Center for Addiction Treatment (CAT) is the recipient of an SL Gimbel Foundation grant of $500,000, the largest grant for patient care operations ever received by the Cincinnati-area’s longest-serving addiction treatment center.
“The timing of this funding is critical to CAT’s expansion into primary care and mental health counseling,” CAT CEO Sandra Kuehn said. “This funding will strengthen our efforts to help a population that is underserved in primary care and mental health, and often encounters medical prejudice when seeking such care.”
CAT, a nonprofit facility in Cincinnati’s West End, will use the grant money to help cover the one-year cost of providing primary care services for 1,200 patients and mental health counseling for 520 patients.
The grant is intended to improve health outcomes for patients in early sobriety and in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction at CAT’s Monarch Primary Care Clinic, a Deaconess Health Check site, and CAT’s Mental Health Counseling Center.
The SL Gimbel Foundation is a partner of the Orange County Community Foundation, a California-based philanthropic organization that provides grants to individuals, families and businesses to fund a wide range of causes.
