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$3.2M in Grants Awarded to Nonprofit Healthcare Groups

Posted on: Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 06:00 CDT

By Theresa Bradley, The Miami Herald

Apr. 4--Twenty-seven nonprofit healthcare groups in Miami-Dade and Broward counties were awarded a combined $3.2 million in grants by the Health Foundation of South Florida, the group announced Monday.

Among the largest grants are: $280,950 to Baptist Health South Florida, to train hospice workers in culturally-sensitive end-of-life care and $230,000 to the Nursing Shortage Consortium of South Florida, to place nursing students in hospitals for clinical experience, foundation staff said.

Forty nonprofit health organizations applied for the funding in the first of two award cycles the foundation runs each year to help improve access to healthcare for underserved and uninsured Floridians in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

The Health Foundation of South Florida, once part of Cedars Medical Center, was founded in 1993 when the majority interest of that hospital was sold.

It has since used its endowment to award local nonprofit healthcare groups more than $53 million.

In addition to the above grants, this cycle's winners include 19 groups from Miami-Dade and six from Broward County.

A list of the grants in Miami-Dade County:

-- Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc.: $245,800. To convert patient records from paper to computer.

-- YWCA of Greater Miami-Dade: $204,600. To fund breast and cervical cancer screenings.

-- City of Miami: $200,000. To buy and train firefighters in the use of 56 new defibrillators.

-- University of Miami Mailman Center for Childhood Development: $156,500. To move patient records from paper to computer.

-- Family Counseling Services of Greater Miami: $150,000. To hire a fundraising director.

-- Community Partnership for Homeless: $140,000. To help run a mobile dental clinic.

-- Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami: $125,000. To fund outreach and family planning.

-- American Red Cross: $122,000. To upgrade computer servers.

-- Hearing and Speech Center of Florida: $110,000. To move patient records from paper to computer.

-- Community Smiles: $100,000. To hire additional dental clinic staff.

-- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $97,500. To support the Blind Babies Program.

-- Victim Services Center: $75,000. To upgrade for Medicaid billing and move patient records to computer.

-- University of Miami School of Nursing: $70,000. To help parents plan for and gain access to health care for pre-K children.

-- Human Services Coalition of Dade County: $60,000. To pay for a chief operating officer.

-- Voices for Children Foundation: $45,600. To upgrade computers and add fundraising software.

-- Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc.: $45,315. To test a dental care model for children on Medicaid.

-- Jewish Community Services: $25,000. To review computer needs and plan an upgrade.

-- Taylor Breast Health Center: $22,500. To research models for a more efficient center.

-- Informed Families: $40,800. To upgrade computers.

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Source: The Miami Herald

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