There are more than 78,000 Americans waiting for a kidney transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Worse, the gap between the number of patients waiting and the number of kidney transplants performed has grown by 110% in the last decade.
Cutting the lengthy wait for a kidney will take more than innovative changes in medical practice, according to the National Kidney Foundation. As part of a new initiative unveiled in late January, Read the rest of this entry »

ST. LOUIS
,
Jan. 27
$7,500
grant to The Center for
Black Women’s Wellness, Inc. (CBWW) to support Journey to Wellness, a program
designed to address the disparity of mental health among black women.
Through education and advocacy, the program uses nontraditional modes such
as drama, movie nights with discussion sessions, and tea parties to provide
culturally appropriate opportunities for women to address fears associated
with accessing mental Read the rest of this entry »

ST. LOUIS
,
Jan. 27
$7,500
grant to The Center for
Black Women’s Wellness, Inc. (CBWW) to support Journey to Wellness, a program
designed to address the disparity of mental health among black women.
Through education and advocacy, the program uses nontraditional modes such
as drama, movie nights with discussion sessions, and tea parties to provide
culturally appropriate opportunities for women to address fears associated
with accessing Read the rest of this entry »

NASHVILLE — Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.
For those in inner-city neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the Read the rest of this entry »

Foundation said Wednesday it has revised its grant-making strategies and decided to stop making health-care technology grants this year, so it can focus on other priorities in tough economic times.
Instead, the foundation, which is affiliated with San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California, will focus on three areas, officials said:
• Achieving universal coverage for all Californians “using a shared responsibility approach.”
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Foundation study: how do diet and genes affect each other in heart disease and stroke?
Both genetics and diet play a role in your risk of heart disease and stroke, but can the two interact together to make some foods worse for people than they would be in others? That is a question that, a researcher funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon, hopes to answer in the near future.
Homocysteine, an amino acid, has been Read the rest of this entry »

08:27 AM CST on Thursday, December 11, 2008
Despite a drop in the amount of money it had to give, the Flow Heath Care Foundation gave $187,176 in grants this week to area nonprofit agencies focusing on health in the new year.
The amount is down from the $232,400 given for 2008.
Bettye Myers, the foundation president, attributed the dip in donations to the current economic climate.
She said the organization’s members Read the rest of this entry »

ETOWAH – Pardee Hospital Foundation, on behalf of Pardee Hospital, recently received approval for a $38,880 grant from the N.C. Office of Rural Health and Community Care.
The grant is awarded from the Community Health Grant funds and will support, for the third year in a row, patient costs at Hendersonville Family Health Center in Etowah.
The center operates in collaboration with MAHEC’s Family Residency Program and Pardee Hospital.
The grant Read the rest of this entry »

The Investors Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, which provides charitable funding to not-for-profit programs in the communities the bank serves , has awarded $2,500 to support the Parker Family Health Center, located on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank.
The Parker Family Health Center and its staff of volunteer doctors and medical professionals provide free health-care services to low-income community residents who do not have any type of health Read the rest of this entry »

.
has relied on the Madoff Family Foundation for about a third of its donor-recruitment budget,
. No longer.
Yesterday, the group’s executive director said he had been getting calls all day from donors who said they wouldn’t be able to pledge to the organization because they’d lost money on Madoff investments. The group, which had planned on a roughly $7 million budget for next year, is looking for $1.8 million in additional Read the rest of this entry »