The Family of Patricia (Dalton) Jones (Mercy College ’56) established an endowed scholarship at Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan. The Patricia J. Jones Nursing Scholarship is a University of Detroit Mercy expendable scholarship that provides annual scholarship support for upper level UDM students seeking a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.  The scholarship award may be used for room and board, tuition, registration fees, lab fees (if applicable) and books.  The 2012-2013 scholarship is valued at $1,400.

Jaclyn Truscott was the first nursing student to be awarded the Martina Kuechle Nursing Scholarship.  The scholarship fund is named in memory of the former student advisor, one of the most caring and beloved individuals to have ever worked in the College of Health Professions.

Ford Community Corps Partnership awarded grants to two CHP faculty members to implement service-learning projects with their students, including the grant on Increasing Health Insurance Benefits Awareness Among Medicare Patients. Eight CHP faculty members were awarded Mission Micro Grant awards.

The MSON was awarded $100,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for scholarship support for nursing students in the Second Degree Program.

During 2011, the MSON secured funding to support students through HRSA-funded training grants: Nurse Anesthetist Training ($27,483); and Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment ($237,240). HRSA also funded the McAuley Health Center for the second year ($232,560) of a three-year award.

Metro Health Foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to McAuley Health Center to support necessary equipment for conducting a pediatrics asthma screening program for children accessing the Center’s services on the City’s east side.

MSON received grant funding totaling $53,723 from the National Collegiate of Inventors & Innovators Association (NCIIA). The grant proposal was submitted by Professor for Nursing Molly McClelland to support UDM’s joint engineering-nursing program that supports veterans by creating helpful devices that improve their everyday function.  The program includes small teams of engineering and nursing students who work on projects in partnership with Michigan Rehabilitation Services, John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center and other contacts.

In August, MHSA graduate student Simran K. Gill received the Albert W. Dent scholarship from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Gill is a second year graduate student and one of only six students nationally to be recognized with this honor. The $5,000 scholarship is offered to provide financial aid to minority students in healthcare management graduate programs to help offset tuition costs, student loans and expenses.