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  • Implementing the ACA in New York State: One Statewide Foundation’s Approach to Preparing for 2014

    Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), in partnership with numerous grantees and allies, has made it a key priority to help New York State prepare for effective implementation of health reform. But have NYSHealth’s investments made a difference?

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  • A Plan for Expanding Sustainable Community Health Centers in New York

    In this NYSHealth-funded report, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) identifies ways New York State’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) could provide more than 1 million additional visits and serve hundreds of thousands more patients each year.

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  • Health-e-Access: Optimizing Access to Primary Care to Avoid Emergency Department Use

    For many parents, particularly those in impoverished, inner-city communities, the emergency department is their only access point for medical care for children with acute illnesses. However, limited primary care access often leads to exorbitant costs for non-emergency conditions, and for care that is frequently inconvenient, impersonal, and inefficient. To ultimately change this paradigm, the University of Rochester piloted the Health-e-Access program over the course of nine years, beginning in 2001. The program enables children with acute or ongoing health care needs to be evaluated by a remote clinician via telemedicine in convenient, community-based access sites, which include childcare programs and schools.

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Who We Are

The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is a private, statewide foundation dedicated to improving the health of all New Yorkers. To achieve meaningful impact, we make grants, inform health care policy and practice, and spread effective programs that work to improve New York's health system.

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NYSHealth also focuses on Integrating Mental Health and Substance Use Services and Veterans’ Health and provides grants through our Special Projects Fund.

 

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The scorecard allows the Foundation to track its effectiveness and impact in its efforts to improve the health of all New Yorkers.

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