Adventist University of Health Sciences is grateful to the following agencies, foundations and individuals who have so generously supported our students and our programs during the current fiscal year:
Approximately 350 Florida Hospital Employees
Grace Fund
Ongoing Support - Approximately $60,000 per year
Employees from across the Florida Hospital system have committed ongoing financial support to the University Grace Fund through the Hospital's 1908 Society. The Grace Fund assists students who experience short term financial crisis involving living expenses and emergency medical and dental bills while enrolled at ADU. Disbursements from the Fund help increase student retention and affirm the mission of ADU to provide an environment where students can develop spiritually, intellectually, socially and physically while pursuing professional expertise integrated with Christian values.
Odessa Chambliss Quality of Life Fund
Ongoing Support – Approximately $15,000 per year
The Quality of Life Fund provides financial assistance to deserving individuals seeking a career in nursing. This grant assists students in short-term crisis with living expenses, tuition, tutoring, disability testing, and emergency medical and dental bills. These funds have had a direct impact on the ability for affected students to graduate and achieve state licensure (one of the Fund's Objectives).
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Advanced Education Nursing Grant (AENG)
$305,417
ADU has been awarded this HRSA grant to prepare advanced education nurses, namely certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA), through enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice. Activities funded by the grant include: targeting recruitment activities to minority and disadvantaged applicants; increasing support services for minority and disadvantaged students in the nurse anesthesia program; and developing and implementing critical interventions to increase graduate nurse anesthesia student retention.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
EQUIPMENT TO ENHANCE TRAINING FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
$271,001
This Federal Grant provides funding for the purchase of three new high-fidelity human patient simulators along with audio/visual and software technology to capture both student and simulator activity for post-simulation debrief with professors and asynchronous review by students.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS (SDS)
$53,428
This Federal Scholarship Grant provides funding to pay all or part of the costs of the tuition, books, and fees of the program for full-time, undergraduate nursing students who will help to increase the diversity of the national nursing workforce. Scholarships have been awarded to twenty-one nursing students through this grant.
Daryl Dixon
$15,000
Mr. Dixon, a generous philanthropist and friend of the University, has made a recent gift designated for special projects in the University's Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. A portion of the funds have been utilized to produce a high-quality DVD for clinical fieldwork education courses that will be provided twice annually to practitioners in the local OTA community.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT)
$15,484
This Federal Traineeship Grant provides funding to pay all or part of the costs of the tuition, books, and fees of the program for full-time, first year nurse anesthesia students who meet certain requirements. Scholarships have been awarded to six nurse anesthesia students through this grant.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
NURSE ANESTHETIST TRAINEESHIP (NAT)
$21,477
This Federal Traineeship Grant provides funding to pay all or part of the costs of the tuition, books, and fees of the program for full-time, second year nurse anesthesia students who meet certain requirements. Scholarships have been awarded to six nurse anesthesia students through this grant.
