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For over twenty years, the Living at Home/Block Nurse Program and Elderberry Institute have received support from individuals, foundations, and governments at all levels, and from corporations through their contributions and partnerships in special projects.
Example of a Foundation Partnership
In 1999 The Bush Foundation awarded a major grant to the organization for further development of Elderberry Institute. This project initiated creation of the infrastructure and sophisticated tools required to support widely scattered neighborhoods and communities working together under the LAH/BNP Model. This Bush grant was extended (for a total of three years), and with additional funding from the Blandin Foundation and the Retirement Research Foundation helped initiate the Program Seeding Fund to assist startup Programs.
Example of a Government Partnership
In 1992 the Health Care Financing Administration (the federal agency also known as HCFA) awarded a Community Nursing Organization (CNO) Demonstration grant to the organization. Known in Minnesota as The Healthy Seniors Project, this demonstration project provided enrolled seniors with a Medicare capitative home care benefit under Part A home care and Part B non-physician services, managed by nurses in four local neighborhoods and communities under the LAH/BNP model. This federal grant ultimately was extended twice (for a total of seven years), funding the demonstration through the end of November 2000 and in the process establishing four additional local Living at Home/Block Nurse Programs.
Example of a Special Project Corporate Partnership
In 1999 Elderberry Institute and several Living at Home/Block Nurse Programs worked in partnership with Ramsey County, Minnesota and Browning-Ferris Industries' "Safe America" program to provide free home safety assessments and education for elders living in their own homes. Follow-through was accomplished by the local Programs, using volunteers from the communities and local companies to install donated safety equipment such as grab-bars, railings, non-skid carpet pads and smoke detectors/batteries.
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