Deadline: 18-Mar-2024
The Doctors Company Foundation is accepting applications for its grant Program.
The purpose of the Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals in training and in practice, and patient safety research with clinically useful applications. With this in mind, they focus on innovative projects/activities that develop knowledge, techniques, and tools whose application reduces or eliminates risk of adverse events that cause harm to patients while under care.
The Foundation views innovation as the creation, development, and implementation of a new or significantly improved process, activity, or model, with the aim of measurably improving patient outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Foundation seeks applicants who can demonstrate innovative approaches, produce measurable patient/clinician outcomes, and disseminate findings that result in widespread use to improve patient safety across the healthcare community.
- Applicants must be:
- Nonprofit entities
- Able to demonstrate patient/clinician outcomes
- Able to demonstrate innovative approaches
- Able to disseminate findings publicly
- Based in the United States, with proposed projects undertaken within the United States
- Projects aiming to reduce healthcare costs while improving patient safety are encouraged.
- The Foundation will fund only the direct costs associated with a project.
Ineligible
- The Foundation does not support:
- Educational lectures or conferences that are not associated with a proven method to determine post-lecture or post-conference change in behavior or outcome.
- Convening of experts to discuss a problem.
- Ideas or concepts for change that have not had at least an initial small trial of proof of concept.
- Routine safety systems that should be part of normal operations.
- Clinical research projects primarily involving the provision of medical support services to patients.
- Construction projects and the purchase of equipment/capital campaigns.
For more information, visit The Doctors Company Foundation.