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S.C. BlueCross Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million in Grants - 7/6/2009
Columbia, S.C. – The BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation has approved grant applications totaling $1,525,924 for health-related programs in South Carolina. The grants are for periods of one to three years.
Since the Foundation was established in 2003, it has granted more than $24 million to address such issues as childhood health, community health, the increasing need for free medical clinics, mental health, obesity, diabetes, nursing and research – all to organizations in South Carolina that serve South Carolinians.
The Foundation decides on its grant awards twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. The latest round, decided May 18, includes funding for groups located throughout the state. The recipients are:
• Florence County School District 5, Johnsonville, S.C., for services to uninsured and underinsured students to be provided through a Campus Health Center.
• Communities in Schools, Charleston and Berkeley counties, for student support specialists to identify students at the highest risk for substance abuse and risky sexual behaviors.
• South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, to develop and implement pregnancy prevention strategies for underinsured and uninsured persons ages 18 and 19 in Sumter County and statewide.
• Family Service Center, Lexington and Richland counties, to replace clinic equipment and purchase dental supplies for the children and adult dental clinics.
• Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., to provide age-appropriate pre-natal care, emotional support, pregnancy and labor education, parenting skills, and future pregnancy prevention services to high-risk, low-income pregnant girls and young women statewide.
• Anderson Free Clinic, Anderson, S.C., to support a part-time nurse practitioner.
• Clemson Free Clinic, Clemson, S.C., for equipment and support for part-time pharmacy services.
• Community Medical Clinic of Kershaw County, Kershaw County, for support of a nurse practitioner’s salary and to purchase patient medications.
• Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County, for operational needs for the Darlington clinic and the satellite clinic in Hartsville, including salaries, medical supplies and medications.
• The Free Medical Clinic, Richland County, for portions of nurse practitioner and patient assistance program coordinator salaries, for medications and diabetic supplies.
• Friendship Medical Clinic & Pharmacy, Horry County, for medical and operational expenses, patient medications, pharmacy supplies and portion of staff salaries.
• Good Samaritan Clinic, Richland County, for support of salaries for staff and a part-time nurse practitioner, for malpractice insurance and medical equipment.