 Twenty projects received amounts ranging from more than $2,600 to
more than $60,500. Eight grants went to groups within the community
-- seven to Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, one to
the Elizabeth Ann Seaton Program and one to Kumler Outreach
Ministries.
Thirteen grants were awarded within the health system, including
two that were shared with SIU School of Medicine.
Since 1984, the foundation has distributed an estimated $7
million in health-related grants.
The deadline for the next round of grant applications is Nov. 1.
"These grant applications are outstanding initiatives that will
help advance patient care, education and clinical research that will
benefit the people and communities we serve," said Elena Kezelis,
the foundation's executive director.
The grant recipients are:
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SIU School of
Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery -- $60,500 to develop
clinical use of stem cells in chronic wounds, burns, cancer
resections and traumas in order to provide soft tissue coverage.
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SIU School of
Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery -- $50,285 to study the
feasibility of combining surgery and genetic treatment of
cancer.
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SIU School of
Medicine's Department of Family and Community Medicine, SIU's
Center for Clinical Research, and Memorial Medical Center --
$38,126 to measure the health literacy of cancer patients,
identify literacy weaknesses, develop ways to address those
weaknesses and explore the feasibility of a peer mentor program
for patients.
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Kumler Outreach
Ministries -- $31,085 for its indigent pharmaceutical program.
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SIU School of
Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases -- $27,391 to study a
persistent hospital-acquired infection common in burn units and
intensive care units in order to help determine a targeted
approach to eradicating the infection.
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SIU School of
Medicine's Division of Orthopaedics -- $25,525 to evaluate a
tissue replacement for anterior cruciate ligament injuries, the
most common knee injury.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Division of Nursing, Memorial Heart and Vascular
Services, Millikin University School of Nursing, SIU School of
Medicine, and SIU-Edwardsville School of Pharmacy -- $23,762 to
fund a pilot project to test an interprofessional teach-back
approach on selected outcomes for heart failure medical
adherence, 30- and 90-day hospital readmissions, emergency
department use after discharge, quality of life, fatigue, and
depression.
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Elizabeth Ann
Seton Program -- $20,000 to fund a mentoring program to reduce
the likelihood of diabetes among low-income women in four
counties.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Food and Nutrition Department -- $17,483 to support
accreditation for a diabetes education program.
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SIU School of
Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery -- $13,831 to help fund a
collaborative study among several universities to determine the
safest and most effective products to use in reconstructive
surgery.
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Memorial Heart and
Vascular Services -- $12,968 to fund a study to identify the
nursing interventions that are the most helpful to patients with
lung volume reduction and their families.
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Memorial Medical Center's Employee
Development Department -- $11,724 to purchase a cardiac patient
simulation unit for nursing education to expand clinical
simulation opportunities.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Post-Anesthesia Care Unit -- $9,940 to study the
effects of a brief post-surgery family visit in the recovery
room for patients receiving hip or knee replacement surgery.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Psychiatry Unit -- $8,415 to implement a comfort room
to help soothe patients with dementia in a separate location
from the stimulation of a psychiatric unit.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Post-Anesthesia Care Unit -- $8,119 to identify surgery
patients who are at risk of experiencing an unexpected event
while recovering from anesthesia.
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Memorial Center
for Learning and Innovation -- $7,214 for programmatic and
equipment needs of the new facility.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Nursing Outcomes Improvement -- $5,820 to fund a
critical-care conference in 2013 featuring an expert who will
discuss how to improve outcomes for ventilator-associated
pneumonia, reducing hospital-acquired infections, preventing
pressure ulcers and preserving skin integrity.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Division of Nursing -- $4,420 to fund a study to
identify patient preferences and best practices to meet the
hygiene needs of excessively overweight patients while they're
hospitalized.
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Memorial Medical
Center's Pharmacy -- $2,680 to purchase four iPads to improve
services provided to patients and medical staff by providing
portable access to the electronic medical record, drug
information and educational tools for patients and their
families.
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Memorial Medical Center's Nursing
Research Council -- $2,641 to provide partial funding for
Memorial's annual Nursing Research Conference in April.
The Memorial Medical Center Foundation secures financial support
and awards grants for health-related services that benefit people
served by Memorial Health System, its affiliates and other
not-for-profit community organizations.
The foundation makes grants only to central Illinois
organizations with 501(c)(3) classifications in communities served
by Memorial Health System. Grants are not awarded to individuals.
For more information about the foundation's programs and services
or its grant application process, call 217-788-4700. Information and
grant applications are also available on the foundation's
website at
MemorialMedicalFoundation.com.
The foundation's officers are J. Christopher Smith, chairman; Dr.
Elvin G. Zook, vice chairman; Bridget L. Lamont, secretary; Gary D.
Neubauer, treasurer; Robert W. Kay, assistant treasurer; and Edgar
J. Curtis, president.
Other board members are R. Lee Allen, Geri Lynn Arrindell, Julie
Cellini, Ann Coombe, Virginia Conlee, Dr. David L. Griffen, Jennifer
Isringhausen, Roy Newman, Rob Pietroburgo and J. William Roberts.
[Text from file received from
Memorial Medical Center]
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