Funding News

MT Toasts Recovery Month with $4M Funding Boost
   Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) kicks of this year's Recovery Month with a historic $4 million funding measure to expand the state's drug and alcohol treatment.
posted 8/31/07 2:35 PM  read complete story

IN: County Wins Drug-Free Communities Grant for 'True Prevention'
   Madison County's Healthy, Tobacco-Free Madison County is one of 90 groups throughout the country to receive a federal Drug-Free Communities grant.
posted 8/31/07 2:32 PM  read complete story

Labor Dept, Foundations Create New Job Program Partnership
   Local workforce initiatives will be eligible for grants, technical assistance, evaluations and other services.
posted 8/31/07 2:30 PM  read complete story

White House Awards 736 Drug-Free Communities Grants
   The White House Office of Nat'l Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) awards grants totaling $74 million to advance community-level anti-drug efforts.
posted 8/27/07 3:16 PM  read complete story

OR: Legislature Passes Bill to Improve MH, Addiction Funding
   Lawmakers have been working for several sessions to pass the bill, which revises the state funding formula to reflect population changes county-by-county.
posted 8/27/07 3:11 PM  read complete story

TX Gets Pilot Needle Exchange Program
   Many hope the success of the pilot program will help to create support for the creation of a larger statewide program in the near future.
posted 8/27/07 2:56 PM  read complete story

FUNDING NEWS: FUNDING NEWS: CBO Report Finds Economic Improvement
    Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), tells CHF new data indicate an improved outlook for short-term budget concerns, but the long-term picture still remains daunting, because the federal government is increasingly becoming "a healthcare agency with side businesses."...
posted 8/23/07 2:03 PM  read complete story

FUNDING NEWS: Health Savings Accounts Could Have Big Year in 2008
    Enrollment in high-deductible health plans linked with health savings accounts (HSA) has continued to increase since they first became available in 2004, but 2008 could be their break-out year, say some healthcare consultants.Consultants sayenrollment in high-deductible health plans linked wit...
posted 8/23/07 1:48 PM  read complete story

States Report Less Money On Hand, Programs Could Be Cut
   New data showing states have less money on hand this year should be a "yellow flag" to any states considering new tax cuts or expansion of service programs, budget experts warn.
posted 8/23/07 1:31 PM  read complete story

FUNDING NEWS: Los Angeles' King-Harbor to Close after Losing Federal Funding
     California: CMS officials decide that Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, which serves one of Los Angeles' lowest-income neighborhoods, no longer will be eligible to receive $200 million in federal funding after failing two inspections.The hospital historically has served the county'...
posted 8/20/07 2:34 PM  read complete story