Foundation is committed to funding organizations working tobuild healthy communities," said Michael Alexander, Regence Foundation boardchair. "Connecting people without a medical home or health insurance toquality, affordable care is one of the most important things we can do towardthat goal."
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-- Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (Boise, ID): $129,000 to expandmedical staff and hours of service at the Garden City Community Clinic, a freeclinic operating in Garden City, Idaho. The clinic is the only primary careprovider in Garden City and is open just two evenings per week.
-- Community-Minded Enterprises (Spokane, WA): $50,000 to help matchuninsured individuals and families with health insurance programs to getcoverage. The program is unique in that it proactively seeks to reach theuninsured before they face a health care crisis.
-- King County Project Access (Seattle, WA): $35,000 to expand access tospecialty care for the working poor in King County. KCPA facilitates thecounty's only specialty care safety net services, such as neurology,cardiology, orthopedic surgery and ophthalmology.
-- Franciscan Foundation (Tacoma, WA): $31,000 to expand the Foundation'sBreast Cancer Navigator Program to reach Latinas. The program will work toreduce the risk of breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer death forLatinas, through cultural and language appropriate outreach.
-- Umpqua Community Health Center (Roseburg, OR): $30,000 to open a newmedical clinic in the community of Myrtle Creek, where poverty and geographicisolation exacerbate the challenge uninsured community members face whenseeking affordable health care.
-- Utah Partners in Health (Magna, UT): $25,600 to provide uninsuredresidents access to care, funding 865 patient visits to one of Utah Partnersin Health's 11 member clinics.
-- Olympic Community Action Programs (Port Angeles, WA): $25,000 tosupport new, permanent dental clinics in three communities currently served bymobile dental vans.
-- Mercy Foundation (Roseburg, OR): $20,000 to put registered nurses inrural schools to provide basic health education and health care to students.In this county about half of children lack health insurance and live at orbelow 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
"At The Regence Foundation, our goal is to drive meaningful change in thehealth care system," said Monique Barton, Regence Foundation executivedirector. "We do that by forging lasting relationships with nonprofits whoshare our vision of transforming health care and building healthiercommunities."
The grants were funded through The Regence Fund at The Oregon CommunityFoundation. For more information about The Regence Foundation, please visithttp://www.regencefoundation.org.
About The Regence Foundation
The Regence Foundation is the corporate foundation of The Regence Group,the largest health insurer in the Northwest/Intermountain region and anot-for-profit independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue ShieldAssociation. A 501(c)3 grantmaking organization, the Foundation partners withorganizations driving significant change in health care delivery andaccessibility in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Starting in late 2008,the Foundation will also partner with organizations addressing end-of-lifeissues.
SOURCE The Regence Foundation
