Funding Research, Scholarship and Community Partnerships

In fiscal year 2022-2023, MZHF awarded new grants from board-designated funds totaling approximately $2,445,000. Of this total, $780,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, $730,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, and $935,000 was allocated from research funds. Additionally, MZHF’s Fishbon Fund Committee awarded $1,000,000 to establish the Fishbon Endowed Chair in Family Planning and Abortion at UCSF Mount Zion. The following grants listing summary includes a selection of awards approved by Mount Zion Health Fund’s Board of Directors during fiscal year 2022-2023.

Jewish Legacy Awards

Institute on Aging

Companioa Enrichment Center Program – to support transportation and scholarships to increase the number of underserved dementia clients and families receiving services through Companioa’s dementia-friendly day programming at its Presidio Center
$115,000

Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation – SF Campus for Jewish Living

Jewish Home and Rehab Center Short-Stay Rehabilitation Program – to provide quality short-term care to older adult patients, enabling them to return to their highest-possible level of functioning and assisting them to successfully return to their home and community
$90,000

Shalom Bayit

San Francisco Healthy Jewish Families Project – to support provider training, teen and adult abuse prevention/education, early intervention, and direct care to victims, to reduce and prevent violence in Jewish homes, improve community response, increase provider competence, and ensure that those affected are met with adequate intervention wherever they seek help
$80,000

Jewish Vocational Service

JVS Healthcare Training Programs – to support three programs which prepare clients for living-wage, career-track UCSF jobs, increasing both the capacity and cultural competency of UCSF’s frontline, patient-facing workforce
$75,000

Northern California Board of Rabbis

Chaplaincy Program Development – to employ a part-time rabbi to provide spiritual care through hospital visits for Jews who are sick and/or dying, and unaffiliated with a synagogue
$65,000

Jewish Community Federation

Mental Health and Wellness Initiative – to significantly expand access to mental health services through one or more of three focal areas: Low Income Access Funds for individual therapy; Young Adult Peer Connectors; Young Family Peer Connectors
$40,000

Hasidah

Jewish Infertility Support – to provide emotional, spiritual, and financial support for people in the Jewish community experiencing infertility and other family building challenges
$15,000

Community + UCSF Mount Zion Awards

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health in partnership with On Lok, Shanti Project & SF Health Network

Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships to Advance Integrative Health Equity
$150,000 (per year for three years for total award of $450,000)

UCSF Otolaryngology and UCSF Pediatrics in partnership with SF Unified School District

Clinical and Educational Partnership to Improve Care for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
$150,000 (per year for three years for total award of $450,000)

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards

UCSF Mount Zion Anesthesia

Chronic Pain Education Series
$5,000

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Meeting Patients Where They Are: A Multi-tiered Solution to Address Genetic Testing Disparities in Cancer Patients
$39,970

Art for Recovery (FY23-24)
$40,000 (per year for three years for total award of $120,000)

Cancer Supportive Programming (FY23-24)
$30,000 (per year for three years for total award of $90,000)

UCSF Clinical Cancer Genomic Lab

Cancer Genetic Indicator Screening and Tool for the UCSF500 Assay
$15,000

UCSF Dermatology

Evaluation of Resident Perspectives on Clinical Education at the UCSF Skin of Color Clinic
$13,000

UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine

Pilot Ride Share Voucher Program to Reduce Transportation Barriers among Medically Complex Patients
$36,400

Developing a Coaching Program for DGIM Junior Faculty and Fellows to Reduce Burnout and Improve Retention
$40,000

Interprofessional Feedback to Improve Teamwork for Patient Care
$16,705

UCSF Mount Zion Hospital

Mount Zion Nurse Wellness Program: Phase 2 Expansion
$20,000

Mount Zion Ortho 5N & 4E Nursing Certification Project
$16,725

Mount Zion Preop and PACU Nursing Certification Project
$7,850

Mount Zion CSE-IT Healthcare Training
$4,000

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health

Community Care Fund (FY23-24)
$40,000 (per year for three years for total award of $120,000)

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Adult Tracheostomy Teaching Videos for All
$35,000

Long-term Swallowing Function Surveillance in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
$15,000

Addressing Barriers to Obstructive Sleep Apnea Care: Assessing Perceptions of Disease and Treatments
$12,000

UCSF Mount Zion Palliative Medicine/MERI Center

Group-based Palliative Care Visits for Patients Living with Dementia and their Care Partners
$40,000

UCSF Mount Zion Pediatrics

Needs Assessment to Improve Care for Children with Medical Complexity at MZ Primary Care Pediatrics
$39,955

UCSF Mount Zion Radiation Oncology

TOOL (Teachings in Ocular OncoLogy) Kit for Mount Zion Cancer Care: Patient Education Collaboration for Radiation Oncology and Ophthalmology
$33,700

UCSF Mount Zion Surgery

Timing of Surgery in Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer? – A Discrete Choice Experiment
$40,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Black Women’s Patient Family Advisory Council
$40,000

Patient Support for Pediatric and Adolescent Reproductive Health Patients
$40,000

UCSF OBGYN Early Career Faculty Development and Physician-Led Coaching Program
$38,000

Perinatal Care Fund (FY23-24)
$7,500 (per year for three years for total award of $22,500)

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based – other grants

Block Grant for General Pilot Research – FY23-24 (to support multiple awards allocated through UCSF RAP)
$250,000

Block Grant for Cancer Pilot Research – FY23-24 (to support multiple awards allocated through UCSF RAP)
$150,000

UCSF Mount Zion-based Watson Scholars Award (FY23-24 spring cycle)
$450,000

UCSF Mount Zion Perstein Award (FY23-24 spring cycle)
$80,000

Professional Education Courses and Conferences (to support multiple division/department awards)
$55,000

UCSF Mount Zion Resident Awards for Excellence & UCSF Mount Zion Nursing Awards for Excellence
$8,000