Superior Health Foundation awards $430K during Fall Proactive Grant cycle
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Superior Health Foundation concluded its fall grant cycle on Wednesday.
There were more than $1.4 million in requests from 24 applications. The Foundation says the requests “far exceeded” its available funds, signaling an “increasing need for support for nonprofits in the U.P.”
The Foundation distributed more than $430,000 to eight organizations.
Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions UPHCS received $59,989.90. That money will be used to provide training that its Assistant Director, Katrina Keough, says will strengthen the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
“We saw, and were told, that there’s a need to improve access for a particular population of residents,” said Keough. “This project is really just one way that we’re building a stronger, more inclusive and more resilient health system for the Upper Peninsula.”
The Implicit Bias ECHO Series training will help providers and clinicians administer honest and bias-informed care.
“It’s critical,” said Keough. “It’s oftentimes life or death for a patient or a person to seek out a provider, seek out healthcare that they feel resonates with them or is inclusive of them.”
Superior Health Foundation CEO Megan Murphy says she chose UPHCS for a few reasons.
“In addition to the importance of that provider training, it also develops provider networks so that they have more peer-to-peer support, and it will help develop some new collaborations with some other organizations in the Upper Peninsula,” said Murphy.
Murphy wishes she could help every business that needs it.
“There’s some really, really important work happening in the U.P. regarding access to care and then training and worker burnout in the healthcare sector,” said Murphy. “I’m hopeful that other communities will step up and fund more in their local nonprofit sector.”
Superior Health Foundation has been awarding grants for the last 13 years.
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