The Women's Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital is pleased to announce that it has allocated $601,070 in grants for FY 2010. The funding will support a wide range of projects and programs at Hopkins. The grants will help to:

• Support one academic scholarship each for the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing
• Purchase new equipment to advance the use of cutting edge technology in medicine
• Replace equipment that supports quality patient care
• Continue a program for which funding is no longer available and expand a program that has been very successful and important to the Baltimore community
• Provide seed money to begin new projects at Hopkins

Grants for funding will be allocated to the following Functional Units:

• Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine – purchase of a Metabolic Cart
• Dermatology – purchase of Ultraviolet A1 (UVA1) therapy equipment
• Cardiology – support to create a website for the Johns Hopkins Women's Cardiovascular Health Center
• School of Medicine – creation of a Women's Board Fellowship in Patient Safety
• Neurology – purchase of an ultrasound machine and chairs for the Lumbar Puncture Clinic
• Neurosurgery - purchase of chairs for visitor seating in patient rooms
• School of Nursing – expansion of the Birth Companions Program, providing doula support for Baltimore area mothers and infants.
• Ophthalmology – purchase of an Orbscan for use at the Wilmer Clinic at Green Spring Station
• Otolaryngology – support for the creation of a Smoking Cessation Program
• Outpatient Clinic – creation of a Warfarin Patient Education Video
• Pathology - purchase of an instrument for pre-surgical screening for Staphylococcus Aureus (including MRSA) among high risk adult and pediatric patients
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – purchase of an Armeo to help patients regain functional use of the upper extremities
• Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences – purchase of a patient lift