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Health
Rose Community Foundation funds programs and projects in four priority areas in an effort to improve access to affordable health care and health care coverage, and to create a better coordinated health care system.
Access to Care
Uninsured children and adults are less likely to get timely medical care than those who are insured. The Foundation supports efforts to make health insurance coverage, and health and mental health services accessible to low-income individuals facing the greatest barriers to necessary health care.
Improve the Cost-Effectiveness of the Health Care System
Health care services are often uncoordinated, and the processes for eligibility determination and for financing care are complicated and inefficient. To improve health care access and quality, the Foundation supports efforts to create a more cost-effective health care system, particularly for the underserved.
Health Policy and Public Health Leadership
Our community needs leaders who understand the health and mental health service systems well enough to conceive, initiate and implement improved access to, and coordination of services. The Foundation supports efforts to develop, inform and equip leaders who can help create a more accessible and well-coordinated health care system.
Primary Prevention
Many intractable health problems are preventable. Rose Community Foundation supports organizations and coalitions working to prevent disease and injury, and to promote community health.
To address immediate needs for health care, the Foundation may fund direct services. However, greater consideration goes to proposals that seek to improve access and coordination of the health care system over the long term. The Foundation may also fund local efforts to document and understand the community’s health needs, and to evaluate programs working to meet those needs. The Foundation generally does not consider capital requests except from safety-net providers that serve low-income populations. It also generally does not fund basic or clinical research or disease-specific programs.
The priorities in Rose Community Foundation’s Health area are informed in part by the work of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform, which published a final report in January 2008. Grantseekers may learn more about the report’s findings on the uninsured, health spending in Colorado, descriptions and analyses of comprehensive health care proposals, and recommendations for improving Colorado’s health system. A copy of the report may be found at colorado.gov/208commission.
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