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  • How EHR Use Informs Safe Opioid Prescribing
    The need to better track the use of prescription narcotics has become increasingly apparent in the wake of the national opioid crisis. Moving beyond the "prescription pad" model is one big step to stemming the easy availability of opioids. Electronic monitoring programs enable prescribers to look up complete patient histories through electronic health record histories. And prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) use vast databases in order to verify prescription histories. Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in meaningful use — now rebranded as "promoting interoperability" — are incentivized to use these features. (Source: EHR Intelligence; Image: angela_sleeping on Flickr) More »
  • What's Really Driving Obesity?
    In public health we hear a lot about the impact of obesity on health. Two root causes -- eating more and declining rates of exercise and exertion -- are often listed as the primary reasons. But author and columnist George Monbiot looked at the data, and found that the main change in habits has been a rocketing rate of sugar consumption. His conclusion? Food processors have taken a similar route that Big Tobacco did, and have followed a similar denial pattern after the fact. (Source: The Guardian; Image: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash) More »
  • CMS Announces Final Payment Rate Changes and Rules
    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published several final payment rate changes and rules for Fiscal Year 2019, related to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), hospices, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and inpatient psychiatric facilities.  Skilled nursing facilities and non-Critical Access Hospitals swing beds will experience an overall payment rate increase of 2.4 percent ($820 million), or 2.5 percent for rural areas. In addition, the current case-mix system will be replaced by a new system called the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), which is projected to increase payments to small and rural SNFs and non-CAH swing beds.  Hospices will see an overall payment increase of 1.8 percent ($340 million), or 1.9 percent in rural areas. In addition, physician's assistants will now be recognized by Medicare as attending physicians beginning in 2019. Inpatient rehabilitation facilities will see a payment rate increase of 1.3 percent ($105 million), and will also see changes to several quality reporting factors.  Inpatient psychiatric facilities will see a payment rate increase of 1.3 percent ($50 million), and the payment adjustment for IPFs located in rural areas will continue. 
  • Maternal Mortality Task Force Seeks Data
    Due to the small absolute number of maternal deaths in rural states, it's been difficult for researchers to make specific, data-driven policy decisions on birth outcomes and maternal mortality in rural areas. Recently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists started a new initiative to collect data on rural maternity care and deaths. The initiative is needed now more than ever, as the availability of women's and neonatal medical personnel shrinks in rural communities.  The Maternal Mortality Task Force will collect and analyze data on rural maternity care and deaths in twelve states, as well as in Guam, American Samoa, Alberta, British Columbia, and Central America. (Source: Contemporary OB/GYN; Suhyeon Choi on Unsplash) More »
  • What Does Dollar General Mean for Rural Areas?
    Dollar General stores are often found in rural areas, and in places where residents often cannot access fresh produce. The chain is the fastest-growing retailer in the United States, and it's targeting rural towns by offering basic goods at cheap prices. Some towns object to the corporation's move into their communities, which often put local stores out of business. (Source: The Guardian; Image: NeONBRAND on Unsplash)  More »
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  • Do Something Campaigns (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    One of the largest global orgs for young people and social change, our 5.1 million members in 130 countries tackle volunteer campaigns that impact every cause. Poverty. Discrimination. The environment. And everything else. Our promise: Any cause, anytime, anywhere.  Funding »
  • Academy of General Dentistry Foundation Grant Program (Deadline: 12/31/2018)
    The Grant Program offers support to AGD constituents and nonprofit community-based outreach programs in the U.S. and Canada that provide free oral cancer screenings and education to the public, especially underserved communities that lack access to oral health care, due to geographic and/or economic hardship.  Applications accepted on a recurring basis. Funding »
  • ADHA Institute Scholarship Program - Institute for Oral Health (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    The primary focus of the program is to provide financial assistance to dental hygiene students and dental hygienists who can demonstrate a commitment to further the discipline of dental hygiene through academic achievement, professional excellence, and a desire to improve the public's overall health.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness – Federal Student Aid (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    The Program was created to encourage individuals to enter and continue to work full-time in public service jobs. Under this program, you may qualify for forgiveness of the remaining balance due on your eligible federal student loans after you have made 120 payments on loans under certain repayment plans while employed full time by certain public service employers. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis.  Funding »
  • Primary Care Loans – HRSA (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    The program provides long-term, low interest rate loans to full-time, financially needy students to pursue a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine. Loans to third and fourth year students may be increased to repay outstanding balances on other loans taken out while in attendance at that school. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis.  Funding »
  • Technical Assistance and Training Grants for Rural Waste Systems – Wisconsin USDA Rural Development (Deadline: 12/31/2018)
    Technical Assistance and Training Grants can be used to identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas, to assist in preparation of Rural Development grants, and to improve operation and maintenance of existing water and waste disposal in rural areas. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis from October 1 through December 31. Funding »
  • Low Cost Denture Program – Marquette University’s School of Dentistry (Deadline: 05/01/2019)
    Wisconsin residents who have no remaining teeth are eligible to become participants in the annual denture program. The goals of the program are to: provide hands-on clinical training to dental students early in their dental education, provide dental students the opportunity to develop their communication skills while working with older patients, and provide full dentures (prosthetics) to Wisconsin residents at very little cost. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.  If spots are filled, eligible patients are placed on a waiting list for the following year. Deadlines each year will be approximately the first week in May. Funding »
  • Otto Bremer Foundation (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    The Foundation funds a variety of work important to a community's future giving the highest priority to those opportunities with the potential to move a community forward in meaningful, powerful and broad-based ways. This broadness of vision is intentional in order to encourage innovative responses to community opportunities and challenges. Grants are made only to organizations whose beneficiaries are residents of Minnesota, North Dakota or Wisconsin, with priority given to communities that are homes and neighbors to Bremer banks. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.  Funding »
  • Community Grant - Alliant Energy Foundation (Deadline: 09/01/2018)
    Grants focus on contributing to a wide range of programs aimed at improving the quality of community life. Funding is awarded to support specific initiatives that address community needs and benefit a large number of people in five primary areas of giving: human needs, education, culture and art, civic, and the environment.  Applications accepted on an annual basis. Funding »
  • Accelerating Community-Centered Approaches In Health – Kresge Foundation (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    All organizations and disciplines within the health system have roles to play in fostering community health. Hospitals, clinics, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, insurers, public health officers and others are key to addressing the social and physical conditions that affect health. All those with a stake in creating the conditions for children to learn, adults to prepare for and excel in good jobs, and a society to thrive must consider the value of allocating resources to interventions that promote community health.  Application accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
  • Global Vision Community Partnership Award – WHA (Deadline: 07/01/2019)
    The Award’s goal is to provide recognition, financial support and public awareness of a community health initiative or project, created in partnership with a WHA hospital member, which successfully addresses a documented community health need through creativity, innovation, partnership, and collaboration. Partnerships must reach across the community or population served, and the program must be an active, ongoing enterprise at the time of the nomination.  Applications are due in July of each year. Check funding website for exact date.  Funding »
  • Green Card Through a Physician National Interest Waiver (NIW) - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    The employment category (EB-2) allows individuals of exceptional ability and individuals who are members of the professions holding advanced degrees to get a green card (permanent residence). For EB-2s a job offer and a labor certification is generally required. This requirement can be waived if the petitioner demonstrates that granting the EB-2 petition would be in the national interest of the United States.  One reason US Citizen and Immigration Services may grant the national interest waiver is because a physician agrees to work for a period of time in a designated underserved area.  Applications accepted on an ongoing basis.  Funding »
  • Rukmini and Joyce Vasudevan Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Established with a gift from Dr. Sridhar Vasudevan to honor his mother, Rukmini, and his wife, Joyce, this fund is available to female students who will be entering their third or fourth year of medical school, in Wisconsin, in the fall. Applicants must provide examples of your compassion, caring and courage or hard work despite adversity or obstacles in life.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Catherine Slota-Varma, MD Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Established with a gift from the estate of Dr. Catherine Slota-Varma, a pediatrician consistently named as a “Top Doc” in Milwaukee, this fund is available to students attending medical school in Wisconsin. Applicants must provide information on your desire to pursue a primary care career and examples of your leadership and involvement with organized medicine whether through school organizations, the AMA, or the county or state medical society.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • John D. and Virginia Riesch Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Established with a gift from Dr. and Mrs. Riesch, this fund offers scholarships for students pursuing careers as physicians or nurses. Applicants for the medical doctor award must be attending UW School of Medicine and Public Health and nursing students must be attending UW-Madison. Applicants must stress how you have demonstrated empathy, recognition of colleagues, passion for learning and the desire to share your knowledge to educate colleagues and patients. Preference is given to students who desire to practice in Wisconsin.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Robert Jason Gore Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Established with a gift from Dr. Donald and Jackie Gore in memory of their grandson, Robert Jason Gore, who was killed in Iraq, this fund is available to students attending medical school in Wisconsin. Examples of how you live the values of chivalry, honor and loyalty, and how you will use those qualities in caring for patients must be provided.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Goodman-Goodell Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Established through an estate gift from Maurice Goodman, Jr., awards from this fund are limited to students currently in their second year of attending medical school in Wisconsin who are from the Portage, Wisconsin area and who express an interest in specializing in pulmonary medicine or in general family practice.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Edmund J. and Estelle D. Walker and General Medical Education Scholarships - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    Through the Edmund J. and Estelle D. Walker Trust and general scholarship funds, the Foundation offers scholarships to students attending medical school in Wisconsin. You must have completed or be in the process of completing at least one year in medical school to be eligible.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Presidential Scholar Award - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    To recognize future medical leaders, this $3,000 award is available to medical students who will be entering their fourth year next fall and who exemplify the attributes, skills and desire to become a medical leader in Wisconsin. In addition to general scholarship eligibility, applicants must show active involvement with the Wisconsin Medical Society or a County Medical Society.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
  • Amy Hunter-Wilson, MD, Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation (Deadline: 02/01/2019)
    This scholarship is available to American Indian students who pursue training or advanced education as doctors of medicine, nurses, or in a related health field. Award amounts vary, generally $1,000 or more.  Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. Funding »
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