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- August 13, 2013
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Planning and Demonstration Grant for Testing Experience and Functional Tools in Community-Based Long Term Services and Supports (TEFT) Modification
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: CMS-1H1-13-001 The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to solicit applications for participation in the Testing Experience and Functional Tools (TEFT) in Community-Based Long Term Services and Supports (CB-LTSS) planning and demonstration grant. The TEFT initiative furthers adult quality measurement activities under Section 2701 of...
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Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation Grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: HRSA-14-013 This announcement solicits applications for the Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ1] Donation Program. Qualified public and non-profit private entities are eligible to apply. This grant program is administered by the Division of Transplantation (DoT), Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), Health Resources and Services Administration...
- August 13, 2013
Development of a Public Health Science Training Institute to Increase Student Interest in Public Health Grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-MN11-11010301SUPP13 The primary purpose of this supplemental fund is to expand the current pipeline program funded under FOA MN 11-1101 to support under-represented students in public health for entry into graduate schools of public health with special emphasis on the training exposure to a variety of...
- August 13, 2013
Behavioral and social science research on understanding and reducing health disparities (R01) grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: PA-13-292 The purpose of this FOA is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on...
- August 13, 2013
Adolph Coors Foundation – Colorado Entrepreneurship & Integrative Medicine Grants
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreWith no medical training, and often against the advice of medical professionals, Americans are treating themselves to an expanding menu of complementary and alternative medical practices (CAM). Other than common sense, most of us have no way of sorting out reputable CAM therapies from quackery, but that has not...
- August 13, 2013
Help women, enter the Care Counts Challenge
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreWomen are often at the center of healthy and resilient families; they make approximately 80% of all family health care decisions and are more likely to be the primary caregivers for children and elderly parents. To help make women aware of the important benefits available to them and their...
- August 13, 2013
HRSA-14-025 Health Center Service Area Competition
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreDownload the instructions and application to the following grant here. CFDA Number: 93.224: Consolidated Health Centers (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, Public Housing Opportunity Number: HRSA-14-025: Service Area CompetitionCompetition ID: 5827Competition Title: Service Area CompetitionAgency: Health Resources & Services AdministrationOpening Date: 06/13/2013Closing Date:...
- August 13, 2013
10 quality provisions in the FY 2014 HIPPS rule to know
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreCMS’ final rule for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System in fiscal year 2014 includes several changes related to quality and patient safety. Here are some of the major quality- and safety-related provisions in the final rule, based on a CMS fact sheet: 1. CMS will implement the Hospital-Acquired...
- August 13, 2013
Featured News: Don’t fear failure. Fail fast, harness data and adapt
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreIf Silicon Valley venture capitalists were trying to fix broken health care systems, they would invest in multiple solutions at once and expect most to fail. But they would take action. That was the message from Rebecca Costa, an evolutionary biologist and a keynote speaker at the Colorado Health...
- August 13, 2013
The new normal? Shift to outpatient care, payer pressure hit hospitals
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreThree years ago, Henry Ford Health System began to overhaul how its doctors and nurses care for patients outside the Detroit-based system’s six hospitals. Now it must face the economic strains of its own success, as fewer patients turn up to fill hospital beds. Since January, the number of...