Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
INNOVATIONS IN PATIENT CARE GRANT PROGRAM
Seeking New Ways to Enhance Patient Care from All Clinicians and Caregivers
DEADLINE: MARCH 30TH, 2009 - NOON

Cycle	Applications	Funded	% Funded	Total $ funded
March 2009	34	10	29%	$176K

March 30, 2009:  Proposals due at Noon
February 4, 2009:  Grant Writing Workshop 9am-3pm, Clark Center Auditorium
June 1, 2009:  Awards announced

Download 2009 IPC Brochure (Word)
Download 2009 IPC Application Instructions (Word)
Download 2009 IPC Grant Application Form (Word)
Download No-Cost Extention Request Instructions (Word)

About IPC
Have you  ever had an idea to enhance patient care or patients’ experiences at LPCH, or thought of a better way to get something done . . . , only to realize you don’t have the resources to study and implement the changes?

Since 1997, the Innovations in Patient Care (IPC) Grant Program has provided funding for the testing of such creative ideas at LPCH.  The IPC Committee welcomes the submission of basic science, clinical, or systems ideas that represent departures from conventional thinking.

Program Goals
The Innovations in Patient Care (IPC) Grant Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is designed to solicit and fund original, well-developed, cutting-edge proposals which strive to:
   *Improve the quality of patient care at LPCH through innovative interventions.
   *Promote efficient/ appropriate use of resources and diagnostic/ therapeutic services at LPCH.
   *Address issues of uncertainty or variations in patient care.
   *Control and/or reduce the cost of patient care while maintaining or improving quality.
Your proposal may target areas such as clinical care methods, patient education, error prevention, access to care, customer service, cost reduction, documentation and more.

Amount of funding: up to $25,000
The Innovations in Patient Care grant is not time-specific, i.e. the budget that you request should  consider all expenses that you expect to incur for the duration of your project, regardless of whether you expect to complete it in six or twelve months.

Eligibility
All LPCH employees and medical staff from all disciplines of patient care are invited to submit applications.  First-time and new researchers are especially encouraged to apply.  If you have previously submitted to Innovations in Patient Care, but did not receive an award, you are also invited to resubmit your proposal. Applications are not eligible if the project has received total or partial funding from another source.

How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted using the Innovations in Patient Care application form. The 2009 IPC application form is available on the following websites:

• https://intranet.lpch.org/educationTraining/ ipc/index.html [coming soon]

• http://spectrumchildhealth.stanford.edu/AwardsandGrants.html [coming soon]

Proposal deadline is Monday, March 30, 2009 at Noon.   
Please email one single (1) PDF of entire application to giselah@stanford.edu.

Sponsored by
Innovations in Patient Care Committee
Co-Chair:  Anne Dubin, MD
Co-Chair:  Annette Nasr, RN, PhD
Made possible by a grant from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Questions? Contact
Gisela Hoelzl
IPC Coordinator
giselaH@stanford.edu
650-736-0068