Vidant Beaufort Hospital and Vidant Pungo Hospital have grant funds available to help meet community health needs | Eastern North Carolina Now

For Immediate Release:

    Vidant Beaufort Hospital and Vidant Pungo Hospital have grant funds available to help meet community health needs Vidant Health wants to do more for people to improve their health before they reach the point of having to be hospitalized. That's why in 1998, Pitt County Memorial Hospital (now Vidant Medical Center) made a substantial donation to the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation (now Vidant Health Foundation) to establish the Community Benefit and Health Initiatives Grants program. In 2006 the program extended its outreach by establishing a Regional Community Benefits Grants program which works with Vidant Health regional hospitals to distribute grants to their communities.

    The goal of the program is to support outreach projects that focus on wellness and prevention strategies. The Community Benefit Grants program:


   Vidant Beaufort Hospital and Vidant Pungo Hospital have assembled a committee of local community members to review the health needs of our community and determine focus areas for our participation in this program. Both Vidant Beaufort and Vidant Pungo have identified access to care, chronic disease prevention and management and nutrition and physical activity as their focus areas for the 2012-2013 grant cycle.

    Both hospitals are accepting applications for grants or funding to support projects in the program's focus areas. Vidant Pungo's grants will focus on the northeastern part of Beaufort County and mainland Hyde County and Vidant Beaufort's grant funds will be focused on the Washington, Chocowinity, and Aurora areas.

    Harvey Case, president of both Vidant Beaufort and Vidant Pungo hospitals said, "The Vidant Community Benefit grant program gives us the opportunity to fund programs outside of the hospital that are consistent with our mission of enhancing the quality of life for the people in our community that we touch, serve and support."

    The grants will be awarded as part of the Vidant Health's 2012-2013 Community Benefit Grants Program. Only government entities or non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status are eligible for funding. (An IRS Letter of Determination is required to be submitted for the organization to be considered as a viable applicant.) Grants will not be awarded for medical research. The grant period is for July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.

    Organizations interested in receiving a grant application should contact Pam Shadle at Vidant Beaufort Hospital (975-4134 or pshadle@brhealthsystem.org) and Arden Root (944-2283 or ardenr@pdhf.org or Jenny Brown at Vidant Pungo Hospital (944-2291 or pdh@beaufortco.com)


    For more information please contact:

    Pam Shadle, Director of Marketing, Public Relations and Development

    Phone: (252)975-4134
    Cell: (252)945-3806
    Email: pshadle@brhealthsystem.org