Capital Infrastructure – Increasing Access to Care for Coloradans of Color

Overview

This funding opportunity is designed to improve the capacity of clinics to serve more Coloradans of color with high-quality, comprehensive team-based primary care centered on patients’ preferences, needs and values. It will provide shovel-ready capital funding to safety net practices in Colorado.

Clinics that have begun implementing a team-based care model or have one in place can apply for a capital grant of up to $400,000. Clinics will need to demonstrate the team-based care foundational blocks are in place or they are on their way toward implementing them.

Proposed programs and/or projects must reflect the Foundation’s cornerstones. These outline who we serve, how our work is informed and our intent to create health equity.

Examples of team-based care projects considered for funding:

* Facility acquisition, construction, renovation or expansion
* Medical and office equipment purchases
* Equipment and/or technology costs for patients who do not have the means to access telemedicine services. Funds can also support patient education on the use of telemedicine.
* Equipment and/or technology costs for providers to provide and/or improve telemedicine services for their patients
* Hardware, software, installation and technical assistance costs associated with health information technology systems
* Operating expenses associated with physical or information technology expansions and/or improvements

Examples of organizations considered for funding:

* Federally qualified health centers
* Rural health clinics
* Community safety net clinics
* School-based health centers
* Community mental health centers with integrated primary care services

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* To be considered for funding, clinics must meet the following criteria:
* Alignment with the Foundation’s cornerstones that advance our efforts to bring health in reach for all Coloradans.
* Serve at least 50% patients of color – defined as Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American and multiracial communities. This can be demonstrated through the Foundation’s newly required demographic data form to be filled out by every applicant.
* At least 50% of patients served are living on low income. This can be demonstrated through Medicaid caseload, number of uninsured and/or individuals on the Children’s Health Plan Plus or the Colorado Indigent Care Program.
* Must be a nonprofit clinic or public agency that provides comprehensive primary care services to a significant population of patients who are living on low income as defined above. For-profit clinics will also be eligible to apply for the primary care capital funding, provided they meet the criteria and can also demonstrate at least 50% of patients are living with low income as described above.
* Provide integrated health care services through teams composed of behavioral, physical and/or oral health care providers.
* Ability to demonstrate clinic leadership commitment in executing the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS) Standards and support for team-based primary care.
* Ability to demonstrate improved health outcomes as a result of the expansion in access to team-based primary care.
* Ability to demonstrate need for expanding access to team-based primary care.