This year saw $103,992 being spent by the Foundation on
7 Special Grants
131 Special Grants applications were received, with the subject being “Healthcare Leadership Development through Research in Rural and Regional Victoria.”
Health Services Fellowship
Grants of up to $15,000 were awarded to individuals at the following institutions:
Monash University
Project – “Developing oral health teams in rural Victorian residential aged care facilities.”
La Trobe University
Project – “Tele-Rehabilitation: Can Pulmonary Rehabilitation be delivered via telemedicine technology?”
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Limited
Project – “Identifying Mental Health Related Learning Needs of Emergency Clinicians.”
West Gippsland Healthcare Group
Project – “Home visits Post Stroke Support: Identification of Service Gap Delivery and Provision of Support following discharge from a rural Acute Care Hospital or an affiliated Rehabilitation facility after stroke.”
Cobram District Hospital
Project – “Polypharmacy in Aged Care – Does a collaborative education intervention reduce the incidence and effects?”
Monash University
Project – “If we can’t access a doctor, what do we do?’ Rural access to conventional health care and its impact on the use of complementary and alternative medicine by older adults.”
Bairnsdale Regional Health Service
Project – “Developing and Evaluating Pessary use as a New Model of Care for Continence Nursing to Improve the Health of Women in Rural Victoria.”
