Posted on October 18, 2012
Deadline: December 7, 2012

Cardinal Health Foundation Offers Grants to Improve Patient Safety

The Cardinal Health Foundation has announced that, for the sixth consecutive year, it will award grants to help United States, Canadian, and Puerto Rican hospitals, health systems, community health clinics, and other nonprofit healthcare institutions improve the efficiency and quality of their patient care.

The foundation's E3 Grant Program will fund projects designed to improve medication safety, particularly as patients move from hospital environments to home and other healthcare settings; or for projects to improve operating room safety through use of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist.

The program supports the implementation of evidence-based practices that have been identified as successful and lead to positive patient outcomes. While the implementation of evidenced-based practices with quantifiable outcomes is the goal, the program also encourages grantees to be innovative in the way the projects are implemented so that the work can be sustained as well as spread to other institutions.

Eligible applicants are nonprofit healthcare institutions including those in acute and ambulatory settings working in partnership with each other or independently. Collaboratives are also eligible.

The foundation anticipates awarding approximately twenty-five grants of between $15,000 and $35,000.

Complete proposal guidelines, an FAQ, and summaries from successful E3 Grant Program proposals are available at the Cardinal Health community Web site.

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Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Health
Geographic Funding Area: National

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