Virginia Health Care Foundation Awards $1.8 Million in Grants to Increase Access to Health Care

Richmond, Virginia, June 29, 2021
The Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) has awarded grants, totaling more than $1.8 million to 19 organizations throughout Virginia. These grants will increase access to medical, dental, and behavioral health care services for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians, and help eligible uninsured Virginians obtain state-sponsored health insurance.

Grantees and projects awarded follow:

Behavioral Health Care

  • New Horizons Healthcare (NHH) – $95,000 to underwrite the salary and benefits of a pediatric behavioral health professional to provide timely behavioral health services to children and their families in the Roanoke area.
  • Tri-Area Community Health (TACH) – $93,821 to fund a Psychiatric Physician Assistant in Franklin County to meet growing patient demand for mental health services and medication management.
  • The Women’s Center (TWC) – $89,167 to hire two full-time mental health professionals to provide behavioral health services to local adolescents and their families in Northern Virginia.
  • Central Virginia Health Services (CVHS) – $84,375 to underwrite the salary and benefits of a full-time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (Psych NP) at its Hopewell-Prince George Community Health Center (HPG) to provide mental health and medication management services to more of its patients and to those referred from other CVHS practices.
  • Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS) – $65,850 to add a Masters of Social Work (MSW) clinician, who will provide behavioral health services to patients to meet the criteria needed to obtain licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
  • Youth for Tomorrow (YFT) – $28,125 to help fund a full-time behavioral health counselor at its outpatient counseling center in Warrenton.

Primary Medical Care

  • Daily Planet Health Services (DPHS) – $180,000 to add a full-time physician to expand primary care services at its main practice in Richmond to treat the 1200+ new patients who it added to its caseload during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Greater Prince William Health Center (GPWHC) – $100,000 to help add a prenatal care provider at GPW’s Woodbridge and Dumfries locations enabling GPW to reduce the wait time for prenatal visits so pregnant women can obtain timely prenatal care and deliver healthy babies.
  • Bradley Free Clinic (BFC) – $57,938 to help support the salary and benefits of a full-time Nurse Practitioner (NP) to help expand BFC’s capacity to provide medical care to the Roanoke community.

Dental Care

  • Daily Planet Health Services (DPHS) – $86,364 to meet increased demand for dental services by helping support the salary and benefits of a dentist at its South Richmond location.
  • Eastern Shore Rural Health System (ESRHS) – $45,000 to help support the salary and benefits of an additional dentist to treat patients at Franktown Community Health Center in Northampton County.

Medicaid/FAMIS Outreach & Enrollment

  • Inova Partnership for Healthier Communities – $291,029 to support four full-time and three part-time Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible residents of Fairfax and Prince William counties, and the City of Alexandria, in Virginia’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Neighborhood Health – $194,587 to support two full-time and four part-time Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible residents of the City of Alexandria and Arlington and southern Fairfax counties in Virginia’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Norfolk Department of Public Health – $143,113 to support two Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible Virginians from the Hampton Roads area in the Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Cumberland Plateau Health District – $120,980 to support two Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible Southwest Virginians in the Commonwealth’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Richmond City Health District – $54,840 to support a Project Connect Outreach Worker who will help enroll more eligible residents of the City of Richmond in Virginia’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.

The Virginia Health Care Foundation is a non-profit public/private partnership with a mission to increase access to primary health care for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians. The Foundation was initiated by the General Assembly and its Joint Commission on Health Care in 1992. Since its inception, it has funded 487 community-based initiatives throughout the Commonwealth. VHCF’s programs and partnerships have touched the lives of nearly 800,000 uninsured Virginians.

For more information about VHCF and its programs, visit www.vhcf.org or call

(804) 828-5804.

 

Last Updated on June 29, 2021