Part of our family of companies, the Copic Medical Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that provides grants and scholarships, with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare outcomes. The Foundation is part of the legacy of our first external, non-physician board member, Harold “Hal” Williamson—reflecting his passion for giving back to the community in real and meaningful ways.
Today, the Foundation’s efforts extend across multiple states, and have impacted the lives of many. Since 1991, we’ve provided more than $12 million in funding to improve patient care and medical outcomes.
We’re on a mission to improve healthcare outcomes.
Our goal is to be a catalyst—improving the quality of healthcare delivery by reducing adverse outcomes and supporting innovation.
Hear from board members about our strategic focus and initiatives, as well as recent grantees about what we’ve helped them achieve.
Our grants
As part of our larger commitment to patient safety, our current focus is reducing fragmentation across care settings. Breakdowns in care from a fragmented healthcare system can lead to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative testing and procedures, and reduction in quality of care—leading to dissatisfied patients and providers, and potentially risking harmful outcomes.
We’re excited to fund approaches that take on these safety concerns. We’re looking to support scalable or replicable solutions (whether testing new ideas or growing existing ones).
Our grant cycle is currently closed. Stay tuned—we’ll post information about the 2025 RFP process in early November.
Our grantees are changing healthcare for the better in communities across the country. Explore their stories—we’re sure you’ll be inspired!
Collaborative Multicomponent Care for Elderly Postoperative Recovery and Fall Prevention: A five-organization collaboration addressing post-op care for elderly people with a focus on reduction of fall risks.
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Community Paramedicine Pilot Program: Paramedics are used to address inappropriate use of emergency medical services with a goal to reduce health care costs.
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Expansion of the DaneMAC Multi-Agency Portal (DaneMAP): A new web-based platform that survivors of sexual violence and post-assault care providers can connect with each other providing immediate, post-assault communication and coordination.
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Reducing fragmentation in prenatal and postpartum clinical and social care for high-risk Black and Latinx pregnant persons.
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EMT and nursing interprofessional education pilot and launch focusing on interprofessional education to reduce fragmentation and improve patient outcomes.
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Perinatal community health workers to fill gaps in maternal health, improve birth outcomes and lower morbidity and mortality in rural Texas.
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Innovative approach to improving care transitions for patients dismissed from a hospital emergency room visit or inpatient stay through use of health information exchange technology and data across the state of Kansas.
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Expand Bamboo Health clinical event notification system to additional locations across Nebraska.
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Rollout and implementation of the ImPACT Navigation Hub in care coordination for complex pediatric patients as they transition to adult care.
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Project ECHO focuses on the challenge of transitioning youth with medical complexity to adult care in Minnesota.
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Providence and the Oregon Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Registry will partner to build a bi-directional interface which integrates Providence's Epic electronic health record with the Registry.
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Community Resource Network West Mountain, a social information exchange platform in western Colorado, will facilitate a care coordination effort to support individuals experiencing homelessness with coordination by hospitals, health and behavioral health providers, community organizations and government agencies.
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A review, update, and dissemination of the successful Referral Management Initiative to incorporate new technologies to enhance care coordination procedures for pediatric populations living in under-resourced communities.
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The ImPACT Navigation Hub: A centralized resource hub to coordinate the transition of young adult patients with pediatric onset conditions to adult care.
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Improving coordination of pediatric mental care after psychiatric hospitalization.
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AlignAllHealth: A collaborative tool that combines all health information technology with highly trained clinical and care management staff to support innovative and data-driven care management processes for high risk patients.
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The “Orange Flag” Project: Using historic, predictive and real-time data to inform emergency department personnel of a patient’s high utilization of emergency services to aid in care coordination.
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Each year, the Copic Medical Foundation hosts past and current grantees and community partners at our annual Grantee Summit. At this event, we host partners from across the country in Denver for a chance to connect, share learnings and explore opportunities for collaboration related to the grant focus area of “reducing fragmentation across care settings.” This event is a key aspect of our work to achieve our goal to be a catalyst in improving the quality of health care delivery by reducing adverse outcomes and supporting innovation.
Since joining Copic in 2019, Meredith Hintze has used her expertise and experience to maximize the impact of the Copic Medical Foundation. She has formed meaningful partnerships, focused on tangible results, and built strong, personal connections with leaders in communities across the country.
Romana Hasnain-Wynia Ph.D.
Chief, Academic Affairs and Public Health, Denver Health—Denver, CO
Kelly Joines
Chief Strategy Officer, Contexture-Denver, CO
Rebecca Vogel, M.D.
General Surgery—Denver, CO
Alan Synn, M.D., FACS
Vascular Surgery—Denver, CO
Sophia Meharena, D.O., FAAP
Board Chair, General Pediatrics—Aurora, CO
Harris Frankel, M.D.
Neurology—Omaha, NE
Alan Synn, M.D., FACS
Vascular Surgery—Denver, CO
Harris Frankel, M.D.
Neurology—Omaha, NE
Sophia Meharena, D.O., FAAP
General Pediatrics—Aurora, CO
Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD
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Kelly Joines
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