The Brandywine Health Foundation believes  everyone deserves to be healthy 
and to grow up in a  vibrant community.

July 1,  2015











2015 Fall Grant Cycle Opens

 

Applications for funding from the Brandywine Health Foundation for the Fall of 2015 are due on-line Thursday, August 27 at 5:00 p.m.  To learn more about the foundation's Grant Priorities, Guidelines and Procedures, click here.  

 

Click here to meet some of our current grantees highlighting several exciting, effective and worthwhile programs that the foundation - and by extension, you - have helped support. The next decade will present us with many opportunities to continue to improve our community's health. We welcome your participation as we work together to bridge the healthcare gap in Chester County!

 

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Health Law

 

Since its inception, the Brandywine Health Foundation has supported agencies in our community focused on enrolling our neighbors in health insurance, including the Maternal and Child Health Consortium and ChesPenn Health Services.  On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the subsidies that have made it possible for over 17,000 residents of Chester County - and over 370,000 Pennsylvanians - to enroll in health insurance are protected.  This ruling not only means improved access to health care for the newly covered, but also means that our area's health providers will receive reimbursement for services provided to those previously uninsured.  

 

For more information about the impact of the ruling, and what still needs to be done to make the Affordable Care Act as effective and efficient as possible, follow these links below: 

 

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2015/jun/coverage-and-financial-

security-preserved

 

https://www.haponline.org/Initiatives/Health-Care-Reform/King-v-Burwell-Decision

 
Coatesville: Where Community Development and Community Health Intersect

People across the country are taking notice of the positive changes that are happening here in Coatesville. The Brandywine Health Foundation received national attention in the latest blog post of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded project called the Build Healthy Places Network, which emphasizes the connection between health care and community/economic development.   CHECK IT OUT!

 
Ronjae Jones Receives the Harry Lewis, Jr. Scholarship Award

Ronjae Jones receives congratulations from his mentor, State Representative Harry Lewis, Jr. 
"He has affected my life, as a man, role model and leader, and continues to do that for me today" remarked Ronjae.

The Brandywine Health Foundation was honored and  proud to present the f ourth annual Harry  Lewis, Jr. Scholarship Award to Ronjae Jones at this year's Garden Party.  Ronjae has been admitted to Morehouse College and will receive $5,000 each year for up to four years towards his tuition and fees. He has been selected because he has been actively involved in the Coatesville Youth Initiative, and has demonstrated a commitment to improving the quality of life in the greater Coatesville community
 
The BHF Board of Directors created this scholarship three years ago in honor of our past board chair, Harry Lewis, Jr.  With the help of numerous generous donors to the Campaign for Coatesville's Kids, we have endowed the scholarship so that it can provide young people with this life changing opportunity  for years to come.

     
For additional inquiries please contact:

Jill Whitcomb, Vice President for Development
(610) 380-9080 x103

50 South First Avenue Coatesville, PA 19320 ? (610) 380.9080