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September 5, 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A recently released study demonstrates the ECHO Model is an effective intervention for improving diabetes care in rural settings. The study examined whether rural health care providers, who participated in weekly ECHO telementoring sessions, could help people with diabetes achieve similar outcomes as patients seen by endocrinology specialists working in an academic medical center. The study found…
September 3, 2024
NEW YORK, September 3, 2024 – Today, The Trevor Project and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced that they’re joining forces to support the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people across rural America. Through a $5 million grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the two organizations will develop a targeted multimedia campaign to raise awareness of…
August 15, 2024
NEW YORK, August 15, 2024 – In a recent innovation for Crohn’s disease treatment, researchers from the Stenosis Therapy and Anti-Fibrotic Research (STAR) consortium have developed reliable methods to measure intestinal strictures using both MRI and CT imaging. This advancement, published in Radiology, marks a significant step toward effective medical therapies for Crohn’s disease-related intestinal strictures.
August 2, 2024
LIHUE, August 2, 2024 – The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has added Hawaii as the ninth state in its Rural Healthcare Program, announcing a $10.6 million grant to provide Wilcox Medical Center in Kauai with state-of-the-art diagnostic and radiology equipment. Walter Panzirer, a Trustee for the Helmsley Charitable Trust, said the funding will help Wilcox Medical…
July 7, 2024
SAIPAN, July 8, 2024 – Residents of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) will gain access to life-saving diagnostic technology thanks to more than $6.4 million in grant funding from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust that will provide the islands’ first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Helmsley’s grant will allow the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation…
June 27, 2024
AMERICAN SAMOA, June 27, 2024 – The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today $3.2 million in grants to provide an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, portable X-ray capabilities, and portable ultrasound equipment to Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center (LBJTMC) and American Samoa Community Health Centers (ASCHC) in American Samoa, a remote United States territory in…
June 26, 2024
NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today a $1.4 million grant, with a matching component, to support the growth of the Kyler Cares Foundation. Kyler Cares is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health outcomes for underserved youth living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) by sharing educational resources, increasing access to…
June 25, 2024
NEW YORK, June 25, 2024 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today a $5 million grant to World Bank’s Health System Transformation and Resilience Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF), becoming the first philanthropy to contribute to the newly established technical assistance mechanism. Over three years, the MDTF will accelerate countries’ efforts to transform primary health care…
June 8, 2024
HONOLULU, June 8, 2024 — In celebration of World Oceans Day, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and global non-profit project The Ocean Cleanup are accelerating the scale-up of ocean cleaning efforts. A $15 million grant from Helmsley will support the cleanup of plastic pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, reducing the negative effects of plastic debris,…
April 25, 2024
BILLINGS, April 25, 2024 — In states like Montana and Wyoming, where the distance between hospitals in rural communities and trauma centers can stretch hundreds of miles, the ability to deliver and coordinate complex care as quickly and effectively as possible closer to home can make all the difference. The critical time it takes to get a sick or injured person…
April 23, 2024
LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2024 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is granting $11.6 million to three Nevada health systems to expand access to life-saving care for patients suffering from acute cardiac and pulmonary failure.
March 25, 2024
NEW YORK, March 25, 2024 — A $12.67 million lead grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will support the creation of the Helmsley Medical Simulation Center (“Center”) at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University.
March 21, 2024
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 21, 2024 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted nearly $13.9 million to help Wyoming hospitals and health centers purchase 143 ultrasound imaging devices and boost sonography and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training opportunities across the state. Walter Panzirer, a Trustee for the Helmsley Charitable Trust, said the grants will help improve access to…
February 13, 2024
Seven new projects supported by Helmsley’s T1D Exercise Initiative (T1-DEXI) will develop and evaluate new education platforms and modules, diabetes device algorithm improvements, new insulins, interventions, and other factors that may affect exercise
January 16, 2024
Today the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announces a major initiative to clear the longstanding hurdles standing between health stability, safe housing, and a population of people who are critically underserved: New Yorkers with complex health and social needs who are experiencing homelessness.