Receiving treatment from a healthcare provider only happens after you’ve gained access.
Those facing barriers to healthcare access often find themselves asking:
Our work to remove barriers to healthcare access includes investments in these organizations:
Organization
Award Total
Award Name
Award Impact
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support antibody testing during the COVID pandemic to ensure a safe blood supply, provide information to individual donors related to their antibody status, and collect information to help inform public health decision-making.
$12,316
Hurricane Helene Relief
To purchase a generator for their Sylva location to address client needs during future emergencies.
$60,500
To support their collaborative work when law enforcement, departments of social services, and medical professionals are called in to investigate cases of alleged child abuse and/or neglect.
$35,000
To enhance their ability to provide free dental services to those in need.
$13,203
2 Cycles of Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase fetal non-stress test equipment and an ultrasound machine to treat expectant mothers.
$35,000
To expand the clinic’s ability to add new low-income clients.
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To provide client services during a time of higher demand caused by a natural disaster.
Clay County Emergency Medical Services
$107,500
To establish their community paramedic program and to purchase new digital equipment to enhance their services to the community during natural disasters.
Clay County Department of Public Health
$90,000
Inaugural Awards
To expand their dental clinic offerings.
Clay County Schools
$74,613
To establish a school-based counselor and to build three school nursing stations to care for students and the broader community across their combined campus.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase face coverings and hand sanitizers during the COVID pandemic to supply as protective equipment to churches and small businesses located in Swain County, while serving to build momentum and support for the work of the Coalition.
$70,000
First, to support their effort to increase access to healthcare and medication assistance during the COVID pandemic, then to add laboratory services and urgent diagnostic imaging services through a partnership with a local hospital.
$25,000
Direct Distribution
To support their work during the COVID pandemic to ensure rapid response to necessary healthcare measures.
$19,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative (2 Cycles)
To purchase temperature kiosks during the COVID pandemic; later to establish a health clinic within Graham County Schools to provide direct access to mental health services.
$9,183
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase first aid kits for patrol cars, thus ensuring sheriff’s department officers may provide first-responder medical care as needed.
$13,183
To support their clients’ mental health and food security needs..
$37,500
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To support the growing number of Jackson County students in need of access to food, education support, and mental health services as a result of the COVID pandemic.
$72,500
Bivens Hospice Fund
To fund various essential elements required to offer in-house hospice services to the people of Western North Carolina.
$27,500
To support the establishment of a child medical evaluation program, then to support the increased need for their work during the Hurricane Helene aftermath.
Macon County Emergency Medical Services
$37,000
Inaugural Awards
To support their work with enhancements to their technology.
Macon Medication Assistance
$45,000
Inaugural Awards
To support their work to assist low-income residents afford their medication.
$2,500
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
To support their work to assist those in need of mental health services.
$62,106
First, to support short-term student housing for rural fellowship participants, then to hire a community health worker on the Qualla Boundary to support members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians through culturally responsive community outreach during the COVID pandemic.
$5,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To ensure a 24-hour crisis line is available for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
Swain County Emergency Medical Services
$95,000
Inaugural Awards
To support the launch of the county’s community paramedicine program.
$75,000
First, to expand public dental services to those in need; next, to continue their in-home aide and chore program for homebound county residents.
$144,500
To support their collaborative work to establish a Lantinx Community Health Hub where uninsured, low-income Latinx community members may seek a variety of human and health services in a confidential manner and in a culturally appropriate, Spanish-speaking environment.
$52,500
To support their work to provide dental care services to veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.
$25,000
Direct Distribution
Support for the Rathbun House, a regional asset providing a place for caregivers and family members to stay when accompanying patients receiving medical care at an Asheville hospital.
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