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

The Harvard Pilgrim Well being Treatment Foundation this week donated $1 million to support the Massachusetts-based Group Treatment Cooperative’s marketing campaign to enhance telehealth capacities for its network of overall health facilities all through the point out.

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

C3 will place the funds into the Federally Experienced Well being Centre Telehealth Consortium, made up of thirty community overall health facilities all through the point out, such as the 19 overall health facilities that comprise C3. 

The marketing campaign has lifted $three.8 million in grants in direction of its $five million target. 

Earlier donations were made by the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Well being Progression, the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, the Landry Household Foundation, the Klarman Household Foundation, Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

What is THE Effects

The marketing campaign intends to enhance the telehealth capacity, education and infrastructure at the community overall health facilities that make up the consortium. 

It will concentrate on furnishing hardware such as laptops, cameras and headsets support for the centers’ IT departments remote monitoring devices, these as scales, blood strain cuffs and glucose monitors a “lending library” of affected person-facet telephones and tablets property phlebotomy challenge management and a extended-phrase telehealth tactic that examines facilitators and limitations to implementation. 

The grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation delivers its COVID-19 aid whole to just about $7 million considering that the commence of the pandemic.

THE Larger Craze

C3 announced its marketing campaign in May and is well on the way to reaching its $five million target following considerably less than a thirty day period of its creation.

Telehealth has been on the rise more than the program of the pandemic mainly because now everyone with internet access can obtain healthcare from property. Although most of the breakthroughs made in the telehealth globe are a outcome of the short term regulatory waivers, many hope that they will get adopted completely following the pandemic ends.

ON THE File

“These funds to Group Well being Centers throughout the location are a robust enhance to the approximately $4 million the Foundation has previously contributed to nearby and regional nonprofits, food businesses, and meal shipping partnerships in reaction to COVID-19,” claimed Karen Voci, the president of Harvard Pilgrim Well being Treatment Foundation. “Preserving these critical community sources robust is important to public overall health, in particular in underserved city and rural spots.”

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