Recent Grants

Thanks to a three-year Clinical Quality Improvement grant from Kaiser Permanente Northwest, we are redoubling our efforts to manage high blood pressure among our patients through daytime visits with our Patient Care Manager, a program of wellness activities (including walking and garden groups and a Patient Wellness Council) and a Community Health Worker program. Our current levels of blood pressure control at over 75% are much better than the national average (around 50%), and we know we can do even better. Stay tuned!

Thanks to generous funding from Meyer Memorial Trust, we have been strengthened to keep doing what we do well… for even more of our neighbors this year!

At North by Northeast, we take our mission of improving health outcomes seriously, and that means making sure all of our patients are receiving care of the highest quality. After each visit, a volunteer physician reviews our patients’ charts and makes recommendations for their care, and at the end of the year that same physician takes a look at how we’re doing helping our patients with diabetes and hypertension lower their blood pressure and blood sugar levels and stay on their prescribed medication. Thanks to Meyer Memorial Trust’s generosity, we’re now able to fund this physician position and see more patients while continuing to provide great care. Thank you!

(Meyer Memorial Trust is a private foundation not connected to Fred Meyer, Inc.)

In spring of 2010 North by Northeast was again awarded a $20,000 Kaiser Permanente Gives! Volunteer grant on behalf of our outstanding volunteer Dr. Lori Siegal. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest has been an enthusiastic partner of North by Northeast since our opening, and we are grateful for their continued support. Dr. Siegal has been volunteering with us since we opened in 2006, and she is one of our most dedicated physicians and teachers. We thank her for her dedication to our patients and our mission and for nominating us for this grant. This funding will help us care for more patients in our new larger space.

We have been awarded $25,000 by the Providence Community Grants Council to support the move into our new home at the Garlington Center.

On Friday, April 24, The Regence Foundation announced an award of $20,000 to North by Northeast! Six Regence employees nominated us for this generous grant as part of Regence’s second annual employee-nominated Transformation Grant program.

“I nominated North by Northeast for a Regence Foundation Transformation Grant because without their services, uninsured residents in inner north and northeast Portland would essentially be without medical care unless they went to the ER,” said Carrie Bader, Regence health coach and one of the employee nominators. “We believe that access to quality, affordable care is the foundation for a strong community,” said Michael Alexander, Regence Foundation board chair, “and we’re proud to support North by Northeast and the positive work they’re doing in a community that bears a disproportionate burden of poverty and lack of health care.”

As we move into a larger space this summer, this grant will help us expand our capacity and provide services to more uninsured adults in North and inner Northeast Portland. We are privileged to call The Regence Foundation a strong partner in the work of supporting health communities. Thank you to The Regence Foundation and those employees who nominated North by Northeast!