Grant Funding Program

In 2010, The Advocates awarded 45 grants totaling $75,000 to the campus and hospital, helping to improve patient care, support medical education and enhance community health.

Departments that were 2010 grant recipients:

• AP-1
• Center for Bioethics & Humanities
• Center for Development, Behavior & Genetics
• College of Health Professions
• Division of Student Affairs
• Emergency Department
• Employee/Student Health
• Food & Nutrition
• Infectious Disease
• Nursing Case Management
• Nursing Recruitment, Retention, & Recognition Image Committee
• Organ Donor Council
• Organizational Training Development
• PatientsFirst!, Guest and Volunteer Services
• Patient Relations
• Pediatrics
• Pediatric Administration (Child Life)
• Pediatrics (Child Life)
• Pediatric Emergency (Child Life
• Pediatric Surgery
• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Psychiatry
• Regional Perinatal Center
• Social Work
• Spiritual Care
• Surgical Specialties
• Thoracic Oncology Program
• Trauma Services
• Tumor Registry

Some examples of the specific funding include:

• Nursing Career Shadow Day
• Smoking Cessation – "Let's Clear the Air"
• Upstate Cancer Symposium
• Let's Not Meet by Accident
• Nursing Case Management Special Needs Program
• Annual Volunteer Celebration Event
• Special Needs Advocacy Partners
• Spiritual Care Support
• Waiting Room Activity Enhancement