| The Health Resources and Services Administration
today announced 17 grants totaling $2.86 million to improve
the training of health professionals in geriatrics care and
prepare health care providers to practice in rural communities.
Awarded today are:
- 14 grants totaling $2.03 million under the Geriatric Education
Centers program to strengthen the multidisciplinary training
of health professionals in the diagnosis, treatment and
prevention of disease in older Americans; and
- three grants worth $822,747 under the Quentin N. Burdick
Program for Rural Interdisciplinary Training to provide
interdisciplinary training for health care students and
encourage them to practice in rural communities.
Geriatric Education Center grants go to accredited health
professions schools, programs that train physician assistants,
and schools of allied health. Since 1985, 375,000 health professionals
have received training in geriatrics through the centers.
Since 1990, health professions schools, academic health centers,
state and local governments, and other nonprofit organizations
have used Quentin N. Burdick Rural Interdisciplinary Training
grants to improve health care services in rural areas.
HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration awards
and oversees the fiscal year 2001 grants announced today by
Secretary Thompson. The lists of grant recipients are attached
below.
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Note: HRSA press releases are available on
the Web at http://www.hrsa.gov/newsroom.
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Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural
Interdisciplinary Training
|
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Institution
|
City
|
State
|
Award
|
|
University of South Florida
|
Tampa
|
Fla.
|
$468,345
|
|
University of Nevada
|
Carson City
|
Nev.
|
163,622
|
|
University of Wisconsin
|
Madison
|
Wis.
|
190,780
|
|
Total:
|
$822,747
|
|
Geriatric Education Centers
|
|
Institution
|
City
|
State
|
Award
|
|
University of California
|
Los Angeles
|
Calif.
|
$162,000
|
|
Stanford University
|
Stanford
|
Calif.
|
160,878
|
|
George Washington University
|
Washington
|
D.C.
|
157,616
|
|
University of Miami
|
Miami
|
Fla.
|
161,957
|
|
Midwestern University
|
Downers Grove
|
Ill.
|
107,790
|
|
University of Iowa
|
Iowa City
|
Iowa
|
162,000
|
|
Michigan State University
|
East Lansing
|
Mich.
|
162,000
|
|
University of Nevada
|
Reno
|
Nev.
|
108,000
|
|
University of New Mexico
|
Albuquerque
|
N.M.
|
161,979
|
|
Research Foundation of State University of New York
|
Stony Brook
|
N.Y.
|
108,000
|
|
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
|
Oklahoma City
|
Okla.
|
152,984
|
|
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
|
Philadelphia
|
Pa.
|
158,202
|
|
Medical University of South Carolina
|
Charleston
|
S.C.
|
161,879
|
|
University of Washington
|
Seattle
|
Wash
|
107,972
|
|
Total:
|
$2,033,257
|
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