Vidant Health Foundation Awards More Than $1.8 Million In Grant Funds | Eastern North Carolina Now

    GREENVILLE — The Vidant Health Foundation distributed more than $1.8 million through 132 grants for communities in eastern North Carolina for the 2015-2016 grant cycle. Grants were awarded for programs that focused on chronic disease prevention and management, access to care and nutrition and physical activity.

    "Vidant Health feels one of the best ways to empower people to be pro-active in their own health care is to give them the education/tools they need to prevent and manage chronic disease," said Dana Casson, chief philanthropy officer, Vidant Health. "This is accomplished through supporting local programs that provide: early detection of chronic illness, education on wellness and prevention strategies, community health initiatives and direct health care services in the communities where they live."

    People across eastern North Carolina have benefited from the funded initiatives. Programs take place in civic centers, Boys and Girls Clubs, churches, schools, and other community venues, helping to remove financial and transportation barriers in receiving health education and direct health services in rural communities.

    The Community Benefits Grants Program was created in 1998 as a joint partnership between Vidant Medical Center and the Vidant Medical Center Foundation to address the health and wellness of Pitt County residents. As the health system grew, the grants program expanded to include the regional hospital service areas, too. The overall goal of the program is to help people before they reached the point of being hospitalized for health conditions that could otherwise have been avoided.

    The mission of the foundation is to help Vidant Health enhance the quality of life for the people and communities of eastern North Carolina by developing relationships and securing financial resources for targeted health and wellness services.

    To learn more about how you can support one of the individual hospitals in the Vidant Health system, please visit https://www.vidantmedicalcenterfoundation.org.

    Editor's Note: Complete list of grants listed below

Vidant Health Hospital	# of Programs Recommended for Funding	Dollars Recommended	# Estimated to be Served
Beaufort	13	$110,200	37,094
Bertie	11	$100,000	37,821
Chowan	21	$130,000	13,803
Duplin	8	$73,300	13,257
Edgecombe	12	$100,000	7,146
Outer Banks	5	$100,000	2,915
Roanoke-Chowan	9	$100,000	10,132
Vidant Medical Center	53	$1,112,301	139,834
Overall Total	132	$1,825,801	262,002

1. Be Global — Teens Leading Change
2. Beaufort County Health Department — Chlamydia Testing for Men
3. Beaufort County Health Department — The Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP)
4. Higher Heights — Healthy Outcomes for Pregnant and Parenting Students
5. Beaufort County Boys and Girls Club, Triple Play (Washington and Belhaven)
6. Coastal Pregnancy Center — Families of Grace
7. Eagles Wings — Nourish the Nest
8. Food Bank of The Albemarle/Mobile Food Pantry Deployment
9. Ruth's House — Fit 'n Fun
10. Beaufort-Hyde Pantego Community Center
11. Belhaven Senior Center — Belhaven Healthy Aging Community
12. Hyde County Health Dept — Healthy Hyde
13. Blounts Creek Fire Dept — AED's

1. Bertie County Sheriff's Office
2. Albemarle Regional Health Services, Bertie Diabetes Support Group
3. Albemarle Regional Health Services/Three Rivers Healthy Carolinians, Coordinator Position
4. Food Bank of the Albemarle, Mobile Food Pantry Bertie County
5. Good Shepherd Food Pantry, Fresh Fruit/Health Information Distribution
6. Martin-Tyrrell-Washington District Health Dept — Well Aware
7. NC Cooperative Extension Service- Bertie, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
8. NC Cooperative Extension Service- Bertie, Eat Smart, Move More
9. NC Cooperative Extension Service- Bertie, 4-H Cooking Camp
10. Roanoke-Chowan Community Health Center, Prescription Assistance Program
11. NC Cooperative Extension Service- Martin County, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

1. Chowan County Cooperative Extension: Youth EFNEP
2. (Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program)
3. Albemarle Regional Health Services: Get Fit Exercise and Walking Programs
4. Catholic Charities — Family Support Services
5. Columbia Middle School: Wellness Experience
6. Columbia High School: Fruit and Veggie Program
7. Tyrrell County Elementary School — Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program
8. Edenton-Chowan Boys and Girls Club: Triple Play
9. Food Bank of the Albemarle — Backpack Program Washington County
10. Perquimans County Boys and Girls Club — Staff and Transportation
11. Edenton-Chowan Partnership for Children: Child care Health Consultant and Community Outreach Educator
12. Edenton Farmer's Market — Market Manager
13. Martin-Tyrrell-Washington Health Department — Well Aware
14. Perquimans County Schools Foundation — Water Turtles
15. Tyrrell County Inner Banks Hotline: Conflicts and Connections
16. Tyrell Co. Community Development Corp, Healthy Eating
17. Tyrrell County Government Walking Trail
18. Tyrrell County 4-H — Home Preservation of Local Foods
19. Tyrrell County 4-H — Eat Smart Move More Weigh Less
20. Tyrrell-Washington Partnership for Children: Child Care Health Consultation
21. Three Rivers Healthy Carolinians: Programming & Coordinator Position
22. Washington County Senior Center — Exercise Equipment

1. Duplin County Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H & EFNEP
2. Duplin County Cooperative Extension Service, Heart Smart Summer Camp
3. Faison Recreation and Wellness Commission
4. Duplin County Health Services, Diabetes Treatment and Prevention
5. Duplin County Health Services, Pediatric Healthy Weight Clinic
6. Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
7. Duplin Christian Outreach Ministries
8. Wallace Elementary School, Climbing Wall Exercise Program
9. Pink Hill Wellness and Education Center — Divas and Dudes on Track

1. Boys & Girls Club of Nash/Edgecombe Counties — Triple Play
2. CareNet Counseling East, Mental Health Care
3. Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — Change Initiative Expansion
4. Crossworks, Inc. Sweet Relief Diabetes Self-Management
5. NC Cooperative Extension Edgecombe County — EFNEP
6. Edgecombe County Health Department — Chronic Disease Self-Management
7. Living Water Ministries of Pinetops — Faithful Steps
8. Mental Health America Tar River Region — WRAP
9. Nash County Health Department — Diabetes Self-Management
10. Rocky Mount Family YMCA, Inc. — Coach Approach Program for Silver Sneakers
11. St. Luke Total Community Outreach, Community Wellness
12. Tar River Mission Clinic — Chronic Disease Care and Management

1. Dare County Health Department, Prenatal Ultrasounds & Breast Cancer Screenings
2. Community Care Clinic of Dare, Diagnostic and Radiology Services
3. Interfaith Community Outreach, Health and Mental Health Needs
4. Dare County Transportation, Medical Transport
5. NC Dental Health Fund/ NC Missions of Mercy — Free Dental Clinic

1. Food Bank of The Albemarle, Mobile Food Pantry
2. Northampton County Cooperative Extension, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
3. Albemarle Regional Health Services, Gates Partners for Health Coordinator Position
4. Hertford County Office of Aging, S.P.I.C.E. for Life Program
5. Hertford County Public Health Authority, Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP)
6. Roanoke-Chowan Community Health Center,
7. Diabetes Self-Management/Education Program
8. NC Cooperative Extension Service — Steps to Health 2nd Grade — Hertford County
9. Town of Murfreesboro, Parks & Recreation Programming
10. Roanoke-Chowan Community College, AED Equipment & Training

    Vidant Health, a mission-driven, not-for-profit corporation, owns, leases or has a majority membership interest in eight eastern North Carolina hospitals. The health system includes Vidant Beaufort Hospital, Vidant Bertie Hospital, Vidant Chowan Hospital, Vidant Duplin Hospital, Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, The Outer Banks Hospital, Vidant Medical Center, Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Vidant Home Health and Hospice,Vidant Wellness Centers, Vidant Medical Group and is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. On the web at www.vidanthealth.com.