This funding opportunity is 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.
Donor Name: The Colorado Health Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/15/2022
Details:
To be considered for funding, clinics must meet the following criteria:
- Alignment with the Foundation’s cornerstones that advance our 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 the Foundation’s newly required demographic data form to be filled out by every applicant.
- 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 as defined above. 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 as described above.
- 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 demostrate 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.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations considered for funding:
- Federally qualified health centers
- Rural health clinics
- Community safety net clinics
- School-based health centers
- Community mental health centers with integrated primary care services
For more information, visit The Colorado Health Foundation