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2nd Annual Grantees’ Reception Held

9/21/2017

Don McQueen, Past President of the Chartercare Foundation and Elizabeth Lynch, Director of Behavioral Health at Thundermist Health Center

On September 21st, 2017, grant and scholarship recipients gathered for the second annual Chartercare Foundation grantees’ reception in downtown Providence. Agencies receiving grants from the Foundation this past year were present to talk about the progress of their programs, including Thundermist Health Center, WellOne Primary Care, RI Quality Institute, St. Clare Home, and St. Mary’s Home for Children. In addition, several nursing scholarship recipients attended, as well as Melissa Thomas, who thanked the Foundation on behalf of her son Peter, a URI nursing student.

“The inaugural event in 2016 was so well-received that we decided to make it an annual celebration of the good work being done in the community,” said Paula Iacono, Executive Director. Also present were members of the Chartercare Board of Directors and representatives from the RI Foundation. A welcome – if unanticipated – benefit was the interaction between agencies and the discovery of collaboration opportunities. “Definitely a win-win,” remarked Susan DeRita, development director at St. Mary’s.

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PAST GRANTS

4/19/2017

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Susan Stevenson (center), Executive Director and Jasmine Roca, Senior Center Manager (right) accept the Eldercare Safety & Wellness Grant from Don McQueen, President of the Chartercare Foundation.

Vanessa Voltz, Executive Director and Mills Taylor, LGBQT Advocate – Sojourner House accept a grant from Paula Iacono, Executive Director, Chartercare Foundation (not pictured)

To date, the Foundation has awarded close to $1million in scholarships and grants to nonprofit RI organizations focusing on healthy living and health care issues. The Foundation is a separate 501©3 community foundation and is not affiliated with Chartercare Health Partners or its subsidiaries.

The Chartercare Foundation is pleased to announce its most recent grants to the following organizations:

Domestic Violence & Abuse Prevention grant to Sojourner House –
$40,000 for expansion of services to victims of domestic violence

Eldercare Wellness, Safety & Abuse Prevention grant to Capital Community Centers’
Lillian Feinstein Senior Center –
$34,213 for diagnosis and treatment of depression and mental health issues experience by elder residents

Behavioral & Mental Health Grant to

Children’s Friend & Service – $10,560 for program services supporting permanency for child placements
Bradley Hospital – $17,133 for establishment of a healing arts program for ages 9-21 at the CADD residences on site
Adoption Rhode Island – $25,000 capacity building grant to assist waitlisted children in need

Emerging Health Care Needs Grant to the RI Oral Health Foundation –
$15, 000 to support Mission of Mercy
annual Free Dental Clinic

Nursing & Continuing Medical Education Scholarships –
$30,000* (for a list of awardees, please visit the Scholarship page).

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OPIOD CRISIS INITIATIVE

2/2/2017

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Chartercare Foundation, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), is announcing the successful completion of a lifesaving initiative for people suffering from opioid use disorder.

Chartercare Foundation funded RIQI’s work to integrate Care Management Dashboards (CMDs) into five RI Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs), linking them electronically with all major acute care hospitals in Rhode Island. The Dashboards provide immediate notification to the OTPs about their patients’ emergency department (ED) and hospital admissions and discharges in near real time. The OTPs now have the information they need to proactively engage in coordination of care and prevent their patients from “falling through the cracks” when the right hand of the delivery system doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s Jessica Keefe, Nurse Practitioner, and Christine Atkin, Health Team Coordinator state, “For us, the use of Care Management Dashboard is truly lifesaving. That is without question. If we understand that a patient overdosed at the hospital last night and was subsequently discharged, we can then change our treatment as needed to keep this individual safe.”

The opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions nationally, and the crisis in RI is following suit. According to preventoverdoseri.org, in 2017 in Rhode Island, the number of ED visits per month that were attributed to overdose ranged from 106 in March up to 171 in October. Overall, in 2017, there were a total of 233 deaths recorded as due to an accidental drug overdose.

“With Care Management Alerts and Dashboards, we are able to inform the treatment center of the patient’s arrival within minutes (previously days or weeks) and intervene in their treatment protocols, with lifesaving results,” said Keefe and Atkin.

The OTP Care Management Alerts and Dashboard implementation project was made possible with a $50,000 grant from the North Providence-based Chartercare Foundation. “While the number of individuals affected by the opioid crisis in RI is on the rise, we are encouraged by the impressive work of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, RI Department of Health and area hospitals in addressing this critical issue; and we are committed to assisting in working together with these entities to help eradicate this problem,” said Paula Iacono, Executive Director of the Foundation.

Elaine Fontaine, Senior Director, Digital Products, Data & IT at RIQI remarked, “We are grateful to the Chartercare Foundation for supporting our work of getting timely, actionable, and much-needed information into the hands of those caring for people with opioid use disorder. By keeping all members of the care team informed about a patient’s status, we form a community of care around the patient, promoting the best outcomes for patients while simultaneously making the job of providers more satisfying.”

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