Funders
2040 Partners for Health seeks to improve the health of thousands of Denver and Aurora residents and employees by understanding existing health disparities and then informing, suggesting, implementing, and evaluating programs to improve ensure healthier communities. We are accountable to, and grateful for, the individuals, organizations, and communities we serve, including those who support financially. Your contributions help us improve the lives and health of over 75,000 people, and assists in informs medical research shared throughout the world.
The Colorado Health Foundation
Works to make Colorado the healthiest state in the nation by increasing the number of Coloradans with health insurance, ensuring they have access to quality, coordinated care and encouraging healthy living.
The Foundation invests in the community through grants and initiatives to health-related nonprofits that focus on these goals, as well as by operating medical education programs to increase the health care workforce.
The Foundation's assets of more than $900 million are almost evenly divided between an investment portfolio and an ownership interest in HealthONE, metropolitan Denver’s largest hospital system. The mission of HealthONE is to provide quality health care at a reasonable cost to patients and the people in the communities served.
For more information about The Colorado Health Foundation go to www.coloradohealth.org
Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI)
Transformation of the Institution:
UC Denver will create the CCTSI as the integrated and interdisciplinary statewide academic home for clinical and translational sciences.
Transformation of the Clinical and Translational Scientist:
The CCTSI will enhance, integrate, and transform training of translational scientists to develop a new generation of investigators with interdisciplinary and collaborative skills and a team approach to scientific investigation. Training programs will reach out to trainees of all disciplines (medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, engineering, basic and behavioral sciences, etc.), providing outstanding mentoring and career development guidance.
Transformation of Discovery Translational Research:
The CCTSI will transform discovery translational research (bench-to-bedside research) by providing new resources and infrastructure, integrating current and developing innovative research tools, catalyzing new interdisciplinary research programs, and removing barriers to efficiency.
Transformation of Community Translational Research and Practice:
The CCTSI will transform community and population-based research by enhancing and integrating Community-Based Participatory Research into programs that engage community participation and by developing novel methodologies and informatics platforms for translation of scientific discoveries into clinical practice.
For more information about CCTSI go to http://ctsa1.uchsc.edu
COPIC Medical Foundation
The focus of the COPIC Foundation is to increase patient safety, provider education, provider-patient communication, and to identify ways to improve the current health care delivery system.
The Foundation supports programs and initiatives that improve patient safety and quality of care through education and training of health care professionals or through systems changes and improvements, which include piloting programs that are designed to reduce medical errors and development and implementation of checklists and other tools to improve disease management and transitions in care.
For more information about The COPIC Medical Foundation, go to: http://www.callcopic.com/
The Denver Foundation
The Denver Foundation is a community foundation dedicated to improving life in Metro Denver through philanthropy, leadership, and strengthening the community. Community foundations are endowments -- permanent pools of money contributed by donors to benefit a specific geographic area. In 2008, The Foundation awarded $62 million to nonprofit organizations.
For more information about The Denver Foundation go to www.denverfoundation.org.
Healthy People 2020
Strives to identify nationwide health improvement priorities and increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress.
The goal of Healthy People is to create social and physical environments that promote good health for all and to promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
For more information about Healthy People 2020, go to: http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/
Office of Minority Health
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.
OMH was established in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health program activities affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.
OMH and its regional staff also work closely with State offices of minority and multicultural health.
For more information about the OMH go to http://www.omhrc.gov