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June 12, 2008
by Marie-Anne Hogarth
East Bay Business Times
California community clinics and health centers serving the uninsured and low income will benefit from a $4.5 million technology program to improve chronic disease care, the Oakland-based California HealthCare Foundation announced Wednesday.
The "Tools for Quality" program, funded through five health care philanthropies, will provide 33 clinics throughout the state with up to $40,000 each in matching funds to support software systems that will help doctors and nurses track patients and make sure that they get the right care at the right time.
About 38 percent of Californians live with a chronic disease and studies show they get the needed care about half of the time, according to the foundation.
The California HealthCare Foundation is providing the grants along with the Blue Shield of California Foundation; the Community Clinics Initiative, a grant-making program established by Tides and The California Endowment; Kaiser Permanente Southern California Region and The California Endowment.
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For more information on Tides Center project Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, see www.lchc.org.
