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Bremer Giving Includes Healthcare Funding

Otto Bremer Foundation, a major funder in the upper Midwest, awards $5.7 million in grants to 106 organizations as part of its most recent grantmaking cycle.

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Home Visit Formula Funds Available (for FL, ND, WY)

The Health Resources and Services Administration is offering grants through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting formula grant program to nonprofits in a few, selected state.

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(REGIONAL PRIVATE GRANTS) Bremer Priorities Include Health, Social Services

The Bremer Foundation considers basic needs programs, including nutrition, housing and job training endeavors, and health grants.

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(GRANTS) Rural Health Grants Available, But Narrowly Focused

Rural hospital flexibility grantees in AK, MT, ND and WY may apply to the Health Resources and Services Administration for grants of approximately $100,000 to explore ways to increase access to, and improve the adequacy of, payments for acute care,

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(RURAL HEALTH) Lawmaker Vows to Fight New CMS Rule

Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) says he plans to push the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reverse a new rule that he says has placed an unfair financial burden on rural hospitals in his state of North Dakota as well as those across the country. Under the new rule, a doctor or mid-lev...

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(HEALTH CARE) Bush Foundation Supports Health Workforce in MN, ND, SD & WI

The Bush Foundation established the Bush Medical Fellows Program to enhance community health care in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and northwestern Wisconsin through the professional and personal development of selected physician leaders.

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Conrad, Whitehouse Call for GAO Health Reform Study

With healthcare reform among Americans’ highest priorities for the next Congress, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study best practices used by states, hospitals, and othe...

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Copland Fund

Deadline: Jan. 15. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program supports efforts that spread more widely the work of contemporary American composers. Other goals include: programs which develop audiences for contemporary Ame...

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IA, MN, ND, SD, WI: Award Honors Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (Sept. 19)

The Courage Center's Jacobson Award recognizes the pursuit or achievement of a business entrepreneurial endeavor by a person with a physical disability or sensory impairment.

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Lawmakers Call for Budget Increase To Indian Health Service

Inadequate funding to the annual budget for the Indian Health Service's Contract Health Service program is restricting access to essential health care services for American Indian patients, lawmakers and witnesses said on Thursday at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing. The CHS progra...

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