Grantees

Supported the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence in improving transitions of care by strengthening home health nursing clinical and leadership competencies, and putting in place quality and patient safety improvements.

Expanded medical services to serve as a medical home for low-income and homeless clients and meet the criteria necessary to pursue designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center.

Support for an internship position in research, evaluation and strategic learning.

Supported the Colorado Nonprofit Association‘s Fiscal Education Project, helping nonprofit organizations in Colorado better educate their constituencies and the broader population about Colorado’s fiscal challenges.

Funded the development of an interactive web-based map of health care coverage outreach and enrollment strategies in Colorado to identify gaps, support referrals to enrollment services and provide stakeholders with a dynamic, state-level analysis of outreach resources.

Provided support services that enabled and encouraged private obstetrical and family practices to provide comprehensive prenatal care to publicly insured pregnant women.

Supported Regis University efforts to prepare practicing nurses to work with other health care professionals toward more efficient, effective and interdisciplinary health care systems—from assessing and improving quality of care to improving health outcomes, shaping health care policy, and developing new models of health care delivery.

Developed and implemented a statewide train-the-trainer and toolkit model to promote and support use of the new Colorado Program Eligibility and Application Kit (PEAK), an online application to help individuals and families apply online for medical and food assistance benefits.

Supported the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment‘s Colorado Health Service Corps Educational Loan Forgiveness program (Office of Primary Care), to improve the health of Colorado’s underserved and vulnerable populations by alleviating health disparities resulting from a shortage of primary health care professionals. This purpose was achieved in part by repaying all or a portion of the educational loan debt of primary care health professionals who agreed to practice in a community with a known shortage of providers for a period of service.

Through a combination of communications, advocacy, leadership, media and network-building efforts, Project Health Colorado helped to increase awareness, understanding and support for making health coverage and health care work better for every Coloradan. This effort to build public will for improved access to health blended grassroots strategies and an overarching communications campaign. Project Health Colorado also included a rigorous, independent evaluation plan to gauge progress toward the overall intended outcomes of the strategy. Learn more.