The Shadyside Hospital Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the approval of 37 grant requests, totaling almost $850,000 of funding for the 2018 fiscal year. The grants have a focus on 5 program areas, including Process & Strategy Improvement, Patient Care & Satisfaction, Nurse Education, Community Outreach and Research, each uniquely positioned to improve Shadyside Hospital for years to come.

Process & Strategy Improvement

• Shadyside Improvement Model

Patient Care & Satisfaction

• The Wellness and Integrative Oncology Nurse Ambassador Program
• Family Health Center Reach Out and Read/Reading is Fundamental
• Web Resource for Caregivers and Family Members Grieving the Loss of a Loved One to Cancer
• Wellness and Integrative Oncology Support Group
• Patient Empowerment Project (PEP)
• Enhanced Depression Care Through Behavioral Health Care Coordination
• Diabetes Quality Improvement Assistant
• Create Private Setting for Cancer Patients for individual Assistance & One-on-One Support
• The Smile Cart
• Home Away from Home
• Prenatal Group Visits and Home Visits. PCHM Model: “Preventing Pre-Term Birth One Woman at a Time”
• Hair is a Smile
• Improving the Non-Pharmacological Care of Palliative Care Patients and Their Families
• Interconception Care (ICC) at Family Health Center: Moving Beyond Screening
• The Healing Wall
• Music Heals the Soul
• Yeshiva Volunteers
• Bereavement Support Program

Nurse Education

• Compassionate Care for Oncology Caregivers
• Empowering Nurses: Sustaining One Article at a Time
• Shared Leadership All Council Conference 2018
• Improving Oncology Nurse Self Care Through Stress Reduction Activities: Building Resiliency and Improving Retention

Community Outreach

• Association of Critical Organ-at-Risk Dosimetry with Severe Complications in Head and Neck Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
• Characterization and Validation of Sarcoma Patient Derived Cell Lines
• Identification of Novel Targets for Pulmonary Metastases of Osteosarcoma
• Standardization of Radiation Therapy Schedule in Elderly Glioblastoma Multiform Patients
• Use of Multi-Parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer
• Delirium Assessment Identification Reporting and Evaluating (DairE)+: Advanced Evidence-Based Practice Project with Transition to Research
• Targeting the Vitamin A – Retinoic Acid Pathway: A New Therapeutic Strategy for IDH – Mutant Malignancies