The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, Inc., Promoting Health Care Access For All

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CHART Board of Directors

The Foundation's parent organization conducts health care research, development and education.

Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization dedicated to achieving a quality health care system that is affordable and available for everyone in the state. The Foundation believes that health care is a fundamental right. It views its work as part of a larger vision of social and economic justice for all.

The Foundation’s assets total over to $50 million. To help accomplish its mission, the Foundation has awarded over $7 million in grants since 2004. In 2007, the Foundation awarded more than $2 million for initiatives such as community organizing on health care at the local and regional levels throughout Connecticut.

The Connecticut Health Advancement and Research Trust (CHART) is the parent organization of the Foundation.

Formerly the Anthem Foundation of Connecticut, the Foundation was founded with a vision of access to quality health care for every Connecticut resident. It is one of more than 165 foundations in the United States created as a result of a nonprofit health corporation changing its ownership status to a for-profit corporation.

Among the first such foundations in the state, the Foundation is the result of a 1997 lawsuit against the for-profit Anthem Insurance Co. after it merged with the non-profit Blue Cross Blue & Shield of Connecticut.

The Foundation was incorporated in 2000 as part of the 1999 settlement agreement of the lawsuit brought by a coalition of advocates and labor, community and church groups. The state Attorney General and state Comptroller later joined in the suit. The Foundation’s share of the settlement was $40.8 million.

In 2004, the Foundation’s board of directors voted to change the organization’s name to more accurately reflect its mission, values and vision.

Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut supports efforts to ensure quality affordable health care for all residents. It seeks a just society where people and communities can be healthy and where preventive care and good health for all people is a shared goal.