{"id":7492,"date":"2018-05-23T15:36:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/19\/furman-receives-grant-for-healthy-greenville-project\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:27","slug":"furman-receives-grant-for-healthy-greenville-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-receives-grant-for-healthy-greenville-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman receives grant for Healthy Greenville project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) has received a $592,486 grant for a project that addresses care for Greenville\u2019s senior adult population through the Healthy Greenville initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is part of $5.3 million approved by the Greenville Health Authority (GHA) Board of Trustees to improve health-related care, health education and health research for the citizens of Greenville County.<\/p>\n<p>Furman\u2019s three-year grant covers the work of a coalition that tackles health-harming legal barriers in the senior adult community. The coalition, led by Furman\u2019s IACH, includes Greenville Health System and South Carolina Legal Services.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36309\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36309\" class=\"wp-image-36309 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/eli-hestermann-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"270\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 425px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 425\/270;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director, Furman Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, Eli Hestermann<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Said Eli Hestermann, executive director of IACH, \u201cWith the support of the Greenville Health Authority, we are able to expand our successful Medical-Legal Partnership model that currently serves children and their families to now include the senior population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about these additional opportunities to improve the health of some of our most vulnerable citizens while expanding hands-on learning opportunities for Furman students at the intersection of medicine and law,\u201d added Hestermann.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Furman\u2019s IACH, others receiving grants for the Healthy Greenville initiative include Greenville Free Medical Clinic; Clemson University Department of Public Health Sciences; Pendleton Place; The Phoenix Center; and Communities in Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Including previously approved grants from fiscal year 2017, the total amount of grant\u00a0 funding invested in Healthy Greenville by GHA is approximately $17.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese [Healthy Greenville] programs will make Greenville County a healthier community and significantly improve the quality of life for families county-wide,\u201d said Mike Ellison, chair of the GHA grant committee, which reviewed more than 49 proposed grants for this year\u2019s cycle.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the grant or Furman\u2019s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, contact Eli Hestermann at <a href=\"mailto:eli.hestermann@furman.edu\">eli.hestermann@furman.edu<\/a> and 864-294-3527.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) has received a $592,486 grant for a project that addresses care for Greenville\u2019s senior adult population through the Healthy Greenville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":18044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,17,65,72,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-centers-and-institutes","category-institute-for-the-advancement-of-community-health","category-medical-legal-partnership","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}