Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, School of Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Oct;29(10):1961-5. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0665.
Responding to the deaths and suffering of older adults in long-term care facilities following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded an initiative called Hurricane and Disaster Preparedness for Long-Term Care Facilities. Long-term care providers are now acknowledged as health care providers by most federal and state emergency response centers. This paper describes the planning, research, and dissemination efforts of the Hartford grantees. It also provides insights into successful disaster grant making, noting foundations' unique flexibility, strategic and long-term view, and ability to be a neutral convener of stakeholders that can help grantees work toward achieving major policy change.
针对卡特里娜飓风、丽塔飓风和威尔玛飓风过后长期护理机构中老年人的死亡和痛苦,约翰·A·哈特福德基金会资助了一项名为“长期护理机构的飓风和灾害准备”的倡议。现在,大多数联邦和州应急响应中心都将长期护理提供者视为医疗保健提供者。本文描述了哈特福德受赠者的规划、研究和传播工作。它还深入探讨了成功的灾难赠款制定,指出基金会的独特灵活性、战略性和长期观点,以及作为利益相关者中立召集人的能力,这有助于受赠者努力实现重大政策变革。