The idea to create a foundation was championed by Harold “Hal” Williamson, COPIC’s first external non-physician board member. He was passionate about philanthropy and encouraged the COPIC Trust Board of Directors
to consider giving back to the Colorado health care community in real and meaningful ways. Today, its efforts extend across multiple states, and it has impacted the lives of many.
Grants currently awarded by the COPIC Medical Foundation focus on reducing fragmentation across care settings. A top concern in the field of patient safety, breakdowns in care from a fragmented health care system can lead to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative testing and procedures, and reduction in quality of care leading to general patient and provider dissatisfaction. For the COPIC Medical Foundation, contributing to a solution to this safety concern means supporting scalable or replicable solutions, focusing on the testing of new ideas or growing existing solutions, and then seeing avenues for larger application.
Grant Funding
The COPIC Medical Foundation (CMF) works to improve health care outcomes through grant funding of:
Criteria
To be considered for funding, organizations must meet the following minimum criteria:
Focus Area
For 2024, our grant funding will continue to focus on the issue of reducing fragmentation across care settings.
Deadlines and Applications
The COPIC Medical Foundation grant cycle is now closed. We will post information about the 2025 RFP process in early November.
COPIC Medical Foundation grant recipients are making a difference in a variety of ways. The 2024 cohort of grantees includes three organizations of varied size and scope that impact health care in communities across the country. The COPIC Medical Foundation awarded more than $450,000 in grants.
Here are the 2024 recipients along with a description of the project for which they were seeking funds:
Visiting Nurse Association (Nebraska)—Collaborative Multicomponent Care for Elderly Postoperative Recovery and Fall Prevention: A five-organization collaboration addressing post-op care for elderly people with a focus on reduction of fall risks at home, improved circumstances related to social determinants of health, improved physical status, and enhanced well-being.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Kentucky)—Community Paramedicine Pilot Program: A program that uses paramedics to address inappropriate use of emergency medical services with a goal to reduce health care costs. The project will focus on meeting patients in their home environment and addressing social determinants of health care gaps and engagement in care.
DaneMAC (Wisconsin)—Expansion of the DaneMAC Multi-Agency Portal (DaneMAP): A new web-based platform through which survivors of sexual violence and post-assault care providers can connect with each other. It provides survivors with immediate, post-assault mental health care and secure, intra-agency communication and coordination among post-assault care providers.
COPIC Medical Foundation grant recipients are making a difference in a variety of ways. The cohort of grantees include organizations of varied size and scope that impact health care in communities across the country.
Meredith Hintze has been with COPIC since 2019 using her expertise to maximize the impact of the COPIC Medical Foundation in the communities we serve.
Email: mhintze@copic.com --------720.858.6060--------