| State | Project Sponsor | Project Description | Partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA | Riverside County Transportation Commission | Riverside County Transportation Commission and its partner organizations will receive $185,753 for the Blythe Wellness Express, a program that provides access to preventative healthcare for South California residents. This travel navigator/mobility management coordination project will address access to services in an underserved area and involve staff from the public transit agency, healthcare providers and community volunteers. An evaluation piece will document health-related outcomes. | Riverside County Transportation Commission, Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency, & the Palo Verde Valley healthcare community |
| CA | San Diego Association of Governments | The San Diego Association of Governments will receive $160,000 to coordinate rides for patients, both those traveling from emergency rooms to hospitals for admission and discharged patients traveling to pharmacies, treatments or their homes. The project will apply mobility management as part of hospital discharge planning, helping patients learn about how to attend healthcare appointments as well as wellness activities using public transportation. | Facilitating Access to Coordinated Transportation, San Diego Association of Governments & Tri-City Medical Center |
| FL | Jacksonville Transportation Authority | The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will receive $399,200 to develop a software interface connecting medical scheduling programs and transit schedules to generate transit travel times and costs for healthcare receptionists and patients as they choose appointments. With the potential to link a large number of healthcare providers to mobility management nationally, the project will provide a pilot data set to prove the value of linking transportation options with medical appointments. | University of Florida Health, Cambridge Systematics, Smart Transit & Health Planning Council |
| GA | Atlanta Regional Commission | The Atlanta Regional Commission will receive $337,628 to provide travel training, free transit passes over a six-month period, and paratransit or reduced fare enrollment assistance to at least 200 individuals to be selected from four area health centers. The program will address the difficulty in accessing medical services via paratransit by bolstering a travel training and mobility management effort and leveraging creative community partnerships. A regional summit will explore future opportunities for collaboration, identify barriers and propose solutions. | Atlanta Metropolitan Planning Organization, Area Agency on Aging, Grady Memorial Hospital & health centers, Mercy Care |
| IA | Iowa Department of Transportation | The Iowa Department of Transportation will receive $130,560 for the Delaware County Connections Program, a rural, volunteer-based transit service that will improve the coordination of non-emergency medical transportation and provide healthcare access for people with low incomes, older adults and individuals with intellectual challenges. The project focuses on rides to wellness activities at senior centers, farmers markets and support groups. | Delaware County, IA, City of Manchester, the Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development, Veteran's Administration, Police Department, & the Regional Medical Center |
| IL | Rides Mass Transit District | Rides Mass Transit District of Illinois will receive $518,844 to establish a "one-call" center, expand mobility management services for patients at risk of re-hospitalization, and initiate transportation coordination for patients seeking drug abuse and mental health services in southern Illinois with a high rate of mental health and substance abuse and a disproportionately low number of healthcare providers. The project is intended to close the gap in access to mental health for patients due to transportation challenges in rural areas and builds on a 2015 FTA-funded Rides to Wellness Healthcare Access Challenge Grant. | MedTrans, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, Marshall Browning Hospital, Franklin Hospital, Herrin Hospital, the Rural Medical Transportation Network of the SIU School of Medicine-Center for Rural Health & Social Service Development, & Rides Mass Transit District with funding from Downstate Operating Assistance Program |
| MA | Montachusett Regional Transit Authority | Montachusett Regional Transit Authority will receive $200,000 to implement a technology that analyzes routing and dispatching among several providers to integrate management of rides to healthcare in western Massachusetts and boost under-used fixed route and paratransit services. The software will allow paratransit and Council on Aging systems to bid on demand response, long-term and shared ride contracts so people seeking fixed route, paratransit and senior ride services can request additional rides or mix rides to maximize efficiencies. The software also will determine if a provider has the capacity to deliver service. | Software companies, Ashby, & Leominster Council on Aging Center |
| MD | Maryland Transit Administration | The Maryland Transit Administration will receive $103,344 to increase the capacity of a mobility management program that addresses barriers for low-income individuals in Allegany County western Maryland who lack reliable access to transportation to receive non-emergency medical care. The program, which will be updated with transportation coordination software, coordinates and provides transportation to and from non-emergency medical appointments at no cost to the individuals. | Western Maryland Health System, the Tri-State Community Health Center, the Alleghany County Health Department & the Core Service Agency |
| MI | Michigan Department of Transportation | The Michigan Department of Transportation will receive $1 million to expand a brokerage-based program currently only available in certain parts of the state to a statewide model. The program manages and delivers non-emergency medical transportation for older adults, people with low incomes, and people with disabilities, ensuring they have access to non-emergency healthcare. The coordination software records trips reserved by county in each region based on trip types, procedures and clinic visits. Local health centers will integrate the software and refer clients to the service. | Michigan Public Transit Association, MassTrans, the Community Transportation Association of America & area health centers |
| MI | Detroit Department of Transportation | The Detroit Department of Transportation will receive $509,475 to increase mobility for older adults, particularly city residents with lower incomes and/or disabilities, to non-emergency medical care. The project will use scheduling software that improves efficiency and coordination between transportation and healthcare providers, as well as offer transportation to health/wellness/prevention activities such as recreation centers, parks, and farmers markets. | Detroit Dept of Transportation, Detroit Area Agency on Aging, City of Detroit Health & Wellness Promotion Dept, City of Detroit Recreation Dept, Healthy Detroit, Amor Transpor-tation, Rhema Home Health-care, LLC., & Tiger Transit |
| MI | Flint Mass Transportation Authority | The Flint Mass Transportation Authority will receive $310,040 to develop a mobility management program, including coordinated non-emergency medical transportation, trip planning and training. The program will provide rides to wellness appointments for behavioral health patients, dialysis patients, and primary/urgent care for families, and elderly and elderly disabled patients in Flint and nearby Genesee County, both of which are impacted by Flint's municipal water crisis. Building on a 2015 FTA-funded Healthcare Access Mobility Design Challenge Grant, the project will improve local coordination and access in the community. | Flint Mass Transportation Authority Mobility Managers, Valley Area Agency on Aging, Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, Genesee Health System, state & local Depts of Health & Human Services, Greater Flint Health Coalition, Michigan Children’s Healthcare Access Program, & Jewish Community Services |
| MO | Bi-State Development Agency | The Bi-State Development Agency of St. Louis, MO, will receive $940,251 for its Gateway Program, which features a public health mobile clinic that provides health screenings such as blood pressure and cholesterol tests at MetroLink Public Transportation Stations in north St. Louis County. This public transit and healthcare partnership creates a bridge between silos by serving the healthcare needs of public transit riders along their route. The program includes non-emergency medical transportation to and from appointments using transit subsidies, and is designed to provide underserved residents with a bridge in care until they are able to enroll in health insurance coverage options available through the Affordable Care Act. | Saint Louis County Dept of Public Health, Bi-State Development Research Institute, & Saint Louis County Dept of Public Health |
| NC | Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority | The Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority of Durham, N.C., will receive $65,600 to expand the GoTriangle Regional Call Center to improve coordinated transit planning and application assistance for paratransit riders who are low-income, uninsured or have mental health special needs. By co-locating paratransit mobility management services with fixed route mobility management services, the project will increase access to care. The project builds on a 2015 FTA-funded Healthcare Access Challenge Grant that tested solutions for transportation for low income, uninsured, or Medicaid consumers of behavior healthcare and developed a plan to implement solutions. | GoTriangle, GoDurham ACCESS, Durham County Cooperative Extension (Durham County ACCESS), Dept of Social Services, Alliance Behavioral Healthcare, Carolina Outreach, Duke University Health System, Lincoln Community Health Center, & Project Access of Durham County |
| NH | New Hampshire Department of Transportation | The New Hampshire Department of Transportation will receive $182,880 to fund the Bridge to Integration Project, a technology that will bridge the gap between Medicaid-funded transportation brokers and NHDOT’s coordination software vendor system, an innovation that will be tested at three pilot sites. The sites will test the new technology with the goal of increasing access to transportation for healthcare appointments for Medicaid recipients, older adults and people with disabilities. Under NH’s managed care model authorized in 2011, all Medicaid populations are to be enrolled in a managed care program. The result has been an increase in the Medicaid care management population. By partnering with the brokers and implementing a coordination software system, it will allow more efficient and effective coordination of transportation resources and assets throughout the state. | NH Dept of Transportation, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Education, Governor’s Commission on Disability, NH Transit Association, Endowment For Health, United Way, Granite State Indepen-dent Living, AARP, Easter Seals, Univer-sity of NH Institute on Disability, Aeronautics, NHDOT, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, Coordinated Transportation Solutions & Tri-County CAP |
| NY | Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority | The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will receive $468,566 to fund transportation to prenatal healthcare appointments for low-income, high-risk pregnant women in Buffalo, NY. The project provides participants with a transit pass as well as guidance on how to use the public transportation system for healthcare appointments. The project concept was formed through a HUD Sustainable Communities Initiative and a 2015 FTA-funded Healthcare Access Mobility Design Challenge grant. | Catholic Health, Belmont Housing, Kaleida, United Way, Belmont Housing Resources & Kaleida Health |
| OH | Ohio Department of Transportation | The Ohio Department of Transportation will receive $133,000 to fund the Mommy and Me Ride for Free program on behalf of the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio. The project, which improves coordination and access in Lucas County by leveraging existing transportation options, will provide pregnant women and women with infants access to transportation. Using the TARPS and TARTA transit systems, women will increase their access to healthcare, leading to better birth outcomes and improved health status for both mother and baby. | Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority, Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, & Ohio Equity Institutes |
| PA | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation | The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will receive $1,190,000 to fund FindMyRidePA. a one-call, one-click center and real-time transportation service serving a three-county area in central Pennsylvania. Building off the one-call center concept developed from an FTA-funded Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative project, the project will address the challenge of missed health appointments due to a lack of transportation in a targeted community, then scale it for deployment in other areas of the state. | Keystone Health, Family Health, Smart Transit, & rabbittransit |
| TN | Knoxville Area Transit | Knoxville Area Transit will receive $200,000 to expand its 2-1-1 call center as a single point of entry for older adults and people with disabilities to access transit to healthcare facilities in the region. The project will improve local coordination and access in the community and train public information staff, healthcare providers and residents on how to use KAT buses. | Cherokee Health Systems, Knox County Health Department & the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization |
| VT | Vermont Agency of Transportation | The Vermont Agency of Transportation will receive $170,000 to develop a program to train staff at Community Health Services to act as mobility managers to help individuals in the Ascutney, Windsor and St. Johnsbury regions of Vermont schedule and attend medical appointments. This will lead to better health outcomes, a reduction in missed appointments, and a reduction in the use of emergency services for routine medical care. Modeled on a program in another region of Vermont, the mobility managers will help patients, medical providers and social service agencies identify individuals most at risk and provide alternative transportation options via local transit providers. | Vermont Agency of Transpor-tation & local transit providers |
Funding Total: $7,211,518
Updated: Thursday, September 15, 2016