Regence Foundation Announces Three Grants Totaling $195,000

Grants to support nonprofits in Portland and Seattle that improve health care
quality

PORTLAND, Ore., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Regence Foundation today
announced three grants totaling $195,000 for organizations working to improve
health care quality. Launched in spring 2008, The Regence Foundation is the
corporate foundation of The Regence Group and was created to recognize and
promote practices that promote positive transformation of the health care
system.
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Foundation, operating clinics that largely
serve the medical needs of Latinos and farmworkers in Oregon'sYamhill and
Washington Counties, will receive $100,000 to implement an electronic health
records (EHR) system. The EHRs will help Virginia Garcia in its efforts to
create an electronic medical home for its patients.
Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp), located in
Portland, has been awarded a $45,000 grant to help build a consumer-oriented
Web site about health care quality. The Web site, operated by Partner for
Quality Care (a project of Quality Corp), will support Quality Corp's mission
to measurably improve health care quality in Oregon.
Puget Sound Health Alliance, in Seattle, has received $50,000 from The
Regence Foundation to create a secure Web-based portal to deliver performance
results to Puget Sound area clinics. The results are intended to motivate
everyone to do their part to promote better patient health, and is part of the
Alliance's mission to improve health care quality and efficiency while
reducing the rate of health care costs.
For more information, please visit http://www.regencefoundation.org.
About The Regence Foundation
The Regence Foundation is the corporate foundation of The Regence Group,
the largest health insurer in the Northwest/Intermountain region and a
not-for-profit independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association. A 501(c)3 grantmaking organization, the Foundation partners with
organizations driving significant change in health care delivery and
accessibility in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Starting in late 2008,
the Foundation will also partner with organizations addressing end-of-life
issues.
SOURCE The Regence Foundation

Joanna Burke of The Regence Foundation, +1-503-225-6860, jcburke@regence.com