March 29, 2024

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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation gives $1M to support telehealth

The Harvard Pilgrim Wellness Care Foundation this week donated $1 million to help the Massachusetts-centered Neighborhood Care Cooperative’s marketing campaign to increase telehealth capacities for its network of health centers in the course of the condition.

C3 aims to progress the telehealth expert services obtainable in Massachusetts in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

C3 will set the cash into the Federally Certified Wellness Center Telehealth Consortium, made up of thirty group health centers in the course of the condition, together with the 19 health centers that comprise C3. 

The marketing campaign has lifted $3.8 million in grants in direction of its $five million goal. 

Earlier donations ended up made by the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Wellness Progression, the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, the Landry Family Foundation, the Klarman Family Foundation, Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

What’s THE Impression

The marketing campaign intends to increase the telehealth capability, education and infrastructure at the group health centers that make up the consortium. 

It will concentrate on giving components together with laptops, cameras and headsets help for the centers’ IT departments distant monitoring devices, these as scales, blood tension cuffs and glucose monitors a “lending library” of affected individual-side telephones and tablets residence phlebotomy job management and a extended-phrase telehealth tactic that examines facilitators and limitations to implementation. 

The grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation provides its COVID-19 aid total to virtually $7 million because the start off of the pandemic.

THE Larger sized Craze

C3 introduced its marketing campaign in May and is effectively on the way to reaching its $five million goal following considerably less than a thirty day period of its generation.

Telehealth has been on the increase around the course of the pandemic because now anybody with internet obtain can receive healthcare from residence. When most of the developments made in the telehealth world are a result of the temporary regulatory waivers, many hope that they will get adopted permanently following the pandemic ends.

ON THE Record

“These cash to Neighborhood Wellness Centers throughout the area are a sturdy complement to the nearly $four million the Foundation has previously contributed to regional and regional nonprofits, foods corporations, and meal supply partnerships in reaction to COVID-19,” mentioned Karen Voci, the president of Harvard Pilgrim Wellness Care Foundation. “Trying to keep these vital group resources sturdy is essential to public health, specially in underserved urban and rural areas.”

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