Springfield health organizations receive $870,789 in grants

CoxHealth Diabetes Center received the largest grant, for $428,775. Cox will use the three-year grant to add a diabetes-education and case-management program to its Diabetes Center, where about 2,500 underinsured, uninsured or high-risk individuals will be served.

Jordan Valley Community Health Center also was awarded a hefty three-year grant for $392,755, to be used to offer comprehensive diabetes care to 1,900 high-risk individuals.

Both diabetes-related grants are part of the foundation’s Better Self-Management of Diabetes effort.

In Bolivar, Polk County Health Center received a two-year grant for $49,259. The funds will enable the organization to help local employers create tobacco-free work environments and assist employees who want to stop using tobacco products.

Polk County Health Center’s grant is part of the foundation’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative, a nine-year, $40 million funding effort now in its third year.

The foundation, the largest nongovernmental funder of community health activities in Missouri, was established in 2000. Now in its fourth year of grant-making, it has given more than $195 million.