CareFusion Foundation Extends Deadline for Second Annual Clinical Excellence Grant Program
The CareFusion Foundation has extended the deadline for the second annual Clinical Excellence Grant program, which awards up to $500,000 in total funding to help identify and share best practices for medication safety and efficiency in U.S. hospitals. The maximum grant for any one recipient is $50,000.
The extended deadline for grant application submissions is 2 p.m. PST on March 28, 2014. All applications must be emailed to carefusion@sdfoundation.org by this time.
Eligibility requirements and grant applications are available at www.carefusion.com/clinicalexcellence. For complete details, including grant guidelines and application instructions, please download the 2013-2014 Clinical Excellence Grants Program brochure
In the first year of its Clinical Excellence Grant program, the CareFusion Foundation awarded more than $500,000 in funding to 11 U.S. non-profit healthcare institutions to help develop and share infection prevention best practices.
Source: CareFusion Corporation
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