Grants 2015-2016
In fiscal year 2015-2016, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $3,334,000. Of this total, approximately $790,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, $606,000 was allocated from patient care funds, $551,000 was allocated from research funds, $92,000 was allocated from education funds, and $1,295,000 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 2015-16 from board-discretionary funds.
Jewish Legacy Awards
Institute on Aging
Procura Mobile Electronic Home Care Recordkeeping Platform and CallMe! Web Portal to enable IOA staff to support 500 frail seniors at home
$120,000
Jewish Vocational Service
Healthcare Academy Plus – to provide allied health training skills and support services to low-income San Francisco jobseekers
$75,000
Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
Kol Haneshama – to recruit, train and support Jewishly-trained hospice volunteers
$50,000
Shalom Bayit
San Francisco Healthy Jewish Families Project – addressing domestic violence through counseling and education
$25,000
Mount Zion Campus – Community Partnership Awards
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with SFDPH Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic
Broadening Non-Pharmacologic Options in the Primary Care Safety Net: Partnership to Pilot an Integrative Pain Management Program
$75,000
UCSF HDFCCC Radiation Oncology in partnership with the Shanti Project
Caring In and Beyond the Clinic: Development of a Community-based bi-lingual Care Navigation Program for the Radiation Oncology team and social workers
$75,000
UCSF Primary Care Services in partnership with Rebuilding Together San Francisco
Home Safety for Primary Care Services Patients: Providing low-income, fall-injury patients with a home safety inspection and internal modifications
$70,000
UCSF Mount Zion Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in partnership with Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California
Musical Training Therapy for Cochlear Implant Recipients
$60,000
UCSF Mount Zion National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology (BAYCAT)
Raising Youth Voices for a Healthy Future: Creating media tools that honor youth voices as agents of change in both personal and community health issues
$45,000
UCSF Mount Zion Pediatrics in partnership with Huckleberry Youth Programs
Community-based Adolescent Health Care Initiative
$35,000
UCSF Mount Zion National Center of Excellence Women’s Options Center in partnership with the Women’s Community Clinic
Quality Assurance and Evaluation for Comprehensive Care
$20,000
UCSF Mount Zion Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in partnership with SFDPH – Office of Childhood Hearing
Community-based Childhood Screening Assessing Barriers and Ensuring Follow-up Care
$15,000
UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research – Developing Initiatives Fund
$159,000
Research – Faculty Recruitment
$100,000
Research – Pilot Studies
$80,000
Cancer Care Supportive Programming
$39,950
Art for Recovery
$36,500
Development of a High Volume Coordinated Care Model for Patients Undergoing Genetic Counseling and Genetic Testing for Hereditary GI Cancer
$31,544
UCSF Breast Oncology Program Breast Science Advocacy Core
$28,753
Breast Oncology Program Scientific Retreat, February 2017
$24,908
UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science
$20,690
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Community Care Fund
$40,000
Pediatric Community Care Fund
$40,000
Therapeutic Laughter Program
$19,500
Prepare for Surgery Program
$17,000
Integrative Behavioral Medicine Group Treatment Program for Sleep Disorders at Mount Zion Campus: Mindfulness-Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
$16,500
Therapeutic Yoga for People with Cancer
$7,000
UCSF Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Development of a Comprehensive Resource Guide and Website for Adults with Hearing Loss in the San Francisco Bay Area
$40,000
Hearing Consequences of Voice-Impairment
$40,000
Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Adolescents: Evaluation, Education, and Behavior Change
$34,492
Teaching Observation Program (TOP) in the Operating Room
$5,000
UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
Development of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Center
$39,970
Transgender Care Navigation and Capacity Expansion
$24,940
MILK (Mothers & Infants Lactation Kooperative) Support Group
$20,000
UCSF Mount Zion – other grants
Research – UCSF Mount Zion-based Pilot Research (awarded through UCSF RAP)
$226,000
Division of General Internal Medicine – Developing and Implementing a Heart Healthy Integrative Diet for Chinese American Patients
$53,000
Mount Zion Educational Travel – multiple small awards
$41,000
Radiation Oncology – Improving Radiation Therapy with MRI Simulation
$40,000
Radiology – Digital Breast Positron Emission Tomography at Mount Zion
$40,000
Pediatrics – UCSF Mount Zion Pediatric Asthma Clinic
$10,500
Anesthesia Department – Enhancing Patient Care in Anesthesia through Use of a Cuff Manometer to Inflate the Endotracheal Tube Pilot Balloon
$3,800