Humana Foundation Health Equity Innovation Fund Awards C-TAC Multi-Year Grant
The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana, Inc. based in Louisville, KY, recently awarded C-TAC a three-year grant to advance its regional health equity mission to support seniors by creating emotional connectedness and healthy lives. C-TAC will build on its foundational work in Louisville to identify and deploy trusted community leaders to connect seniors in underserved communities to community health workers.
C-TAC has launched several pilots that leverage faith leaders to connect seniors with chronic conditions to community health workers, based on the assumption that faith leaders are trusted community leaders. The purpose of these pilots is to improve clinical outcomes for seniors by expanding the range of trusted leaders beyond faith leaders only. To validate this work, CTAC plans to develop tools to assess who in the community qualifies as a trusted leader and to measure the effectiveness of different types of leaders in connecting seniors with community health workers. These tools will also evaluate retention in the Community Health Worker Model (CHW) and whether trusted leaders play a role in improvement the overall outcomes of nutrition or mental health for seniors.
C-TAC’s Vice President of Community Action and Policy, Marisette Hasan, will be recognized for excellence in nursing practice and commitment to the nursing profession by Palmetto Gold at their annual gala on April 27 in Columbia, SC. Each year, nurses are selected for Palmetto Gold through a nomination and selection process that includes nurses from across South Carolina in a…
C-TAC and the American Heart Association (AHA) launched the “Improving Quality of Life for People with Heart Failure through Integration of Palliative Care Services” initiative in 2023, bringing together a national clinical advisory council, state coalitions, health systems, and health plans in Alabama, California, Hawai’i, and Louisiana to develop a standardized palliative care referral pathway for people with heart failure….
“There are only four kinds of people in the world—those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.” – former U.S. first lady, Roslyn Carter. C-TAC hosted a virtual mixer on September 20 focusing on the needs and well-being of caregivers for people with serious illness. Bill Novelli, co-founder, and co-board chair of C-TAC, opened the mixer by stating, “When you look at the (C-TAC) mission statement, there is no part of it that is more important than caregiving.”