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Rural Health Grants

A hospital's relationship with its community is an integral part of its ability to serve residents and improve their access to healthcare. Since 1995, MultiPlan's Rural Health Outreach Grant Program has awarded nearly $330,000 to help rural hospitals reach out with programs and services that address the healthcare needs of their communities.

2009 Grant Recipients
In 2009, we awarded the following ten hospitals grants of $3,000 each.

  • Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola, Indiana will use the grant to help fund their PSA Cancer Screening and Education Program for Hoosier Men, to educate the community on the benefits of early prostate cancer screenings.
  • Canton - Potsdam Hospital in Potsdam, New York will use their grant to support their "Wellness Day" health education event.
  • Clarke County Hospital in Osceola, Iowa is using their grant to help create a new telemedicine outreach service that will provide access to quality specialty inpatient and outpatient healthcare services for the residents of Clarke County Iowa.
  • Galion Community Hospital in Galion, Ohio plans to open a health clinic for Galion and Crestline, Ohio, two underserved areas. Having the clinic within the hospital will give patients better and faster access to physicians and diagnostic services.
  • Illini Community Hospital in Pittsfield, Illinois, through their Skin Cancer Prevention program, aims to reduce the incidence of skin cancer and other preventable skin disorders within their community through education using audio, visual and touch techniques at their upcoming health fair.
  • Jay County Hospital in Portland, Indiana will offer the Stop Taking on Pounds (STOP) program to provide children and their families a comprehensive approach to nutrition, exercise and weight management.
  • Johnson County Community Hospital in Mountain City, Tennessee will use the grant in two programs that focus on diabetes: a two-day health event including cooking classes along with dietitian and pharmacist consultations, and a cardiovascular screening program for diabetic patients.
  • Mauna Therapy in Las Cruces, New Mexico will use the grant to provide mental health intervention services by a clinical social worker in the southern border communities.
  • St. Marks Medical Center in La Grange, Texas will sponsor a program that performs safety inspections of child car seats and provides child car seats to people in their community.
  • Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz, Kentucky will help host the 2009 Kids Blitz Health Fair to provide fitness assessments and dental screenings for school-age children. Hospital case management staff will also be available to help parents enroll eligible children in the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program.

See you next year!
We encourage all rural MultiPlan facilities to participate in the 2010 MultiPlan Rural Health Outreach Grant Program. We will announce the program in spring 2010 to all eligible MultiPlan providers. You can also check back here for program information.

MultiPlan Rural Health Outreach Grant Recipients
Read about our previous MultiPlan Rural Health Outreach Grant Recipients.

Eligibility requirements
Applying hospitals must meet the following requirements to be eligible for a Rural Health Outreach Grant:

  • The applicant must be a hospital in a rural area. We define rural as having population less than 1,000 persons per square mile.
  • The facility must provide acute care.
  • The facility must be considered an inpatient hospital.
  • The applicant must be a participating provider of the MultiPlan, PHCS or HealthEOS networks.
  • The grant award may be used to replicate an outreach program conducted at another hospital or establish a new community outreach program.
  • The community outreach program must be access-oriented; it must enhance its community's access to quality health care.
  • The applicant must demonstrate how it will assess and monitor the progress of the proposed community outreach program.
  • The applicant must show that, through the proposed outreach program, a new population will be served or a new service will be offered to an existing population, for example, through health screenings.
  • A community or hospital minimum equal match (either cash or in-kind) is encouraged and preferred, although it is not required.

For more information about the MultiPlan Rural Health Outreach Grant Program, contact us at rural@multiplan.com.