Will-Grundy Medical Clinic gets $70,000 grant – Shaw Local - The Herald-News

The Will-Grundy Medical Clinic successful Joliet has announced that it received a $70,000 assistance that volition beryllium utilized to prosecute a unit caregiver and enactment operations.

The assistance is from the VNA Foundation, which supports community-based wellness services for the medically underserved successful the Chicago metropolitan area.

“The enactment from the VNA Foundation volition assistance america to prolong our ngo and proceed this needed enactment serving Will and Grundy counties,” Will-Grundy Medical Clinic Executive Director Shawn Marconi said successful a quality merchandise announcing the grant. “VNA’s enactment helps to marque life-saving attraction disposable successful our community.”

The funds volition enactment the Health Partnership, a collaborative web betwixt the Will-Grundy Medical Clinic, section Federally Qualified Health Centers, section hospitals, physicians and different wellness organizations, the merchandise said. The Will-Grundy Medical Clinic screens and registers caller patients for the network.

The Will-Grundy Medical Clinic has provided wellness attraction for much than 34 years to the uninsured, underinsured, and those temporarily without entree to wellness care.

Will and Grundy counties combined person much than 50,000 uninsured residents, the merchandise said.

Since 1996, the VNA Foundation has awarded much than $53 cardinal to astir 300 antithetic nonprofit agencies passim the Chicago area, the merchandise said. During the astir caller backing cycle, the VNA Foundation awarded a full of $950,000 successful grants.

The VNA Foundation has its roots successful the historical Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago, which was founded successful 1890. The VNA gives precedence assistance information to programs successful which attraction is provided by nurses.