New Choices and Hard Decisions: Helping Seniors Navigate Medicare

Educating seniors on the changes to the Medicare program will be a challenge for both the public and private sectors.  Reaching the nation’s 41 million Medicare beneficiaries — 35 million of whom are over the age of 65 — will require a mix of customized, one-on-one assistance and broad education campaigns.  This Issue Focus proposes that providing information and referral services for seniors and their families is an area ripe for foundation work, and outlines a number of opportunities for grantmakers.

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Connecting Children to Ongoing and Coordinated Health Care

Ongoing and coordinated care for children has been linked to better health outcomes, as well as lower overall costs.  This Issue Focus highlights opportunities for grantmakers that include improving access to medical homes, coordinating care for children with chronic diseases, educating providers, colocating services, and reducing emergency department use.

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Medicare + Choice – New Health Plan Options Challenge Medicare Beneficiaries to Act as Informed Consumers: Is the System Ready?

This supplement to the GIH Bulletin outlined new health plan options that challenge medicare beneficiaries to act as informed consumers.

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Health Programs Get Funding Boost: New Federal Funds Available for Prevention, Treatment, and Research

This GIH Issue Focus highlights new federal funds available for prevention, treatment, and research, and shares additional policy developments relevant to funders.

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Outreach to Uninsured Children: Recent Foundation Initiatives

This GIH Issue Focus outlines what grantmakers are doing to reach uninsured children.

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Shoring Up the Safety Net: Grantmakers Act to Strengthen Providers Serving the Underserved

Health grantmakers are working to shore up the safety net in various ways.  This Issue Focus explores grantmaker activities beyond providing funding for direct services and capital improvement, including strengthening organizational capacity, supporting community-based health plans, and educating policymakers.

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Using Strategic Philanthropy to Advance State Health Care Reform: Maine’s New Dirigo Health Plan

Learn about development of Maine’s innovative Dirigo Health Plan, an ambitious, comprehensive health care reform initiative.  Dirigo Health will offer a health insurance product to individuals, the self-employed, and small businesses; expand eligibility in Maine’s Medicaid program; and improve quality and contain costs. 

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Support Cover the Uninsured Week: Making Uninsured Americans a Priority on the Nation’s Agenda

The issue of the uninsured is one of America’s biggest health challenges, and the situation is growing worse. In response, health philanthropies from coast to coast and some of the nation’s most influential organizations in the United States are joining together to support Cover the Uninsured Week from March 10-16, 2003. We hope you will join us in supporting this unprecedented foundation-led educational effort so that we can speak with one voice on behalf of the nation’s uninsured.

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Expanding Access for the Uninsured: Building a Community Response

Foundations have made access to care a priority – convening community leadership, funding communitywide planning processes, facilitating health system change, expanding insurance coverage, building the capacity of safety net providers, and filling gaps in delivery of services.  This Issue Focus features promising models and key lessons learned from across the country.

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Collaboration: Building Relationships to Improve Health

This GIH Issue Focus on collaboration draws from President & CEO Lauren LeRoy’s remarks at GIH’s 2012 Meeting, Collaborating for Change: Exploring Health Partnerships That Work.

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