Vidant Health presents $100,000 in local grant awards
Published 10:42 am Thursday, September 7, 2017
- Chowan area are shown here. Front row, from left, are Mandy Hall and Melissa Owens – RCCHC; Patricia Riddick and Esther Watford of Hertford County Public Health Authority; and Craig Ellison – Northampton County Government – NC Cooperative Extension. Back row, from left, are Kahla Hall, Director of Vidant Health Community Benefit; Kimberly DeRosier, Interim Director, and Ann Holland, Board Member – Mental Health America of Eastern North Carolina; Carolyn Brown, Town of Murfreesboro; Valrie Riddick, Albemarle Regional Health Services - Gates Partners for Health; Liz Reasoner, Food Bank of the Albemarle; Shari Harris, Albemarle Development Corporation – Gates County Meals on Wheels; Stephanie Parker-Helmkamp, Hertford County Cooperative Extension; E.B. Odom, Northampton County Government – Northampton Cooperative Extension; and Sandra Woodard, director of development, Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital.
AHOSKIE – Vidant Health presents community benefit grants annually to area agencies and organizations to improve health and prevent disease.
The Community Benefit Grants are administered by Vidant Health Foundation in partnership with local regional hospitals and their local communities.
Through Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, grant award recipients recently received checks from the Honorable Judge Cy Grant, Community Benefit Committee member, and Patrick Heins, president.
Area non-profit organizations submit applications to the foundation for education and intervention programs related to the top health priorities for the county: healthy lifestyles, diabetes, behavioral health, and infant mortality. The foundation mission committee selects the award recipients. Each Vidant hospital has its own program designed to meet local needs identified by the community health needs assessments that are conducted in partnership with county health departments.
Since the program began, over $1 million in grants have been awarded to local Roanoke-Chowan agencies and organizations in Hertford, Gates and Northampton counties.