Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Quality Improvement Fund - Justice Involved - Funding Opportunity: Fiscal Year 2025 Quality Improvement Fund – Transitions in Care for Justice-Involved Populations, Applicant Name: Community Healthcare Network, Address: 60 Madison Ave., 5th Fl, New York, NY 10010, Contact Name: Christine Rutkoski, (P) 212.545.2400 (F) 646.312.0481, Email Address: CRutkoski@chnnyc.org, Web site Address: www.chnnyc.org, Congressional districts within service area: 6,10,11,14,15,16, HRSA Funding: Community Health Center (330), Ryan White– Part C, Teaching Health Center Planning Grant, Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program, Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency Integration Program Community Healthcare Network (CHN) has been committed to providing access to quality healthcare services for low-income and uninsured New Yorkers for over 40 years. CHN is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization that provides access to quality, culturally competent, and comprehensive community-based primary care, mental health services, and social services for diverse populations in underserved communities in four boroughs of New York City. As a network of twelve health centers, two medical mobile units, and two school-based health centers, CHN reaches over 85,000 individuals each year through its clinical and community-based programs. The primary catchment areas for CHN’s current health centers include the following neighborhoods: Williamsburg/Bushwick, East New York, and Crown Heights/Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn; the Lower East Side, Central Harlem, and Washington Heights in Manhattan; Jamaica and Long Island City, Queens; and Tremont and the South Bronx. In addition, CHN’s mobile units provide family planning, sexual health, and mental health services to hard-to-reach populations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. CHN serves high-risk neighborhoods that are federally designated as Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations. CHN’s targeted areas are disproportionately impacted by preventable and treatable illnesses including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and respiratory disease, HIV/STIs, and poor birth outcomes. A disproportionate amount of CHN’s patients are impacted by social determinants of health, including insurance access, low incomes/unemployment, food insecurity, and unstable housing. These patients include women and their partners, infants and children, the elderly, high-risk individuals, new immigrants, the homeless, substance users, and adolescents. Through this funding opportunity, CHN aims to expand its programming for justice-involved populations, including engagement and retention in care, care coordination, chronic disease management, behavioral health care, SUD/MAT services, and other medical services as needed. behavioral health and substance use disorder services for high-risk populations in New York City. To achieve this, CHN will expand staffing and training initiatives focused on engaging justice-involved individuals through partnerships with the state carceral system and community organizations serving the justice involved population. The program will also include a comprehensive social determinants of health screening and referral system, incorporating critical resource partners to address SDOH needs including food access, intimate partner violence, income support, and housing. In 2023, CHN provided 229,459 visits to over 40,000 unique patients. CHN current Health Justice Network program has reached over 1,000 individuals. This grant will help support the expansion services throughout CHN sites.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).