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The Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation has received a $20,000 grant from The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) to fund "Think First for Your Baby/ Piensa Primero por Tu Bebe"; an injury prevention education program for underserved pregnant women. The Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation was formed in 1986 to raise funding for Good Samaritan Hospitals programs that could be supported through the hospitals operating budget.
The GCF grant will be used to fund the operating costs of the program through 2010. A class of fifty women is scheduled to be offered in January, 2010. Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death and hospitalizations for children. The Think First for Your Baby/ Piensa Primero por Tu Bebe has provided infant injury prevention education since 2003 for approximately 600 underserved women in the Greater Cincinnati community. The classes cover topics such as falls, poison prevention, shaken baby syndrome and personal safety. This program is unique in that it also includes "hands-on" education, peer development and a follow-up home visit to address actual application of skill and applied learning.
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation is accepting donations to fund additional underserved pregnant women who are on the Think First for Your Baby waiting list. For more information on how you can support this community initiative, please contact Carol DiPilla at (513) 862-3374.
Thanks to a $10,000 grant from the CareSource Foundation, "The Midwife Is In" will continue to serve the residents at the Fay Apartments in Cincinnati’s Fairmont neighborhood. The CareSource Foundation devotes resources toward non-profit organizations who are improving the lives of the underserved in Ohio and Michigan by providing grants to health and human service entities for focused, innovative and impact-based programs. "The Midwife is In" is a TriHealth Nurse Midwifes and Women’s Health initiative to improve birth outcomes in high risk pregnant women. One of the ways this goal is achieved is by improving access to healthcare services like healthcare mobile vans. The Midwife Is In is such a service in which healthcare is provided by a nurse midwife who travels by mobile van to the neighborhood needing health services. The nurse midwife also sees clients in their homes, in group settings and works collaboratively with individual providers. As a result of this program women are receiving a more individualized and thorough assessment of their needs, are engaged in their care in a more assertive manner and the community is experiencing consistency of care.
A $28,315 grant from the Sutphin Foundation will provide funding the "Centering Pregnancy Program," offered through TriHealth Nurse Midwives. Centering Pregnancy is a group prenatal care model, now offered across the country in more than 50 healthcare organizations, that has become increasing popular as a result of the participants outstanding birth outcomes, especially the number of low birth weight babies born and women who experience preterm labor. Centering Pregnancy participants like the group approach to pregnancy where they can share their concerns with others and at the same time learn about how to keep themselves healthy both during and after their pregnancy. For more information about the Centering Pregnancy Program, contact TriHealth Nurse Midwives at 513-751-5900.
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Description |
Grant Amount |
| The Bahmann Foundation |
To initiate "Seniors Link to the Net", a computer education program specifically tailored for older adults. The
program will be offered through TriHealth SeniorLink and will provide Internet access and specialized instruction to
seniors who otherwise may have never had the opportunity to embrace computer technology. |
$10,000 |
| Catholic Health Initiatives |
To initiate the Community Outreach Navigator, a new TriHealth senior Services program that will improve the
quality of life for frail adults by providing community service referrals and follow-up, case management and home
visits for 500 underserved Hamilton County seniors to facilitate seniors being able to remain comfortably in their
own homes. |
$228,013 (over two years) |
| Duke Energy |
To initiate Healthy Women, Healthy Lives, a
comprehensive health outreach program for women that offers screening,
education and treatment for breast cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease. |
$50,000 |
| The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GreaterCincinnatiFDN.org) |
For partial support of Healthy Women, Healthy
Lives |
$40,000 |
| Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund |
To support the cost of admission gifts for babies
admitted to the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) and children receiving
outpatient surgery. In addition to this grant, the quilt fund is supported by
the hospital’s auxiliary, The Guild. Quilts, made by volunteers are given to
each NICU baby. They help to filter noise and light when draped over the
isolettes and provide a keepsake when babies go home. Click here, for more
information. |
Undisclosed |
March of Dimes
Ohio Chapter |
To expand the Centering Pregnancy Program, a new group prenatal care birth option that is offered at TriHealth Nurse
Midwives. |
$25,000 |
| National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation |
For Managing Menopause, a program designed
specifically for underserved women with a history of reproductive cancer who
will have the opportunity to learn unique strategies that are alternatives to
hormone replacement therapy to manage the uncomfortable symptoms of
menopause. |
Undisclosed |
| The Josephine S. Russell, Charitable Trust, PNC Bank Trustee |
For partial start-up funding of Healthy Women,
Healthy Lives. |
$25,000 |
| The Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee |
A matching grant was approved for partial
start-up support of Healthy Women, Healthy Lives a comprehensive health
outreach program for underserved women who are over age forty that offers
screening, education and treatment for breast cancer, osteoporosis and heart
disease. |
$200,000 |
| Tobacco Settlement
Funds - Foundation for Healthy Communities |
To continue providing Think First for Your Baby, an injury prevention initiative targeting uninsured pregnant women.
The project goal is to lower the number of injuries such as falls, suffocation and shaken baby syndrome in children
under the age of one year. |
$28,000 |
| Foundation for Healthy Communities and the Healthy Ohioans |
TriHealth will partner with Crescent Park
Corporation, a local third party logistics and packing company located in
Cincinnati. The goal of this partnership is to implement an effective
employee wellness program that will positively impact the health and
well-being of the Crescent Park workforce |
$25,000 |
| Tobacco Settlement Funds - Foundation for Healthy Communities |
For continued support of indigent patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to attend |
$15,000 |
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"Breathe Easy," a course offered through the hospital’s pulmonary
rehabilitation department. |
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