Funding Research, Scholarship and Community Partnerships

In fiscal year 2017-2018, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $3,295,000. Of this total, approximately $680,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, $647,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, $530,000 was allocated from research funds, and $1,438,000 was allocated from advised funds. The following grants listing summary includes a selection of awards approved by the Board of Directors of Mount Zion Health Fund during fiscal year 2017-18.

Jewish Legacy Awards

Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation

Jewish Home Financial Accessibility Fund – a multi-year award to provide health-related services for low-income, frail elderly residents of the Home’s rental-based assisted living and memory care residential facilities
$200,000 (payment on multi-year award)

Institute on Aging

Development of a Sustainable Geropsychology Training and Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic – to provide outpatient psychological services for low-income older adults and adults with disabilities in San Francisco and training of doctoral students
$110,000

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Kol Haneshama: Jewish End of Life Care/Hospice Volunteer Program – to recruit, train and support Jewishly-trained hospice volunteers
$65,000

Jewish Vocational Service

Healthcare Sector Strategy – to provide training to help underserved, low-income job seekers in San Francisco build skills and secure health care career path jobs toward economic self-sufficiency
$60,000

Shalom Bayit

San Francisco Healthy Jewish Families Project – to provide direct care and counseling, outreach and education to address domestic violence in the Jewish community
$45,000

Mount Zion Campus-Community Partnership Awards

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with Year Up Bay Area

Mindfulness for Underserved Youth
$75,000

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with Jewish Family & Children’s Services

What matters most?: Advance Health Care Directive and Values Exploration Workshops for Mount Zion
$75,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with Legal Aid at Work

Advancing the Health of Underserved Pregnant and Parenting Workers
$75,000

UCSF Cancer Center in partnership with The Cashmere Foundation

Spa Experience Partnership
$50,000

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology in partnership with SF Conservatory of Music

Choir for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Users
$40,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with BAYCAT

Young Women’s Health Leaders Media Arts Partnership
$38,430

UCSF Cancer Center in partnership with Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal

Cancer Fighting Kitchen Course and Cookbook
$13,500

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research
– Developing Initiatives: Latino Community Education Tool on Hereditary Breast Cancer
– Developing Initiatives: Cancer Survivorship
– Pilot Studies Block Grant (awarded through UCSF RAP)
$300,000

Art for Recovery
$40,000

Cancer Supportive Care Programming
$36,905

Breast Care Center – Restructuring Nurse Navigation to Improve Patient Care and Enhance the Overall Patient Experience
$35,000

Cancer Survivorship Wellness
$27,092

New Patient Cancer Center Guidebook: Spanish and Chinese
$15,390

Decision Aid to Facilitate High Quality Shared Decision Making in Endocrine Surgery
$7,896

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine

Improving Care for Latino Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Development of Culturally and Linguistically Adapted Educational Materials for Patients and Their Families
$39,650

Identifying and Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in the UCSF General Medicine Practice
$35,000

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Community Care Fund
$40,000

Integrative Geriatrics: A Clinical-Educational Innovation to Expand Care for Older Adults
$30,000

Therapeutic Yoga for People with Cancer
$20,850

Integrative Behavioral Medicine Group Treatment Program for Sleep Disorders
$20,000

Therapeutic Laughter Program
$10,000

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Hearing Education in San Francisco Public Schools
$40,000

Development of an Online Access Portal for the Hearing Impaired
$40,000

Facial Reconstructive Surgery Enhanced Patient Education and Community Support
$24,400

Balance and Falls Center Website: Creating on Online Resource for Patients
$20,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Vaginal Health for Cancer Survivors Undergoing Pelvic Radiation
$35,799

Integrative Treatment and Psycho-Social Support for Chronic Pelvic Pain Patients
$33,316

Expanding OB/GYN Surgical Skills Training for UCSF Medical Trainees
$17,572

Perinatal Care Fund
$10,000

UCSF Mount Zion – other grants

The Center for Education in Primary Palliative Care
$1,250,000 (awarded over four years, from the Dr. Harris M. Fishbon Fund)

UCSF Mount Zion-based Pilot Research Block Grant (awarded through UCSF RAP)
$230,000

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Educational Travel – multiple departmental awards
$45,000

UCSF MZ Radiation Oncology – Ride to Care—Eliminating transportation barriers for disadvantaged cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy to improve quality of life and care delivery
$40,000

UCSF MZ Pediatrics – Improving the Transfer from Pediatric to Adult Care for Young Adults with Childhood-Onset Chronic Diseases
$39,994

UCSF MZ Anesthesia – Preventing Opioid Over-Prescription in Post-Surgical Patients
$21,835