Deadline: 19-Mar-25
The Doctors Company Foundation is seeking 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.
Funding Information
- In the past five years, grant awards have ranged from $25,000 to $240,000, averaging $103,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
Ineligibility Criteria
- 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.