Grants 2018–2019
In fiscal year 2018-2019, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $1,923,000. Of this total, $733,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, $660,000 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 2018-19.
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
Caring for Our Caregivers – to pilot and evaluate practices for strengthening staff members’ ability to manage stress and keep balance in body, mind and spirit while providing care for San Francisco’s primarily low-income, high-need older adults and adults with disabilities
$90,000
Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
Healing Without Borders: Ruach Omanut (Spirit of the Arts) – through a number of strategic partnerships with arts organizations, creation of more accessible portals to both the spiritual healing that art offers and to lift up the artistic expression of marginalized sick, grieving and disabled voices
$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 reduce and prevent domestic violence in Jewish homes, improve community response, increase provider competence, and ensure appropriate intervention for those affected
$45,000
Hasidah
Jewish Infertility Support – to provide emotional, spiritual, financial and informational support for people in the Jewish community experiencing infertility and other fertility challenges
$10,000
Mount Zion Campus-Community Partnership Awards
UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with San Francisco Marin Food Bank and SF Department of Public Health
Mount Zion Food Pharmacy Initiative
$75,000
UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with YMCA of San Francisco
Increasing Knowledge, Accessibility and Uptake of the Diabetes Prevention Program in Primary Care
$74,320
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with Year Up Bay Area
Mindfulness for Underserved Youth
$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 Primary Care Pediatrics in partnership with Huckleberry Youth Program
Huckleberry Wellness Academy-UCSF Pediatrics Residency Partnership
$50,000
UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with BAYCAT
Young Women’s Health Leaders Media Arts Partnership
$40,000
UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cancer Supportive Care Programming
$39,140
Art for Recovery
$38,000
Cancer Survivorship Wellness
$26,296
Mindfulness-based Cancer Recovery Provider Training and Survivor Caregiver Intervention
$19,970
UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine
Implementing Addiction Treatment in the Primary Care Setting with an Embedded Buprenorphine Clinic and Patient Navigator
$40,000
Pilot Program of Digital Tools and Team-based Care to Improve Hypertension Control in Black Patients in the General Internal Medicine Practice
$35,000
Improving Cardiovascular Risk and Hypertension Control in a Multi-ethnic Group of Primary Care Patients
$35,000
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Integrative Oncology Research Program
$200,000
Community Care Fund
$40,000
Medical Center-based Massage Therapy at Mount Zion
$35,000
Integrative Behavioral Medicine Group Treatment Program for Sleep Disorders
$20,000
UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Helping Patients Choose the Right Treatment
$40,000
Make the Choice for a Healthy Voice – Vocal Health Education in SF Schools
$39,000
Longitudinal Patient Reported Quality of Life Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Following Treatment
$20,000
Intranasal Microbiome in Patients with Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
$20,000
Improving Health Literacy Surrounding Hearing Loss and Vestibular Disorders via Online Patient Education Videos
$15,000
UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics
Expanding Developmental and Behavioral Health Capacity in Pediatric Primary Care
$40,000
Promoting Sustainable Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Care for Children with Developmental-Behavioral and Socioemotional Concerns
$40,000
Improving the Transfer from Pediatric to Adult Care for Young Adults with Childhood-Onset Chronic Diseases
$20,000
UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
Enhancing the Outreach and Diversity of the WISDOM Breast Screening Program
$40,000
Postpartum Village at UCSF Mount Zion
$35,710
Eliminating Disparities in Post-Myomectomy Care
$10,200
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
Radiation Oncology – Increasing Access to Compression Sleeves/Garments and Lymphedema Educaton for High Risk Breast Cancer Patients
$30,000
Surgery – Reducing Postoperative Opiate Use in Endocrine Surgery through Patient Education
$10,000