Grants 2017-2018
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