Deadline: 15-Feb-23
The Colorado Health Foundation is seeking applications for the funding opportunity: Capital Infrastructure – Increasing Access to Care for Coloradans of Color that designed to improve the capacity of clinics to serve more Coloradans of color with high-quality, comprehensive team-based primary care centered on patients’ preferences, needs and values.
The Opportunity will provide shovel-ready capital funding to safety net practices in Colorado.
Focus Area: Maintain Healthy Bodies
Eligible Projects
Examples of team-based care projects considered for funding:
- Facility acquisition, construction, renovation or expansion
- Medical and office equipment purchases
- Equipment and/or technology costs for patients who do not have the means to access telemedicine services. Funds can also support patient education on the use of telemedicine.
- Equipment and/or technology costs for providers to provide and/or improve telemedicine services for their patients
- Hardware, software, installation and technical assistance costs associated with health information technology systems
- Operating expenses associated with physical or information technology expansions and/or improvements
Criteria
To be considered for funding, clinics must meet the following criteria:
- Alignment with the Foundation’s cornerstones that advance their efforts to bring health in reach for all Coloradans.
- Serve at least 50% patients of color – defined as Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American and multiracial communities. This can be demonstrated through answering the demographic questions posed within the application.
- At least 50% of patients served are living on low income. This can be demonstrated through Medicaid caseload, number of uninsured and/or individuals on the Children’s Health Plan Plus or the Colorado Indigent Care Program.
- Must be a nonprofit clinic or public agency that provides comprehensive primary care services to a significant population of patients who are living on low income .For-profit clinics will also be eligible to apply for the primary care capital funding, provided they meet the criteria and can also demonstrate at least 50% of patients are living with low income.
- Provide integrated health care services through teams composed of behavioral, physical and/or oral health care providers.
- Ability to demonstrate clinic leadership commitment in executing the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS) Standards and support for team-based primary care.
- Ability to demonstrate improved health outcomes as a result of the expansion in access to team-based primary care.
- Ability to demonstrate need for expanding access to team-based primary care.
- Preference will be given to clinics that can show patients receive necessary referrals to community and social services when needed.
Eligible Organisation
- Federally qualified health centers
- Rural health clinics
- Community safety net clinics
- School-based health centers
- Community mental health centers with integrated primary care services
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For more information, visit https://coloradohealth.org/funding-opportunities/funding-opportunity-capital-infrastructure-increasing-access-care-coloradans