Grants 2019–2020

In fiscal year 2019-2020, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $3,000,000. Of this total, $870,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, $1,600,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, and $530,000 was allocated from research funds. The following grants listing summary includes a selection of awards approved by Mount Zion Health Fund’s Board of Directors during fiscal year 2019-20.

Jewish Legacy Awards

Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation

Righteous Giving Endowment 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

The Living with Dementia Ecosystem – to help those dealing with dementia to navigate services by creating a dementia care ecosystem in San Francisco focused on decreasing caregiver stress, improving quality of life and reducing unnecessary healthcare expenditures
$80,000

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Kol Haneshama and Imadi: Death-bed Vigiling – continuation and expansion of hospice volunteer training and service, with the addition of bedside end-of-life vigiling at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living
$65,000

Shalom Bayit

San Francisco Healthy Jewish Families Project – to reduce and prevent domestic violence in Jewish homes, improve community response, increase provider competence, and ensure appropriate intervention for those affected
$55,000

Jewish Vocational Service

JVS UCSF EXCEL Program – to meet the training and employment needs of underserved, low-income San Francisco jobseekers, providing placement in career track UCSF jobs, and increasing the capacity and cultural competency of UCSF’s patient-facing workforce
$45,000

Sinai Memorial Chapel

The Memory Garden – to create a contemplative physical garden as a Jewish sacred space for reflection and prayer related to pregnancy and fertility loss
$20,000

Hasidah

Jewish Infertility Support – to provide emotional, spiritual, and informational support for people in the Jewish community experiencing infertility and other fertility challenges
$10,000

Mount Zion Campus-Community Partnership Awards

UCSF Women’s Options Center in partnership with HealthRIGHT 360

Healthy Women, Healthy Children Project
$75,000

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care

Improving Advance Care Planning for the Chinese American Community at Mount Zion
$59,163

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with Community Tech Network

Providing Training Classes and Educational Outreach on Telehealth/Video Visits to Older Primary Care Patients at Mount Zion
$53,321

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with 18 Reasons

Implementing a Culinary Medicine Curriculum for High Risk Obese Patients
$50,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with SFDPH Family Planning Program

Black Women Know: San Francisco Reproductive Justice Summit
$38,500

UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics in partnership with Support for Families with Disabilities

Telehealth-based Healthcare Transition for Youth with Developmental Disabilities
$37,024

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cancer Supportive Care Programming
$38,915

Art for Recovery
$38,572

Survivorship Wellness Group Program
$33,638

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine

Closing the Digital Divide: Promoting Mount Zion Patient Engagement in Virtual Acute Care
$35,000

Novel House Calls Curriculum for Primary Care Internal Medicine Residents
$35,000

Development of a Shared Advocacy Curriculum for UCPC Residents
$27,902

In Clinic Phlebotomy Services for DGIM
$26,350

Evaluating & Improving Language Concordant Signage for Patients with Limited English Proficiency
$23,020

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Integrative Oncology Research Program (2nd year funding)
$200,000

Community Care Fund
$40,000

Improving Access to Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management Through a Group Acupuncture Program
$40,000

Evidence-Based Integrative Rheumatology for Vulnerable Patients
$40,000

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Hearing Education in San Francisco Public Schools
$40,000

Virtual Reality for Vestibular Rehabilitation
$22,400

Longitudinal Patient Reported Quality of Life Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Following Treatment
$20,000

UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics

Quality Improvement and Expansion of Developmental and Behavioral Health Capacity in Pediatric Primary Care
$40,000

Mount Zion Pediatric Primary Care Parenting Skills Needs Assessment
$39,535

UCSF Mount Zion Surgery

Improving Access to Advanced Parathyroid Imaging for Endocrine Surgery Patients at UCSF Mount Zion
$30,000

Left-handed Curriculum for Surgical Trainees
$20,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment to Help Prevent Alcohol Exposed Pregnancies and Improve the Health of Women
$38,000

Mothers and Babies: Empowering Patients in the Prevention of Perinatal Anxiety and Depression
$32,148

Perinatal Care Fund
$6,000

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based – other grants

Pilot Research Block Grant for General Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$230,000

Pilot Research Block Grant for Cancer Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$100,000

Educational Travel (multiple division/department awards)
$45,000

Anesthesia – Improving Access to Pain Psychology Services for Medicaid Patients
$39,942

Endocrinology – Updating DGIM Medical Provider Diabetes and Thyroid Disease Management Skills
$38,270

Neurology – Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Caregivers
$40,000

Radiation Oncology – Overcoming Nutritional Deficiencies in Head and Neck Cancer Patients without Means
$25,000

COVID-19 Emergency Direct Service Awards

UCSF Mount Zion Campus ICU and Acute Care Units
$250,000

San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
$130,000

Institute on Aging
$100,000

Tipping Point Community
$100,000

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
$100,000

Jewish Family and Children’s Services
$100,000

YMCA of San Francisco
$55,000

San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living
$50,000

Safe & Sound
$50,000

HealthRIGHT 360
$50,000

Shalom Bayit
$25,000

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
$15,000