< Back to front page Text size – +

Mass. scores $16m in primary care grants

E-mail | Print | Comments () Posted by Elizabeth Cooney September 29, 2010 09:42 AM

Facebook
E-mail

Massachusetts has won more than $16 million in grants from a federal initiative to expand the primary care workforce.

Part of Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health Fund, the grants support education for nurses, home health aides, and primary care doctors in training.

Here are the Massachusetts grant winners and their projects, which were announced yesterday:

- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester: advanced nursing education expansion, $760,816

- Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Boston: personal and home care aide state training program, $738,993

- Boston Medical Center: primary care residency expansion, $3,840,000

- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge: primary care residency expansion: $2,879,998

- Baystate Medical Center, Springfield: primary care residency expansion, $3,840,000

- Baystate Medical Center, Springfield: primary care residency expansion, 2,880,000

- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester: primary care residency expansion, $960,000

- Commonwealth Corp., Boston: state health care workforce grants planning, $149,271

Facebook
E-mail

« Back to front page

About white coat notes

White Coat Notes covers the latest from the health care industry, hospitals, doctors offices, labs, insurers, and the corridors of government. Chelsea Conaboy previously covered health care for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Write her at cconaboy@boston.com. Follow her on Twitter: @cconaboy.

Daily Dose | More Health&Wellness

health answers

Long-term health consequences to being born prematurely? It's estimated that each year nearly 500,000 babies in the United States are born prematurely, or before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Submit question | More answers