The Foundation recently celebrated the return of the Equity & Innovation Grants with two exciting new Hospital programs.
Equity and Innovation Grants have long been an important way for the Foundation to foster new ideas, fund creative approaches to patient care, and invest in programs fighting inequities in health care delivery.
This year, the Foundation celebrated the two grantees at an award ceremony on campus, and thanks to a multi-year partnership with BMO, each grantee was awarded a $100,000 capacity-building grant, allowing for critical investment in new initiatives that will have a widespread impact on patient care at ZSFG.
The first program to receive funding is Project REACH. This innovative program is transforming surgical care for patients experiencing housing instability or homelessness at ZSFG. By combining human-centered design, whole-person care, and on-the-ground innovations, Project REACH creates more healing environments, enables more frequent check-ins, and develops care plans that truly meet patients where they are.
Second to receive funding is the Hearing Screening Project. This initiative is tackling a critical yet often overlooked health care gap—hearing loss in marginalized communities. By integrating audiology screening into primary care visits and taking the screening test to community centers across San Francisco, this project ensures that more patients receive essential screenings for hearing loss treatment.