Virtual Connections: Rural Health through Digital Literacy

This program addresses the heightened isolation and limited healthcare access faced by older adults in rural areas, exacerbated by the shift to virtual services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on the success of the Virtual Table pilot, it focuses on enhancing...

Rural Community Care Transitions with Transportation

This initiative addresses medical care access for rural older adults by mitigating transportation barriers post-hospitalization, enhancing health outcomes, and reducing hospital readmission rates. Using an integrated care transition model involving Community Health...

NURSES: A Program for Future Registered Nurses

MPCA will facilitate partnerships between universities and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) to provide nursing students with opportunities to train in underserved areas. The 60 clinical and 30 internship opportunities support...

Addressing Mid-Michigan Disparities through CHAP Expansion

Funding will enable the expansion of the Mid-Michigan Community Health Access Program (CHAP) to reach residents in Michigan’s 8th Congressional district (Flint, Saginaw, and Bay City). The project aims to identify individuals with unmet social needs, provide...

Shift: Driving a Culture of Support for T-I EMS Agency

This SHIFT project will address internal Emergency Management Services (EMS) agency culture and policies surrounding workforce mental well-being. MiREMS will complete an EMS Agency needs assessment identifying opportunities and gaps; select evidence-based, promising,...

Train Home Visitors to Support Depressed Perinatal Clients

This project will develop an innovative service delivery model that reduces barriers to care by training established home visitors to support perinatal clients experiencing depression. The University of Michigan will create a web-based training package focused on...

Collaborative Planning for Healthy Food Access in Kent Co.

Access of West Michigan will establish a collaborative that connects rural food access organizations to the existing network of food access organizations throughout Kent County, which will build the capacity for rural organizations to provide healthy foods to...

Rural Crisis Cross-Training Model

This project will train two officers in Crisis Intervention Training in order to improve crisis response and access to care in Benzie County. Throughout the grant period, partners will collect data, facilitate a leadership convening, execute deputy cross training,...

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