The California Endowment is pleased to offer its Grant Application Guide for prospective applicants. We aim to focus our resources to make lasting improvements in the health of Californians. Our mission — “to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians” — remains unchanged.
Since we adopted our strategic plan in 2002, we have clarified our focus on how to achieve the mission. First, every Californian must have access to quality health services. Second, our health care system must be culturally competent to respond to the diversity and demographic changes in our state. Third, we must eliminate the disparities in health and strengthen communities to become healthy places to live.
Based on these convictions, we have organized our work around three goals:
- Access to health;
- Culturally competent health systems; and
- Community health and the elimination of health disparities.
Some call it Wiihabilitation.Nintendos Wii video game system, whose popularity already extends beyond the teen gaming set, is fast becoming a craze in rehab image therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries The hospital, about 100 miles southeast of St. Louis, bought a Wii system for rehab patients late last year. The Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital west of Chicago recently bought a Wii system for its spinal cord injury unit. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the therapy is well-suited to patients injured during combat in Iraq, who tend to be in the 19 to 25 age range a group thats very into playing video games, said Lt. Col. Stephanie Daugherty, Walter Reeds chief of occupational WakeMed Health has been using Wii games at its Raleigh, N.C., hospital for patients as young as 9 all the way up to people in their 80s,said therapist Elizabeth Penny.
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