Marin County initiative to address opioid abuse gains steam
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
While the grant doesn't allow emergency rooms to serve as dispensers, the program will utilize the services of Bright Heart Health, a telemedicine service based in San Ramon, to connect hospital...more

Summer learning loss program to benefit from Health Equity Fund grant
Foundation: Community Foundation of Louisville, Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Children receive literacy instruction in the mornings and take part in enrichment activities in the afternoons that are focused on things like active physical play, arts and music, and character...more

Preventing, treating STDs is doable with access to care, education
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Like Atlantic County, Cumberland County health officials said they partner with health providers to increase access to STD screening, prevention and testing in ... Even disease like herpes and HIV,...more

Price Transparency Strategy Needs Improvement
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Mehrotra reports receiving grants from CalPERS, grants from Laura and John Arnold Foundation, grants from the National Institutes of Health, and grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation outside...more

Blockchain in space, a writing fellowship and more
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The study of blockchain in space. A community service scholarship. A new writing and publishing fellowship. Northeast Ohio's college and universities have been busy announcing how they'll be using...more

Racine Unified focuses on students' mental health
Foundation: Johnson Foundation
The grant, funded through the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin, provides 10 communities throughout Wisconsin with $1.5 million dollars over an eight-year...more

Officials dig deep to find root cause of county's low rank in health outcomes
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mesa County ranks in the bottom half of the state for health outcomes and health factors, according to a national study released earlier this month that ... But rather than seek grant money to battle...more

Hospitals lift flu restrictions
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mental Health America of Northeast Indiana announced that they received a $35,000 grant from the Parkview Community Health Improvement Program to fund MHANI's peer support program. The peer support...more

The Health 202: This abortion fight derailed a bipartisan Obamacare fix in spending bill
Foundation: Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A big part of the difference is due to new opioids funding, with lawmakers providing $2.6 billion in new funding specifically for HHS and doubling to $1 billion a state block grant program. Substance...more

This Health Funder Has Joined the Fight Against Opioids. Where Is Everyone Else?
Foundation: GE Foundation, Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Most philanthropic work on the crisis is happening locally, led by foundations embedded in those communities, like the Colorado Health Foundation. ... Substance abuse officially became part of the...more