Grassley: $3.3 Million to Iowa from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded grants totaling $3,383,301 to eight health care and health research facilities in Iowa.
A list of the grants follows here:
Council Bluffs Community Health Centers, Inc. – $49,208 for facilities improvements and a $150,000 grant for services development. The funds will be used both to build new facilities and to develop an integrated information system for better internal information sharing.
Broadlands Medical Center Foundation in Des Moines – $984,159 grant for construction of health care facilities.
The University of Iowa in Iowa City – two research grants totaling $1.8 million from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. A $147,500 grant will be used to fund the development of an innovative psychoeducational method of prevention of oral disease and a $1,692,434 grant will be used to fund a new craniofacial anomalies research center.
Integrated Sensor Technologies, Inc., of Ames – $100,000 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The grant will be used to design integrated oxygen/organic LED sensors.
Iowa Department of Public Health in Des Moines – $200,000 grant for the Iowa Methamphetamine Awareness Program.
Iowa Federal of Families for Child Mental Health in Anamosa – $60,000 grant for the administration of the organization, which is part of the Iowa Federation of Families statewide network.
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