Monday, May 19, 2025
5/19/2025
Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program - Regarded as the leader for healthcare in the Wabash Valley, Union Hospital, serves as the regional hub collaborating with independent rural partners to provide compassionate care of the highest quality. Union Hospital’s Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health boasts three decades of solving issues faced by rural residents in accessing quality and affordable healthcare closer to home while training rural providers to care for these communities. The proposed initiative will build on a long history of partnership and collaboration throughout the targeted Illinois and Indiana communities the Illiana - Survivor Milestones Improving Lives Everyday (I-SMILE) Network, a newly formed community based integrated health network aimed directly at creating a replicable model that focuses on increasing the quality of life, increasing access to quality healthcare, and identifying needed resources for cancer survivors in rural communities. Union Hospital respectfully submits this application on behalf the I-SMILE network partners. Cancer survivors are broadly defined as individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, regardless of where they are in the course of the disease. This project will focus on post-treatment cancer survivors. I-SMILE will work directly with rural residents, stakeholders, and healthcare providers in identifying and investigating the barriers to higher quality of life, enhance the quality of basic healthcare services, as well as how to empower the survivor support system for those residing in the rural Wabash Valley.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).