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Health
Everyone needs health care but not everyone gets the health care they need. Rose Community Foundation recognizes that many people have difficulty gaining access to necessary health-care services for two reasons. First, many people are unable to find and keep affordable health insurance. Second, the health-care system frequently consists of fragmented services and confusing financing of those services. Rose Community Foundation believes that it is possible to shape a health-care system that is more accessible and responsive to the needs of our community. By funding projects in the following three areas, the Foundation supports efforts to improve access to affordable health care and health-care coverage, and to create a better coordinated health-care system:
Primary Prevention
Many of our community's most intractable health problems can be prevented. Rose Community Foundation supports organizations and coalitions in their efforts to prevent disease and injury, and to promote community health.
Access to Care for Low-Income Children, Youth, and Families
Uninsured children and youth are less likely to have a regular health-care provider or to receive necessary preventive services than those who are insured. Rose Community Foundation supports efforts to make health-insurance coverage, and health and mental-health services accessible to low-income children and youth.
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 changes that improve access to and coordination of services. Rose Community Foundation supports efforts to develop, inform and equip leaders who can help create an accessible and well-coordinated health-care system.
Recognizing that immediate needs for health care must be met, the Foundation may fund direct services. Greater consideration, however, goes to proposals that seek to improve access and coordination of our health-care system over the long term. Rose Community Foundation may also fund local efforts to document and understand the health needs of the community, and to evaluate programs that have attempted to meet those needs. The Foundation generally does not fund basic or clinical research.
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