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The California Endowment
The California Endowment's mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.
In Spring 2003, CTEC received a five-year $9,000,000 grant from The California Endowment to address the continuing crisis in rural health services delivery through the development, expansion, and support of Telemedicine and eHealth networks, thereby linking providers and clients to extensive and easily accessed health resources throughout the state.
Blue Shield of California Foundation
The mission of the Blue Shield of California Foundation is to make a contribution to the health of Californians through direct support and partnerships with organizations that share our goal of finding solutions to community needs.

In September 2005, CTEC was awarded a two-year $1,020,530 grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation. These funds will primarily be used to build upon and intensify the existing effort to solidify Telemedicine and eHealth as a sustainable and mainstream mode of health delivery to rural populations across the state. In addition, this award provides funds to support the development of 13 new telemedicine clinic sites in rural San Diego, Imperial, and Riverside counties, where access to healthcare services is critically needed.

In September 2006, CTEC received a two-year $580,000 grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation to support the planning, development and implementation of a Southern California Telemedicine Learning Center program to provide telemedicine and eHealth education to health care professionals who serve the rural and underserved regions of Southern California.
Health Resources and Services Administration / Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
HRSA works to increase and improve the use of telehealth to meet the needs of underserved people, including those living in rural and remote areas, those who are low-income and uninsured or enrolled in Medicaid.
In September 2006, CTEC received a three-year $930,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) / Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) to serve as one of five Regional Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC) in the country. As a regional TRC, CTEC will assist health care organizations, health care networks, and health care providers in the implementation of cost-effective telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations.