COPIC Medical Foundation

Academy of Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety (AELPS)

The COPIC Medical Foundation has a long history of supporting the Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety, a program that runs for a few weeks each summer in Breckenridge, Colorado, led by internationally-renowned patient safety experts. The COPIC Medical Foundation will continue to support one week of AELPS in 2022 (having been postponed in 2021), fully underwriting participation for 20 medical residents from states across the region. For more information, please visit www.telluridesummercamp.com/aelps-cmf.

Grants

Grant Recipients

Grants awarded by the COPIC Medical Foundation in 2022 focus on reducing fragmentation across care settings. A top concern in the field of patient safety, breakdowns in care from a fragmented health care system can lead to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative testing and procedures, and reduction in quality of care leading to general patient and provider dissatisfaction. For the COPIC Medical Foundation, contributing to a solution to this safety concern means supporting scalable or replicable solutions, focusing on the testing of new ideas or growing existing solutions, and then seeing avenues for larger application.

COPIC Medical Foundation grant recipients are making a difference in a variety of ways. The 2022 cohort of grantees include five organizations of varied size and scope that impact health care in communities across the country. The COPIC Medical Foundation awarded a total of $680,000 in grants.

Here are the 2022 recipients along with a description of the project for which they were seeking funds:

Bryan Health Connect (Nebraska)—Expand Bamboo Health clinical event notification system to additional locations across Nebraska.

Children's Hospital Colorado (Colorado)—Rollout and implementation of the ImPACT Navigation Hub in care coordination for complex pediatric patients as they transition to adult care.

Minnesota Medical Association Foundation (Minnesota)—Project ECHO focuses on the challenge of transitioning youth with medical complexity to adult care in Minnesota.

Providence Portland Medical Foundation (Oregon)—Providence and the Oregon Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Registry will partner to build a bi-directional interface which integrates Providence's Epic electronic health record with the Registry.

West Mountain Regional Health Alliance (Colorado)—Community Resource Network West Mountain, a social information exchange platform in western Colorado, will facilitate a care coordination effort to support individuals experiencing homelessness with coordination by hospitals, health and behavioral health providers, community organizations and government agencies.

Grant Philosophy

The COPIC Medical Foundation (CMF) works to improve health care outcomes through grant funding of:

• Programs and initiatives that improve patient safety and quality of care through systems changes and improvements;
• Pilot programs that are designed to reduce medical errors; and
• Development and implementation of checklists and other tools to improve disease management and transitions of care

Criteria 

To be considered for funding, organizations must meet the following minimum criteria:

Fragmentation Across Care Settings
For 2022, our grant funding continues to focus on the issue of reducing fragmentation across care settings. A top concern in the field of patient safety, breakdowns in care from a fragmented health care system can lead to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative testing and procedures, and reduction in quality of care leading to general patient and provider dissatisfaction. For CMF, contributing to a solution to this safety concern means supporting scalable or replicable solutions, focusing on the testing of new ideas or growing existing solutions, and then seeing avenues for larger application.

Request for Proposals

The COPIC Medical Foundation grant cycle is closed. We will post information about the 2023 RFP process in early November 2022.

Previous Grant Recipients

The COPIC Medical Foundation awarded a total of $775,000 in grants in 2021 to these organizations:

Children’s Health Fund, New York and National—A review, update, and dissemination of the successful Referral Management Initiative to incorporate new technologies to enhance care coordination procedures for pediatric populations living in under-resourced communities.

Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation, Colorado—The ImPACT Navigation Hub: A centralized resource hub to coordinate the transition of young adult patients with pediatric onset conditions to adult care.

Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.—Improving coordination of pediatric mental care after psychiatric hospitalization.

Kansas Healthcare Collaborative, Kansas—AlignAllHealth: A collaborative tool that combines all health information technology with highly trained clinical and care management staff to support innovative and data-driven care management processes for high risk patients.

Mile High Health Alliance, Colorado—The “Orange Flag” Project: Using historic, predictive and real-time data to inform emergency department personnel of a patient’s high utilization of emergency services to aid in care coordination.