IV. Grants
1990; Project HOPE; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Catalão
10.1377/hlthaff.9.1.153
ISSN2694-233X
Tópico(s)Healthcare innovation and challenges
ResumoGrantWatch Health AffairsVol. 9, No. 1 IV. GrantsPUBLISHED:Spring 1990Free Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.9.1.153AboutSectionsView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsDownload Exhibits AbstractIndependent foundations' primary focus is grant making. In general, their assets come from the gift of an individual or family. Community foundations' assets usually come from many donors rather than a single source, and grant making is limited to a particular region. Community foundations are usually classified as private charities under the tax law and are subject to different rules and regulations than are other private foundations.TOPICSGrantsHIV/AIDSPublic healthPhysiciansMedical educationEducationClinicsPrimary careElderly careChildren's healthAccess To CareAccording to 1988 Census Bureau estimates, over thirty-one million Americans are without health insurance. Foundations have funded efforts to improve access to care, ranging from economic analyses of the problem to direct provision of care.Independent Foundation Grants:American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Washington, DC. This grant will expand efforts to enroll elderly and disabled persons in Medicaid, food stamps, and Low Income Energy Assistance in ten demonstration sites that are conducting Supplemental Security Income outreach projects. AARP will hold a national conference in February 1991 to discuss opportunities to institutionalize these outreach efforts. These Public Benefits Outreach projects are supported by The Commonwealth Fund Commission On Elderly People Living Alone, which receives support from The Commonwealth Fund. $295,000 over eighteen months. Funded by The Commonwealth Fund.1989 Community Priorities Program. Funding will help twenty-eight community organizations to address their communities' most pressing problems. These grants are made under the Gannett Foundation's annual competition program, which supports projects in such areas as health, social services, substance abuse, child abuse, child care, homelessness and affordable housing, education, and teen pregnancy. $2.5 million over one year. Funded by the Gannett Foundation. Selected grants: Children's Clinic, Fort Collins, CO. $80,000 over one year for a primary care clinic to provide treatment and referral for children from uninsured families. Connecticut AIDS Residence Program, New Haven, CT. $98,000 over one year to support an intermediate care and skilled nursing home for people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL. $135,000 over one year for a mobile health clinic serving low-income uninsured people. St. Cloud Hospital, St Cloud, MN. $115,000 over one year to the Mid-Minnesota Health Clinic to provide primary health care to uninsured people. United Way of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie, NY. $150,000 over one year to coordinate local AIDS services and establish a residence for persons with AIDS. Community Foundation Grants:Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York, New York, NY. This grant will support a pilot program to increase Medicaid enrollment among students in six New York City schools. Presbyterian Hospital and the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University will manage the project on behalf of school-based health clinics. Outreach workers will work with these clinics to identify those eligible for Medicaid, help process Medicaid applications, and evaluate the project's effectiveness in generating revenue for the clinics. $60,000 over eighteen months. Funded by The New York Community Trust.AIDSAlthough foundations tend to avoid disease-specific giving, the immediate threat posed by AIDS has caused many foundations to redefine their grant-making policies. A 1988 report found that the level of giving for AIDS research and education has topped $51 million.Independent Foundation Grants:Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services (CARES), Sacramento, CA. Funding will support CARES, an outpatient medical center, in developing a model of medical treatment for persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS. In collaboration with the Sacramento AIDS Foundation, CARES provides case management services. Center services also include medical evaluation, AIDS education and counseling, and referral services. Staffed by physicians and other health professionals, the center is available to help local private physicians treat their patients. CARES also serves as an AIDS resource center for communities in northern California. It receives funding from the state of California; Sacramento-area hospitals have contributed $100,000 in matching grants. $125,000 over one year. Funded by The Sierra Foundation.Health Care For The ElderlyBy the year 2000,13 percent of the U.S. population will be over age sixty-five. Planning for the financing and delivery of acute and long-term care for an aging society is a priority for both private and public funders.Independent Foundation Grants:Pasadena Hospital Association-Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA. Funding will support the implementation of phase II of a service program providing life care at home for functionally well elderly, ages fifty and older. The program, managed by the Senior Care Network, will provide in-home support services linked with case management, financed by a group insurance policy. A feasibility study of insurance plans for in-home support services was conducted under phase I of the program. $550,003 over two years. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Community Foundation Grants:Menorah Park Jewish Home for the Aged, Cleveland, OH. This grant will support the Applied Research Institute to study a restraint-free environment in two Cleveland-area nursing homes. The study will examine whether liberating the elderly from restraints leads to the same, better, or worse health and social outcomes and to changes in staffing patterns and attitudes. The nursing homes will receive assistance from a team of consultants from the Pennsylvania-based Kendal at Longwood nursing home, which has had a no-restraint policy since it opened seventeen years ago. $95,459 over two years. Funded by The Cleveland Foundation.Health Care FinanceAccording to the Health Care Financing Administration, in 1987 the United States spent $500 billion on health, or 11.1 percent of the gross national product. Health costs continue to rise much faster than the overall inflation rate. Foundations have funded various experiments that use alternative delivery systems to provide cost-effective care.Independent Foundation Grants:Center for Policy Studies, Minneapolis, MN. This grant will support research and policy analysis to improve the organization and financing of the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association (MCHA), a state health insurance risk pool program for medically high-risk persons. The center will examine the affordability and adequacy of MCHA coverage, evaluate alternative financing arrangements, design case management services and evaluate additional methods to manage costs and outcomes, and develop strategies to improve health insurance and employment opportunities for medically high-risk workers in small firms. $200,000 over two years. Funded by the Northwest Area Foundation.Program to Strengthen Primary Care Health Centers. This program aims to increase the self-sufficiency of not-for-profit primary care health centers located in communities with limited resources. It provides assistance to improve financial planning, management strategy, patient volume, and revenues to ensure future financial viability. This national program, begun in 1988 by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with technical assistance from the National Association of Community Health Centers, will fund twenty health centers. $2 million over three years. Funded by The Robert Wood]ohnson Foundation. Selected grants: Lewis County Primary Care Center, Vanceburg, KY. $43,651 over two years to develop and implement strategies to expand services by recruiting a physician and maximizing third-party insurance payments. Migrant Council of Henderson County, Hendersonville, NC. $99,999 over three years to develop marketing and management strategies for migrant populations. Wewahitchka Medical Center, Wewahitchka, FL. $99,998 over three years to expand efforts to enroll retirees and dependents from a local Air Force base and to develop a computerized billing system. State of New York, Department of Social Services, Albany, NY. Funding will support a public/private partnership to provide elderly New Yorkers with private insurance for long-term care. Under the program, insurance plans will offer elderly people three years of long-term care services. Once the insurance coverage is exhausted, the state will begin Medicaid coverage to provide continued long-term care. An individual's assets are protected under the program as well. “Since neither the public nor the private sector can solve this [long-term care] problem alone, the foundation is acting as a catalyst to forge... partnership[s],” Leighton E. Cluff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president, said. $1.7 million over three years. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Health Professions EducationHow health personnel are trained is crucial to effective health care delivery. Medical school curricula, the shortage of nurses, and the disproportionately few minorities in health professions are some issues receiving foundation support.Independent Foundation Grants:Association of North Carolina Boards of Health, Pittsboro, NC. This grant will support a program to help board of health members participate in public health and community planning. The program will train public health leaders and improve problem-solving skills of local policymakers. The program also will explore ways to improve links between local health departments and other human services providers. $310,31 1 over three years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Duke University, Durham, NC. Funding will help establish the Commission on the Future of the Health Professions. The scope of the commission's activity is broad: (1) to advance the understanding of changes to the nation's health care system; (2) to identify forces that reflect future trends confronting the health professions; (3) to identify emerging issues for health professional schools; and (4) to make recommendations to federal and state agencies, accreditation organizations, professional associations, and philanthropy. Commission members represent business, higher education institutions, government, and the health professions. $2.9 million over three years. Funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.National Public Health and Hospital Institute, Washington, DC. This grant will support the National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH) Management Fellowship program. The program, initiated in 1988, prepares senior-level administrators to become public hospital leaders. Participants attend national meetings and a seven-day educational seminar and develop independent research projects that address critical issues related to their hospital experience. Project summaries are disseminated to NAPH member hospitals and others. The program is conducted in collaboration with New York University's Graduate School of Public Administration. $300,000 over two years. Funded by The Few Charitable Trusts.Salish Kootenai College, Flathead Indian Reservation, Pablo, MT. This grant will support efforts to improve primary health care for Native Americans by recruiting and training Native American students in nursing associate degree programs and dentistry programs. Funding also will provide stipends to nursing students, travel assistance to clinic sites, and counseling and tutoring. $964,044 over four years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. This grant will support advanced training in clinical and basic research methods for geriatric physicians. The goal is to enable them to become researchers on the aging syndromes, including conditions such as falling, fainting, and incontinence, and to become faculty members to train future geriatric physicians. Funding also will strengthen geriatrics syndromes research in Stanford's Division of Gerontology. $200,000 over three years. Funded by The Charles A. Dana Foundation.University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Funding will support the “On Job/On Campus” program, a nonresidential master's degree in public health policy and administration is for health professionals who remain employed while participating in the program. Intensive four-day weekend classes are scheduled every four weeks for a total of twenty-four meetings to serve senior-level state and local public health officials, community health program directors, health professionals, attorneys, and others with public policy and health experience. Students will receive training in conflict resolution and resource allocation issues. $487,545 over four years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Health Promotion/Disease PreventionPreventable illness and injury claim over a million American lives each year. In 1986, over twelve million potential years of productive life were lost, costing the nation hundreds of billions of dollars. As these huge costs become apparent, foundations are promoting healthy behavior.Independent Foundation Grants:Georgia Planning Group for Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA. Funding will support model health promotion programs in areas including drug abuse and teenage pregnancy in at least twenty minority and poor communities throughout Georgia. Funding will support activities of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Human Resources, and other agencies. The program is based at the Health Promotion Resource Center, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine. $450,000 over three years. Funded by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.Girls Club of America, New York, NY. Funding will support “Teen Connections,” a health information and training program to improve the health of at-risk black, Hispanic, and Native American adolescent females in Birmingham, Alabama; Puget Sound, Washington; Rapid City, South Dakota; and the Bronx, New York. The program aims to promote physical fitness, prevent substance abuse, encourage healthy nutritional habits, and reduce stress. Local coordinating councils will enhance community-based interagency cooperation to address participants' health needs. $1.8 million over four years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Information DisseminationTracking and understanding the dynamics of the changing health sphere is a challenge to anyone involved in the policy process. Foundations have funded efforts to gather and disseminate information in an efficient, timely manner.Independent Foundation Grants:Foundation For Health Services Research, Washington, DC. This grant will support the Baxter Health Policy Review , a onetime publication to be released in spring 1992. Its aim is to disseminate timely information on major health policy and management issues. It will feature articles by leading health researchers examining such issues as medical effectiveness and health outcomes, health benefits, quality assessment and assurance, improving productivity of health care systems, physician payment, managed care and alternative delivery systems, providing care to the poor and uninsured, options for long-term care reform, and issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic. Each chapter will include information on relevant research projects funded by the federal government and private foundations and will identify key researchers in the field. $450,000 over three years. Funded by The Baxter Foundation.International HealthThe health problems facing less-developed countries are overwhelming. High birth rates, poor maternal and child nutrition, vector- and water-borne diseases, and now AIDS have taken a large toll. Foundations have funded continuing medical education, tropical disease research and control, family planning, and nutrition projects.Independent Foundation Grants:Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. This grant will support the Program for the Prevention of Maternal Mortality. The program aims to strengthen the research capability of African countries; to provide research and program models for the Safe Motherhood Initiative (an international women's health initiative to prevent infant mortality and deaths associated with childbirth); and to encourage and inform policymakers about the problem of maternal mortality and possible solutions. Research teams are investigating maternal mortality in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. $434,000 over two years. Funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.Maternal, Child, And Adolescent HealthThe U.S. infant mortality rate ranks twentieth among industrialized nations, according to the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality. Morbidity, especially complications from low birthweight, is also a problem. Teen pregnancy, poor nutrition, and reduced access to health care among the poor are suggested culprits. Foundations are addressing these specific problems.Independent Foundation Grants:Marion County Health Department, Indianapolis, IN. Funding will support the ACTION (Adolescent Care Team In Our Neighborhood) Center to provide comprehensive health services to adolescents in the Center Township area of Indianapolis. The center provides social services including tutoring, vocational assistance, adoption services, high school equivalency courses, and family life education. It is supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Funding Partners Program and private donations. $396,000 over five years. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.$300,000 over three years. Funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.$150,000 over three years. Funded by the Indianapolis Foundation.$150,000 over three years. Funded by the Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis.Project Rehab North, Marquette, ML This grant will support a chemical-dependency recovery program called PACT (Parents And Children Together), for adults in Project Rehab's residential substance abuse center. PACT provides foster care for participants' children, case management services, child and family therapy, family and parenting classes, and follow-up activities. The program is conducted in collaboration with Marquette General Hospital. $478,133 over four years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Medical Practice (Quality, Outcome, And Variation)The high cost of health care and society's changing needs have led to uncertainty about the quality, outcome, and effectiveness of medical services. Foundations are funding extensive research projects to determine what constitutes good care and how to achieve and sustain it.Independent Foundation Grants:Health Policy Corporation of Iowa (HPCI), Des Moines, IA. Funding will support efforts to develop measures to provide the public with information to judge the appropriateness of hospital services and evaluate a hospital's record of quality improvement and patients' assessment of hospital quality. The program, coordinated by the HPCI's Health Management Information Center, will collect information on staff qualifications, quality assurance activities, severity of illness, and health outcomes. $295,000 over eighteen months. Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation.New England Medical Center (NEMC), Boston, MA. This grant will support the Functional Outcomes program, a collaborative effort between NEMC's Institute for the Improvement of Medical Care and Health and the Harvard School of Public Health, to train physicians and scientists in health outcomes research and conduct studies on factors that affect health status. This five-year, $17 million program will be directed by Alvin R. Tarlov, former president of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The program will support further studies and publications on the Medical Outcomes Study; expanded data collection and analysis of social factors of health; and a multi-year study to understand how these factors affect health status. Funds also will support research and demonstrations by other institutions, and fellowship training programs. $12.8 million over three years. Funded by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.Robert E Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY. Funding will support a national demonstration to develop and test community benefit standards for hospitals to improve community health status and contain health care costs. A national steering committee will formulate standards and select hospital demonstration sites. $1.1 million over three years. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Funding will support efforts to demonstrate the usefulness of standards of medical appropriateness and effectiveness. In collaboration with the Academic Medical Centers Consortium, RAND will develop appropriateness criteria for as many as twelve diagnostic areas, which will be tested in nine medical centers nationwide. $975,000 over three years. Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation.University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Nursing home residents are prescribed an average of seven medications. This grant will support a project to test an intervention to improve the appropriateness of medications prescribed in nursing homes. A pharmacist will conduct a computerized review of elderly patients' medications and signal potential problems to the attending physician once a month. $250,995 over three years. Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation.University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Little is known about the consequences of nursing shortages on quality of care and patient outcomes. This grant will support a national study of the impact of hospital nurse vacancy and turnover rates on patient outcomes. Data from more than 1,400 nationally representative hospitals, compiled by the American Hospital Association, will be linked with Medicare mortality and patient discharge information. Researchers will identify the organization, management, and financial measurements that influence quality of care. $79,834 over one year. Funded by The Baxter Foundation.Mental HealthNearly one in five Americans suffers from alcohol abuse, drug abuse, or other mental disorders. Yet less than half seek treatment. One-third to two-fifths of the homeless population are affected by mental illness. A number of foundations are addressing this national health issue.Independent Foundation Grants:Fountain House, New York, NY. This grant will support efforts to expand the national clubhouse program, a training program for community-based mental health centers and other facilities that serve severely disabled psychiatric patients. Clubhouses, operated by patients and mental health staff, provide social and vocational activities. Fountain House will develop standards for clubhouse programs, provide ongoing support and consultation to existing clubhouses, establish regional training centers, and initiate new clubhouse programs. The program has received additional support from state governments. $600,000 over four years. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.$250,000 over three years. Funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.$80,000 over one year. Funded by the Public Welfare Foundation.V. OutcomesGrant Outcomes:Health of the Public: An Academic Challenge. In spring 1986, The Pew Charitable Trusts and The Rockefeller Foundation established the Health of the Public program. This six-year grant initiative challenges academic health centers to ensure that their curricula, research, patient care, and organization of health services reflect communities' changing health needs. Six academic health centers received grants under the Health of the Public program to develop their own models to address the program objectives.Columbia University. The program's goal is to develop a “clinical public health track” in the university's dentistry, medicine, and nursing schools. The Office of Clinical Public Health, created within the School of Public Health, has established several programs, including a summer institute on health care organization and financing for first-year medical, dental, and master's-level nursing students; clinical public health and ambulatory/public health electives; two-year Health of the Public fellowships; and career opportunities with the New York city and state health departments. The Johns Hopkins University. This program aims to integrate and expand training and research in disease prevention for medical students, residents and fellows, faculty members, and community-based physicians. The Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, which serves as a prevention learning center, was established to aid implementation of the program. Tufts University. The program's primary focus is to integrate population-oriented teaching into undergraduate and graduate medical education. The Center for Population Health serves as the program's center of operations. It has been instrumental in establishing population-oriented research and service links with nonacademic agencies, such as an Environmental Protection Agency-supported initiative to conduct environmental health workshops for public officials. University of New Mexico. This program attempts to increase the impact of physicians' contribution to population health by training them as “change agents of the future.” The program emphasizes skill development in clinical epidemiology, health ecomonics, culture and health, individual and population disease prevention, and quality assessment. Third- and fourth-year medical students work with residents and faculty in teams to identify individual and community health risk behavior and to design intervention strategies and long-range follow-up. Teams learn to use hospital and community support services and personnel, and act as advocates for patients and community groups. Residents also conduct studies of health care systems of inner-city and rural communities and Indian reservations. University of North Carolina. The program's goal is to promote integration of a population-based perspective into the teaching and clinical work of faculty in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. The program has developed work-shops, an interdisciplinary geriatric dentistry program, a community health assessment program, and a clinical epidemiology mini-course for faculty and fellows. University of Washington. The academic health center's staff is analyzing the cost-effectiveness of treating hypertension in teaching and managed care sites. Results will be presented at a community consortium; subsequent interventions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care will be developed. Other activities include programs to improve preventive care and provide cost-effective care for the chronically ill, and a task force to review undergraduate medical curricula. Outcomes. At a June 1989 meeting of Health of the Public program directors, a series of common themes emerged after one year of program implementation. Each school needed to build alliances within the institution and with surrounding communities. Each expressed the desire to work with the other programs, learn from the others' experiences, identify areas of possible collaboration, and distill their experiences into a core set of shared values. Over the remaining grant period, it is hoped that the activities of the six grantees will attract interest and participation from other medical schools and health-related institutions. For more information about the Health of the Public program, contact the Program Office, University of California, San Francisco, 735 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0994.Older Americans at Work survey finds that more than 1.9 million retired Americans, ages fifty to sixty-four, are willing and physically able to reenter the work force— nearly triple the number estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These findings are contained in a report, Older Americans: Ready and Able to Work , by William Mc-Naught and Michael Barth of ICF, Inc. The report, released in January 1990, is based on a Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. telephone survey. It estimates that if 1.1 million seniors reentered the work force, there would be an increase of $34.1 billion in output and $3.4 billion in tax revenues. The survey provides a national database on older Americans' attitudes, education, health, income, work history and preferences, and retirement decisions. Future reports will be based on the survey data. The report and survey received support from The Commonwealth Fund under a new funding initiative, the Older Americans at Work Program, which is designed to encourage positive perceptions about the value and ability of older workers and to provide them with increased employment opportunities. Copies are available from the Communications Office of The Commonwealth Fund, Harkness House, One Fast 75th Street, New York, NY 10021-2692 . Publications: An Analysis of Poverty and Related Conditions in Cleveland Area Neighborhoods was released in January 1990 by the Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). High-poverty neighborhoods are associated with high levels of teen pregnancies, infant mortality, school dropouts, crime, and other social problems. Specific reasons for the persistence of poverty in the Cleveland area during the 1980s include changes in the regional economy, decreased employment opportunities, and geographic isolation of the poor. The report concludes that 30 percent of city residents live in high-poverty areas. It predicts that if the level of poverty continues, “between 50 and 60 percent of the city's residents will be living in high poverty during the 1990s.” The study received support from the Cleveland and Rockefeller foundations. It has prompted The Cleveland Foundation to establish the Cleveland Commission on Poverty, to develop strategies at the city and neighborhood level. The commission, composed of community and neighborhood leaders, educators, and others, will work closely with the CWRU poverty center. Also, Cleveland is one of six cities nationwide funded by The Rockefeller Foundation for poverty-related projects. Copies are available for $10 from the Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change, Mandei School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Beaumont Hall, 2035 Abington Road, Cleveland, OH 44106.Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being , released in January 1990 by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, is a fifty-state summary of the status of American children. Ten indicators of children's well-being include measures of health, economic security, education, and adolescent risk factors. Data are presented by state and by region, and states are ranked according to the ten indicators. The Annie E. Casey Foundation has committed $5 million over five years to the Kids Count program “to promote public accountability in children's services” by improving the collection and use of national, state, and local data on child and family well-being. The foundation will award up to ten $200,000 grants to states to develop methods of measuring their progress in meeting key benchmarks for children. Copies of the Data Book are available from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.Primary Care Physicians: Financing Their Graduate Medical Education in Ambulatory Settings was released in December 1989 by an Institute of Medicine committee, Division of Health Care Services. The report resulted from a study to develop strategies for financing primary care graduate medical education (GME) in ambulatory settings. Three specialty areas—general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice—were examined because they share common problems in GME financing. The committee developed recommendations to improve the ability of educators and health care providers to support GME for primary care physicians in ambulatory settings. Recommendations include: (1) physician payment reform in which Medicare would adopt the resource-based relative value scale method; (2) Medicare payment for the direct costs of GME; (3) assessment of states' need for primary care physicians; and (4) continued private foundation support for GME activities. The Institute of Medicine received support for the study from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Public Health Service. Copies are available for $33 from National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418.Program Changes:The Commonwealth Fund has announced that the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company has committed $125,000 per year to expand the foundation's Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students. The program, established in 1984, will offer up to thirty fellowships each year. “This [support] clearly signals the company's foresight and commitment to attracting talented minority physicians into biomedical research careers,” said Margaret Mahoney, president of The Commonwealth Fund. “We welcome them as partners.” Address inquiries to National Medical Fellowships, Inc., 254 West 31st Street, New York, NY WOOLKey Personnel Changes:Steven A. Schroeder has been named president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Schroeder, a professor and chief of the division of general internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, will assume his new responsibilities July 1, 1990. Retiring president Leighton E. Cluff was appointed to the position in 1986. Schroeder is well known for his active interest in health policy and has served as a consultant and project director to several foundation-sponsored programs. He was a member of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission from 1984 to 1988.Daniel J. Evans has been named to the board of trustees of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He is former U.S. senator and former governor of the state of Washington.Chris K. Olander has been promoted from associate executive director to executive director of The J.M. Foundation, as of January 1990. He replaces Jack Brauntach, who is now the foundation's special counsellor.William C. Stubing has been named president of the Greenwall Foundation. He was formerly director of the New York Academy of Medicine's Office of Medical Education and associate fellow of the academy. Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article Metrics History Published online 1 January 1990 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.PDF download
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