FemHealth USA
For The "expanding Telemedicine" Project
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/16/2020
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
FemHealth USA is a nonprofit social enterprise that aims to deliver early, safe abortion services and family planning products in the United States. FemHealth takes advantage of new efficiencies, new technology, and new approaches in the delivery of care. It works to refine and expand its "carafem" model of streamlined abortion services through a network of strategically located centers. This grant will support FemHealth to expand telemedicine services, which have become more urgent and important in the time of Covid-19. (Substrategy: Service Delivery)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.carafem.org
Address
1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 805, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
FemHealth (carafem) delivers safe abortion services and family planning products in the United States that take advantage of new efficiencies, new technology, and new approaches in the delivery of care, all with a focus on destigmatizing care and providing the best experience for patients. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
for general operating support
FemHealth is rolling out a streamlined model for medication abortion services through a network of strategically located centers. This grant will support their continued growth in Maryland and expansion into Atlanta. This new network is aimed at addressing the decline in the number of abortion providers in the United States and increasing access to earlier abortion services.
for general operating support
FemHealth is a new organization that is developing a streamlined model for medication abortion services through a network of strategically located centers, starting in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and expanding to an additional twelve to fifteen centers over the next five years in areas of concentrated need. These centers will focus on improving access to medication abortion, making it more affordable and convenient. FemHealth also plans to launch an advertising and social marketing campaign to help change the conversation surrounding abortion provision. This new network is aimed at addressing the decline in the number of abortion providers in the United States and increasing access to earlier abortion services.
