HealthForce Minnesota Regional Incentives Grant
HealthForce Minnesota
Small Grant Opportunity: Unsolicited Proposals
Regional Incentive Grants
HealthForce Minnesota announced the availability of a grant opportunity in FY09.
Congratulations to our grant recipients!
Regional Incentive Grants were awarded and each recipient received $12,000 for the betterment of healthcare concerns.
- Pine Technical College (Pine City, MN) partnered with over 13 organizations in central MN and western Wisconsin to advance a regional workforce needs assessment and educational plan.
- Vermillion Community College (Ely, MN) generated a workforce needs assessment for the uppermost communities of northern Minnesota. The College will partner with healthcare providers and other regional campuses to deliver needed healthcare programs based on the results of the needs assessment.
- Lake Superior College (Duluth, MN) and Hibbing Community College (Hibbing, MN) implemented a jointly developed assessment tool to the two distinct regions they serve to determine workforce needs and program capacity in the healthcare fields.
- Winona High School (Winona, MN) developed a health care program of study with local and regional health care providers, SE Technical College and Winona State University.
Purpose of Incentive Grants:
The Purpose of the Incentive Grant was to encourage communities and organizations to initiate or enhance basic planning, research and date collection in order to:
- assess current local healthcare delivery systems
- determine local healthcare workforce shortages and potential remedies
- anticipate and plan for future workforce needs
- engage community organizations, stakeholders and the "lay community" in healthcare issues of service delivery demands
The emphasis of the Incentive Grants focused upon encouraging and strengthening local and regional efforts to address the broad array of concerns and issues confronting healthcare. HealthForce Minnesota did not encourage the use of state or national data, or related research findings, in support of the grant application.