Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences is grateful to the following agencies, foundations and individuals who have so generously supported our students and our programs during the current fiscal year:
Approximately 350 Florida Hospital Employees
Grace Fund
Ongoing Support - Approximately $60,000 per year
Employees from across the Florida Hospital system have committed ongoing financial support to the College Grace Fund through the Hospital's 1908 Society. The Grace Fund assists students who experience short term financial crisis involving living expenses and emergency medical and dental bills while enrolled at FHCHS. Disbursements from the Fund help increase student retention and affirm the mission of FHCHS to provide an environment where students can develop spiritually, intellectually, socially and physically while pursuing professional expertise integrated with Christian values.
Odessa Chambliss Quality of Life Fund
Ongoing Support – Approximately $15,000 per year
The Quality of Life Fund provides financial assistance to deserving individuals seeking a career in nursing. This grant assists students in short-term crisis with living expenses, tuition, tutoring, disability testing, and emergency medical and dental bills. These funds have had a direct impact on the ability for affected students to graduate and achieve state licensure (one of the Fund’s Objectives).
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Advanced Education Nursing Grant (AENG)
$942,582 (over 3 years)
FHCHS has been awarded this HRSA grant to prepare advanced education nurses, namely certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA), through enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice. Activities funded by the grant include: targeting recruitment activities to minority and disadvantaged applicants; increasing support services for minority and disadvantaged students in the nurse anesthesia program; and developing and implementing critical interventions to increase graduate nurse anesthesia student retention.
The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida
$100,000
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, through its Blue Foundation, has provided the Center for Academic Achievement the ability to purchase 300 electronic student portfolios and 100 self-directed search career assessments. In addition, the Blue Foundation’s generous donation is being utilized to develop the First Year Experience Course. The goal of this course is to provide new students with all the tools necessary to succeed in their journey toward becoming a health care professional.
Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation
$35,000
Through the generous gift of $31,000 from the Kaplan Grant, the Center for Academic Achievement was able to acquire additional learning assessment tools including the MBTI and 4MAT, as well as the on-line version of the MBTI. Through the use of these assessments, students have gained valuable information regarding how they learn best, study most effectively and retain information.
The Kaplan Grant also provided a $4,000 donation to the Grace Fund which is utilized to help students with living expenses during unexpected emergencies which would, without this help, jeopardize their enrollment in school.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT)
$15,705
This Federal Traineeship Grant provides funding to pay all or part of the costs of the tuition, books, and fees of the program for full-time, first year nurse anesthesia students who meet certain requirements. Scholarships have been awarded to seven nurse anesthesia students through this grant.
Campus Compact
Service Learning Grant
$14,750
The Campus Compact grant will make it possible for FHCHS to host a day institute on our campus that will provide a global vision for Service Learning and Community Engagement in the Health Care field. The Institute will focus on the critical role faculty, students, administrators, health care professionals and community partners play in expanding Service Learning in health care. In addition, funding from this grant will help FHCHS to continue to embed Service Learning in its core curriculum.
