Quality Insights Offers $100,000 in Health Care Grants

 

For Immediate Release                                                        Contact: Kasey Stevens

April 11, 2023                                                800-642-8686, ext. 3256

 

 

Quality Insights Offers $100,000 in Health Care Grants

Funding Marks Organization’s 50th Anniversary

 

          CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Quality Insights, a nonprofit health care quality improvement company, is marking its 50th anniversary by providing $100,000 in grants to nonprofits and community organizations working to improve health and health care in West Virginia and eight other states and U.S. territories.

 

          “Since our establishment in West Virginia in 1973, we have sought innovative ways to improve health and health care for everyone,” Quality Insights’ Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sven Berg said. “I am optimistic that this special grant opportunity inspire innovation, boost promising projects, and foster collaboration that advances our mission to the benefit of all.”

 

          Quality Insights expects to fund eight to 15 grants in amounts up to $20,000 in areas where its staff of clinicians, data experts and community health workers collaborate with community coalitions, health care facilities and patients to improve care across a wide range of settings, including physician offices, nursing homes and renal dialysis facilities.

 

          “We want to give back to the communities we serve through catalyzing community-driven and data-driven improvement in the quality of health and health care,” Dr. Jean Storm, medical director of Quality Insights, said.

 

          In addition to West Virginia, the grants are available for nonprofit organizations based in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

 

Applications should address one or more of the following priority areas: provider care, grassroots efforts and/or education and research. More detailed descriptions of these priorities, along with grant guidelines and the application process, are available at www.qualityinsights.org/50.

 

          The grant submission period will open on Tuesday, April 11, and close on June 30, 2023, at 2 p.m. EDT. Quality Insights will provide a grant question-and-answer webinar on May 2 for interested organizations. Attendance is not required.

 

          In West Virginia, recent examples of Quality Insights’ work include collaborating with Marshall University and the Healthy Connections coalition in Huntington on a successful public campaign to reduce the stigma of substance use disorder. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Quality Insights trained community health workers to help improve COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural West Virginia communities through education, linking health and social services, and helping facilitate access to those services.

 

Quality Insights also provides no-cost education, tools, resources and hands-on assistance to 90% of all nursing homes in West Virginia and coordinates six community coalitions, covering the entire state.  The coalitions collaborate to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and improve care for patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease.

 

Quality Insights, founded in 1973, has engaged thousands of clinicians and partners to positively impact health and care for millions patients. In the years ahead, Quality Insights intends to continue improving health and care through data-driven, outcome-focused solutions built on quality improvement science, analytics, information technology, education and collaboration.

 

About Quality Insights

Founded in 1973, Quality Insights is celebrating 50 years of using quality improvement science, education and collaboration to develop and bring best practices to health care settings and communities. As change agents, connectors and decision partners, Quality Insights has assisted tens of thousands of clinicians, positively impacting millions of patients. Odds are, Quality Insights has reached you.

Learn more at

www.qualityinsights.org.

 

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