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DMF Workforce Grants

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The following represent DMF's key strategies in healthcare workforce grantmaking, 1997-2010:

NURSE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, ND
$10,518 - Tuition for nurse faculty to obtain Master's Degrees

Lake Region State College, Devils Lake, ND
$26,500 - Tuition for nurse faculty to obtain Master's Degrees

Sheyenne Care Center, Valley City, ND
$30,000 - Tuition for nurse faculty to obtain Master's Degrees
$10,000 - Clinical instructor for LPN/RN program

INCREASED BSN NURSING EDUCATION SLOTS

Tri-College University, Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN
$376,556 - 54 new BSN nursing student slots per year

Jamestown College, Jamestown, ND
$96,000 - 12 new BSN nursing student slots per year

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DISTANCE EDUCATION NURSING PROGRAMS

Lake Region State College, Devils Lake, ND
$169,547 - LPN distance education programs - Grafton and Northwood, ND

$8,800 - To purchase laptop computers for LPN students in Mayville distance education program

CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT (CNA) TRAINING

$9,480 - Grand Forks Career & Technical, Grand Forks, ND - CNA course for high school students

$6,735 - Riverview Place, Fargo, ND - CNA course for New Americans

$5,000 - Teamworks, Inc., Park Rapids, MN - CNA course for high school students

$8,400 - Skills & Technology Training Center, Fargo, ND - pre-CNA medical terminology class

HEALTH CAREERS SCHOLARSHIPS

$433,951 - Bachelor of Science-Nursing (BSN) nursing scholarships - Concordia College and MN State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN; North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

$41,000 - Health careers scholarships - dental assisting, dental hygienist, LPN - MN State Community & Technical College, Moorhead, MN

$16,500 - Medical student scholarships - University of North Dakota Medical School: Mack Traynor, MD, and Robert G. Rogers, MD, Scholarship Funds

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CLINICAL SIMULATION EQUIPMENT

$279,711 - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

$81,086 - Jamestown College, Jamestown, ND

$60,375 - MN State Community & Technical College, Moorhead, MN

$23,000 - Northland Community & Technical College, Thief River Falls, MN

$20,000 - Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

$14,744 - North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

HEALTH EDUCATION EQUIPMENT

$10,000 - Skills and Technology Training Center, Fargo, ND - hospital equipment for health careers training program

ALLIED HEALTH CENTER

$400,731 - North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, ND - to build an Allied Health Center on campus and a satellite site at the Skills and Technology Training Center in Fargo

MISSION PHYSICIAN PROGRAM

$133,495 - Grand Forks Family Medicine Residency, Grand Forks, ND - to recruit students from rural communities to family medicine

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DON BREEN RURAL EXTERNSHIP IN FAMILY MEDICINE

$80,000 - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND - stipends to first year medical students who participate in a summer externship in rural family medicine

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER - AHEC

$20,000 - University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, Grand Forks, ND - a pilot center in Mayville, ND (serving eastern North Dakota) working to recruit high school students and others to health careers and retain current healthcare workforce

ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON PARTNERS IN NURSING (PIN) GRANT

$125,000 - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND - match to expand the number of highly qualified nurses and nurse faculty in our rural areas

$250,000 - North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND - match to develop a state model for gerontology in nursing education

$5,000 - West Central Initiative, Fergus Falls, MN - match to train regional nurse educators in geriatric nurse education and provide long-term care clinical experiences for students

STATEWIDE HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE SUMMIT

$10,000 - To bring together nearly 200 ND healthcare workforce stakeholders

RURAL NURSING WORKFORCE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

$35,000 - University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, Grand Forks, ND - to convene the regional educational institutions which produce nurses to develop a long-term strategy to address the nursing shortage

STUDY OF RECRUITMENT/RETENTION OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS

$10,000 - Altru Health System, Grand Forks, ND - to research best practices for recruitment/retention of primary care physicians in North Dakota, especially in rural areas

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$5,500 - UND School of Medicine, Grand Forks, ND - primary care workforce shortage stakeholder engagement

$10,000 - UND School of Medicine, Grand Forks, ND - primary care workforce symposium