Health Care Grants Available To Improve Outcomes In W.Va.

A local nonprofit healthcare quality improvement company, Quality Insights, is marking its 50th anniversary by offering $100,000 in grants to nonprofits and community organizations seeking to improve health and health care in West Virginia.

A local nonprofit healthcare quality improvement company, Quality Insights, is marking its 50th anniversary by offering $100,000 in grants to nonprofits and community organizations seeking to improve health and health care in West Virginia.

Quality Insights was established in West Virginia in 1973 and has since expanded to Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Dr. Jean Storm, medical director of Quality Insights, said the organization utilizes four tools in its work: science, data, education and collaboration.

“We have provided support for tens of thousands of health care providers, and have impacted millions of patients,” Storm said. “I like to say simply put, we are working behind the scenes to bring people and information together to improve health.”

The nonprofit plans to fund eight to 15 grants in amounts up to $20,000 in areas where its staff collaborates with community coalitions, healthcare facilities and patients to address provider care, grassroots efforts, and education and research.

The grant submission period is now open and will close on June 30, 2023.

For more information visit qualityinsights.org/50.

Author: Emily Rice

Emily has been with WVPB since December 2022 and is the Appalachia Health News Reporter, based in Charleston. She has worked in several areas of journalism since her graduation from Marshall University in 2016, including work as a reporter, photographer, videographer and managing editor for newsprint and magazines. Before coming to WVPB, she worked as the features editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, the managing editor of West Virginia Executive Magazine and as an education reporter for The Cortez Journal in Cortez, Colorado.

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