Beyond Bricks and Mortar Using Philanthropy to Improve Community Health

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Beyond Bricks and Mortar Using Philanthropy
to Improve Community Health
Presenters Sister Carol Ann Jokerst Vice
President Mission Integration, CHRISTUS Spohn
Health System, Corpus Christi, Texas Les Cave
President, CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare,
Houston, Texas Paul Swasko System Director of
Philanthropy, CHRISTUS Health, Irving, Texas
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• SESSION OBJECTIVES
• Understand the importance of philanthropy to
  fund and stimulate community collaborations.
• Learn how foundations can increase mutual
  interest support partnerships to fund them.
• Develop a better understanding of
  hospital-based philanthropy programs and support
  healthcare projects in the community.
• Understand the issues involved in creating
  Catholic Legacy Community Health Foundations
  following the sale of a hospital as a way to
  perpetuate the legacies of service in a community.

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CHRISTUS Mission
EXTENDING THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST

• Call to mission issued by
• Bishop Claude Dubuis in 1866
• Our Lord Jesus Christ, Suffering in the Persons
  of a Multitude of the Sick and Infirm of Every
  Kind, Seeks Relief at Your Hands

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CHRISTUS Vision

• To be a leader and advocate in creating
  exemplary health care services, processes and
  structures that improve the health of the local
  and global communities so all may experience
  Gods healing presence and love

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CHRISTUS Direction
To
From
Focus on high cost, ER-based charity care to
treat illnesses that could have been prevented.
Comprehensive strategies to address the symptoms
and underlying causes of health problems.
Community collaboratives that mobilize and build
upon existing community assets.
Proprietary approaches to planning
and implementation.
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The Value of Community Health Improvement
Strategies

• Demonstrate our commitment beyond the
  hospital walls
• Enhance clinical outcomes for all
  individuals
• Achieve organizational imperatives mission,
  vision, and values
• Improve our image as a not-for-profit
  organization

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CHRISTUS FundDirected Funding Strategies FY
2007

• Designate up to 75 of grant funds to support
  regional Building Blocks
• Use money to leverage outside grant writing
  activity (become more strategic)
• Remaining funds awarded in a responsive manner

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Leveraged Funds
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CHRISTUS Fund
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• REDEFINING HEALTH CARE

Outside the Hospital Walls
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The Hospital Foundations Role
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CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare
Houston, Texas
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Map of CHRISTUS Gulf Coast Ministries
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Planned New Health Center at a Glance

• 2006 San Jose Clinic facts and figures
• Total area 17,000 sq. ft.
• Dental chairs 3
• Medical specialties available 18
• Number of patient visits 27,157

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Information about the Planned Health Center

• Total area 55,000 sq. ft.
• Planned clinic area 33,000 sq. ft.
• Dental Chairs planned 8 with space for 12
• Medical specialties planned 18
• Plus the following
• Family Counseling
• Mobile Clinic
• Medical imaging
• Enhanced lab and pharmacy
• Access to social services/case management
• Increased space for literacy program

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Planned Health Center
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Sustaining Support

• CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare has committed
  funding for the building utilities, maintenance,
  insurance and other operating expenses, which we
  estimate to be approximately 200,000 per year.
• The Foundation will also pay the Healthy Living
  Mobile Clinic operating costs, which are
  approximately 400,000 per year.
• San Jose Clinic and Catholic Charities will
  provide for their ongoing program funding.

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CHRISTUS Southwest Community Health Center
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Who We Are

• Mission
• Promote the highest quality of health and
  wholeness in the human person by providing health
  care in a disadvantaged and underserved area of
  Houston

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HISTORY

• Founded in 1991- Well Child , OB, Immunization
• Literacy
• Partnership with City of Houston/Baylor College
  of Medicine
• OB - St. Joseph Residency Program
• 2000 Family Road
• 2001 Family Practice, Pediatrics

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WHO DO WE SERVE

• Immigrant population
• Medically UnderservedMUA
• Low Income
• Poor literacy
• Young Families

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WELL CHILDREN
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PEDIATRICS
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OBSTETRICS
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FAMILY ROAD

• A culturally sensitive program that provides
  access to health education, disease prevention,
  safety
• education, social services
• and community resources

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FAMILY ROAD

• Medicaid Enrollment
• Social services counseling and referral for
  family issues
• Assistance with accessing services such as WIC,
  food stamps, etc.
• Information about locations where food, clothing
  and shelter can be obtained.
• Medication Assistance Program
• Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston
• Literacy Center

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LITERACY CENTER
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
Back to School Project
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NUN RUN
This Years Nun Run October 20, 2007
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NUN RUN
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Collaboration

• Promotaras de Salud
• Extension Agency
• The Rose
• La Plaza
• Neighborhood Centers Inc.
• Mexican Consulate
• City Of Houston

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• REDEFINING HEALTH CARE

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CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
First Friday
Corpus Christi, Texas
Original Organizers and Recipients
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FIRST FRIDAY
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SAIL AWAY
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Sailing Anyone?

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ST. JOSEPHS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Paris, Texas
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ISSUES INVOLVED WITH CREATING A LEGACY
FOUNDATION

• To Leave (a Foundation) or Not to Leave!
• Legal decisions private vs. public charity
  (509 a 1, 509 a 3 or Private?)
• OCD issues
• Fund Raising vs. Fund Granting?
• Board/Governance decisions
• Offices, Staffing, other administrative decisions
• Grant application guidelines

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EXAMPLES OF RECENT GRANTS GIVEN

• 7500 - local prenatal education program
• 9,500 - Childrens Advocacy Center for purchase
  of colposcope
• 7,500 - CASA for Kids to implement Nine Months
  PLUS program
• 27,224 - purchase digital retina screening
  camera to be used in new diabetic research
  project
• 7,500 - Meals on Wheels program
• 7,000 - Nurses certification in critical needs
  areas
• 32,000 - Medical school expenses of local med
  student matched by the local hospital

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Summary Philanthropy Beyond the Walls

• As more hospital foundations actively address
  health needs outside the walls of the hospital
  and beyond bricks and mortar, healthcare
  philanthropy can grow, perhaps redefining
  healthcare philanthropy to include a broader
  participation in community health projects,
  including active involvement in the planning
  process, funding and evaluation.

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