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The Colorado Health Foundation
Founded	1996
Type	Nonprofit
Location	Denver, Colorado;
Area served	Colorado
Endowment	$900 million
Website	www.coloradohealth.org
Formerly called	HealthONE Alliance

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The Colorado Health Foundation is one of the largest health-focused foundations in the state^[1], providing grants to nonprofits that focus on encouraging healthy living. The foundation works to increase the number of Coloradans with health insurance^[2] and increase accessibility to quality healthcare. In addition to providing grants^[3], the foundation partners with nonprofits, businesses, and government officials to address health issues in Colorado and provides medical education programs to increase the health care workforce. The foundation has assets of more than $900 million and in 2009 the foundation granted $93.8 million^[4].

History

The foundation’s history is tied to four metro Denver hospitals: St. Luke's^[5], Swedish Medical Center^[6], Presbyterian Denver and Aurora Presbyterian. Today, these hospitals are part of Denver's largest nonprofit hospital system, HealthONE^[7], which now includes 13 medical facilities.

The foundation began in 1996 when the HealthONE Joint Venture and HealthOne Alliance, were created. In 2006, the HealthONE Alliance changed its name to the Colorado Health Foundation to reflect its work across the state^[8].

Recent Grant Recipients

In May, the foundation announced it was giving $18 million to federally qualified health centers in the state. The grants will provide the centers with money to pay for general operating expenses and capital support. Recipients include:

Clinica Family Health Services in Thornton^[9]
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Denver^[10]
Denver Health Community Health Services^[11]
High Plains Community Health Center, Lamar^[12]
Mountain Family Health Centers, Glenwood Springs^[13]
Salud Family Health Center, Fort Lupton^[14]

Loan Fund

The foundation created the Loan Fund, a program that helps otherwise financially stable organizations through challenging economic times^[15]. Working through a partnership with NCB Capital Impact^[16](NCBCI), the Loan Fund provides short-term, low-interest loans to nonprofits that receive grants from the Foundation as of June 1, 2010.

Senior Management

Executive Team:

Anne Warhover, President and CEO
Gary Drews^[17], CFO and Vice President, Finance
Kelly Dunkin^[18], Vice President, Philanthropy
Shepard Nevel^[19], Vice President, Policy and Operations
Charles Reyman^[20], Vice President, Communications

Board of Directors

The foundation’s Board of Directors^[21] is made up of 20 members and includes representatives from the business and health care sectors.

Funding Areas of Focus

The foundation provides funding to improve the following areas: healthy schools; adequate, affordable insurance coverage; improved health care delivery; enhanced health information technology; and expanded health care professionals workforce.

Community Engagement

The Colorado Health Foundation emphasizes community engagement in health and health care issues through trusted, high-quality information:

The Colorado Health Report Card

Since 2007, the Foundation has worked with the Colorado Health Institute (CHI)^[22], to issue the Colorado Health Report Card^[23] which provides data on health indicators, such as prenatal care, access to health care and obesity in five life stages: Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Children, Healthy Adolescents, Healthy Adults and Healthy Aging. Within each stage, at least five indicators are updated annually by CHI and compared to other states’ rankings. CHI assigns a grade to each life stage based on the average of Colorado’s rank among states. Many of the indicators are based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 initiative^[24].

The results of the 2009 Colorado Health Report Card documented that Colorado continues to fall behind in important areas affecting children’s health. The overall grade for Healthy Children dropped from a C- in 2008 to a rating of D+ in 2009^[25]. Among the indicators for this life stage, the most dramatic drop was in childhood obesity where the state fell from third to twenty-third in the nation for the most obese children. In addition, Colorado remains in the bottom half of all states in four out of six indicators for the life stage Healthy Children.

Health Elevations

The Colorado Health Foundation produces a quarterly health and health care information journal, Health Elevations, and distributes a hard copy version to community stakeholders throughout the state.

The Colorado Health Symposium

Each year the foundation hosts the Colorado Health Symposium. The annual event, formerly called the Dorsey Hughes Symposium^[26], has attracted leaders in health care policy and reform efforts to share ideas, debate policy and interact with the health care industry, government, business, academia and the nonprofit sector.

References

External links

[1] ttp://www.tgci.com/funding/top.asp?statename=Colorado&statecode=CO

[2] ttp://www.denverpost.com/ci_13390275

[3] ttp://www.tgci.com/funding/top.asp?statename=Colorado&statecode=CO

[4] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/finances.aspx

[5] ttp://www.pslmc.com/

[6] ttp://www.swedishhospital.com/

[7] ttp://www.healthonecares.com/

[8] ttp://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4110069

[9] ttp://www.clinica.org/

[10] ttp://www.coloradocoalition.org/

[11] ttp://www.denverhealth.org/

[12] ttp://www.highplainschc.net/

[13] ttp://www.mountainfamily.org/

[14] ttp://www.saludclinic.org/

[15] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/yellow.aspx?id=4580&terms=loan+fund

[16] ttp://www.ncbcapitalimpact.org/

[17] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2104

[18] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=4439

[19] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2106

[20] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=4429

[21] ttp://www.coloradohealth.org/board.aspx

[22] ttp://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/

[23] ttp://www.coloradohealthreportcard.org/reportcard/2009/default.aspx

[24] ttp://www.healthypeople.gov/

[25] ttp://www.rmpbs.org/panorama/index.cfm/entry/671/The-2009-Colorado-Health-Report-Card:-How-are-we-doing-

[26] ttp://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/07/23/daily56.html?page=2

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-*[http://www.healthonecares.com/ HEalthONE]
+*[http://www.healthonecares.com/ HealthONE]