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FLTC Receives Grant from Mother Cabrini
Health Foundation in Support of Medical
Model ADHC Programs Responding to
COVID-19 Emergency
The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is supporting adult day health care (ADHC)
programs to provide community-based services to Medicaid beneficiaries in the context
of COVID-19. It has awarded $68,713 to the Foundation for Long Term Care to develop
resources and tools to support medical model ADHC providers to meet the needs of older
adults with complex medical conditions and functional limitations in the COVID-19
environment and beyond. These resources will enhance the expertise of nurses and social
workers to address new challenges as the COVID-19 emergency evolves, including expanding
telehealth services, strengthening infection control practices and combating social isolation.
Ultimately, the goal is to ensure that participants will continue to receive long term care
services in the least restrictive setting while optimizing health outcomes and avoiding
hospitalizations.
Medical model ADHC programs serve impoverished (Medicaid) beneficiaries who
need long term care services and supports in all areas in New York State, from urban
to very rural areas. These providers serve a wide range of ages, abilities, cultures and
communities.
“As the largest health care
These resources will enhance the expertise of nurses and
foundation in New York State, it
social workers to address new challenges as the COVID-19 is a vital part of our mission to be
on the front lines assisting during
emergency evolves, including expanding telehealth services,
this pandemic,” said Alfred
strengthening infection control practices and combating
F. Kelly, Jr., Chief Executive
social isolation.
Officer of Visa and Chair of
the Mother Cabrini Health
Foundation Board. “We are working to get urgently needed funds across the state to
organizations supporting New Yorkers most in need.”
“New York’s poorest and most vulnerable communities are facing unprecedented
challenges due to COVID-19,” said Msgr. Gregory Mustaciuolo, the Foundation’s
Chief Executive Officer. “Honoring the legacy of Mother Cabrini, we intend these
grants to have a significant impact in ameliorating food insecurity, helping providers
as they deliver care and services in this challenging environment, offering mental
health services and sustaining other essential resources. We plan to continue to
monitor the crisis, and we will continue to adjust our response as needs arise.”
Grants were distributed to organizations whose efforts focused on addressing New
Yorkers’ health needs, as well as the social determinants of health, from supporting
food banks across the state and bolstering shelter providers’ ability to provide care
for some of New York’s most vulnerable populations to assisting clinics as they
administer care to individuals with COVID-19.
(See FLTC Receives Grant on page 7)
6 Adviser a publication of LeadingAge New York | Summer 2020