Enhancing the wellbeing of our communities
Every individual deserves access to medical prevention and intervention services regardless of their race or ability to pay.
Social justice is evolving to illuminate the various facets of inequality in America and the world. Healthcare and health access are critical variables that must be addressed to fully right the wrongs of social injustice. The sudden onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the health equality crisis in America, creating wider gaps and disparities in care for minority populations and underserved communities. Hitting these groups the hardest, the pandemic has highlighted the underlying issues that have plagued the healthcare landscape for decades. Not all care is delivered equally.
The challenge of accessing and receiving quality medical care has historically been determined by social conditions, including funding resources, system failures, racism, and emotional contributors like a lack of trust among patients. It is a devastating cycle in which marginalized and minoritized patients have the poorest health outcomes as a product of their circumstances.
With the failure of our current healthcare system to provide for the needs of the underserved and overlooked, it is imperative that the industry reconsider its focus and tackle the core issue: social determinants of health.
As an organization, the Johnson Jones Family Foundation is dedicated to forming community partnerships to prioritize, develop, and implement interventions for SoDH.
The Johnson Jones Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to creating a more equitable healthcare system by…
Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Social needs such as housing, food security, transportation, and education play a pivotal role in patient health outcomes. Through grassroots initiatives and making direct investments through community partnerships, we directly address the social determinants of health (SoHD). We are working at the community level, to improve health outcomes for vulnerable patients
Providing Scholarships & Fellowships
We provide scholarships and fellowships to minority undergraduate medical and dental students who major in medical professions. This focus is based on the reality that people are more likely to trust health care professionals who look them and who have similar life experiences.
Advancing Technology
Through tele-health and telemedicine services we are increasing medical care access in poor rural and urban communities with a focus on the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
Additionally, we invest in the development of devices to decrease injuries among medical personnel while increasing patient care access and services beyond traditional approaches.
Investing in the underserved
We focus on impact investments in underserved minority healthcare communities via community based medical start-ups and health programs . Our foundation supports these organizations via staffing and medical consulting , sharing our expertise in the business structure of healthcare.
“With support from The Johnson Jones Family Foundation via the Collis and Marsha Johnson Scholarship Endowment Fund, I’ve been able to excel as a third year dental student with educational resources for my dental board exams.
— S. Daniels, DDS. Class ‘19
Contact
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Email
JJFamilyFoundation@gmail.com