St. Joseph’s Health Receives Funding to Improve Access to Health Care

Syracuse, NY (October 1, 2018) – St. Joseph’s Health has been awarded $749,775 in grant funding by the Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) Innovation Fund. Two grants were awarded to support the St. Joseph’s Health Mobile Integrated Services Team (MIST) and the Healthy Parenting Through Wrap-Around Mother-Unborn Child & Mother-Infant Care initiatives which seek to improve the health of the community by making services more accessible to patients through innovation and collaboration.




St. Joseph’s Mobile Integrated Services Team (MIST) Award: $499,932


MIST enables advanced clinical supports to be brought into the home and community-based setting, allowing care managers and home care nurses with immediate access to medical and clinical resources – such as primary care, pharmacy, and behavioral health supports – to address care needs related to clinical complications, chronic illness, medications, and other components of personal health.




“The mobile capability of MIST makes direct deployment of clinical services available and alleviates complications that some patients experience due to lack of transportation, problematic environments, and other social determinants which might otherwise prevent patient care access, patient health support, or care plan adherence,” said Deborah Welch, Vice President for Mission Integration at St. Joseph’s Health.




Healthy Parenting Through Wrap-Around Mother-Unborn Child & Mother-Infant Care and Education (Healthy Parenting Program) Award: $249,843


Disparities in access to prenatal care lead to inequalities in health outcomes. St. Joseph’s Healthy Parenting Program uses a collaborative approach to provide wraparound services for women with high-risk pregnancies and continues its services to ensure healthy early childhood development.




The program aims to reduce or eliminate obstacles due to economic and social stressors, food insecurity, problematic environments, transportation and other social determinants that might interfere with a mother and her unborn/infant child.




“A central driver of St. Joseph’s efforts over the past decade has been a deep understanding of the need for service integration, patient engagement, care coordination and cross-sector partnerships,” Welch said. “We are grateful for the support from the CNY Care Collaborative as well as their commitment to ensuring our region has access to innovative care models that improve the health and well-being of our community.”




About St. Joseph’s Health


St. Joseph’s Health is a regional non-profit health care system based in Syracuse, NY. Offering primary, specialty and home care, a Magnet-recognized hospital, and collaboration with community partners, St. Joseph's Health advances the well-being of the communities we serve through an expanding range of services to ensure our patients achieve optimum long-term health. St. Joseph’s is ranked by Consumer Reports among the top 15 heart surgery centers in the country, a designated Stroke Center, a U.S. News “Best Regional Hospital” and the only hospital in Onondaga County to be awarded an ‘A’ rating by Leapfrog® Hospital Safety Grades. St. Joseph’s Health is affiliated with Franciscan Companies and St. Joseph’s Physicians, and is a member of Trinity Health.