New York Announces $60 Million Funding for HEAL NY
“HEAL NY” Funding Will Support Improvements in Health IT, Hospital Restructuring and Community-Based Services for Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities
HEAL NY Phase 10:
Nearly $60 million of the funding, through HEAL NY Phase 10, will go to community-based health information technology (IT) projects to build a more streamlined approach to sharing patient information. These projects will lead to significant savings in health care in the coming years. Unnecessary paperwork and redundancies throughout the system will be removed, and doctors and nurses will have better access to information of patients who transfers from one medical center to another.
These reforms are based on the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, which health care professionals believe to be the most effective in treating a patient – by establishing a partnership among doctors, nurses, patients and their families to ensure that patients have the support they need to participate in their own care.
HEAL NY Phase 11:
A second block of funding, HEAL NY Phase 11, consists of more than $174 million in grants to 25 hospitals across the State to enter into collaborative arrangements that promote quality and efficiency in the delivery of care appropriate to the needs of their communities.
These awards will help the recipient hospitals to eliminate duplicative services and achieve greater efficiency in providing services responsive to identified community needs. For example, the Catholic Health System’s merger of its three acute care hospitals in Western New York into its single governance structure will lead to a more efficient service line model – patients will get better care, and operating costs will go down. In New York City, an award to St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan will support that facility’s collaboration with NYU Hospitals Center to consolidate services in pediatrics, physical rehabilitation, psychiatry and cardiovascular care, while eliminating more than 60 beds that are no longer needed.
HEAL NY Phase 12:
Finally, the HEAL NY Phase 12 awards consist more than $172 million in grants to 19 applicants for projects to support long-term care services in community-based settings. The primary goal of these awards is to help communities organize, finance and develop alternatives to traditional nursing home while reducing of nursing homes’ certified inpatient bed capacity.
These awards will result in new community-based, long-term care options, including Assisted Living Programs, Assisted Living Residences, Enriched Housing Programs, and affordable senior housing with coordinated medical services.
A complete list of the HEAL NY awards by institution is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-b.pdf.
A complete list of the HEAL NY awards in Queens is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-a.pdf.
The following is a region-by-region list of HEAL NY Phase 10, 11 and 12 awards:
Total New York City Region Awards: $140,115,761
- Phase 10 New York City Awards: $13,741,782
- Phase 11 New York City Awards: $63,173,261
- Phase 12 New York City Awards: $63,200,718
Total Northern Region Awards: $23,183,925
- Phase 10 Northern Awards: $7,000,000
- Phase 11 Northern Awards: $6,021,752
- Phase 12 Northern Awards: $10,162,173
Total Western Region Awards: $67,839,658
- Phase 10 Western Awards: $13,997,972
- Phase 11 Western Awards: $23,399,321
- Phase 12 Western Awards: $30,442,365
Total Central Region Awards: $72,320,205
- Phase 10 Central Awards: $6,676,804
- Phase 11 Central Awards: $23,856,401
- Phase 12 Central Awards: $41,787,000
Total Hudson Valley Region Awards: $65,168,126
- Phase 10 Hudson Valley Awards: $5,902,937
- Phase 11 Hudson Valley Awards: $35,957,244
- Phase 12 Hudson Valley Awards: $23,307,945
Total Long Island Region Awards: $37,694,355
- Phase 10 Long Island Awards: $12,295,218
- Phase 11 Long Island Awards: $21,935,797
- Phase 12 Long Island Awards: $3,463,340
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