USF Health gets 5.6 mill donation

[tampabull]

A $5.6 million gift from the Patterson Foundation to USF Health will launch a partnership designed to help people with chronic illness.

The gift will be used to start Bringing Science Home, a model program that will develop new ways of learning and caring to help people approach their lives optimistically, a release said.

The project will start by focusing on diabetes, and then expand to other chronic illnesses, such as asthma and arthritis, the release said.

Nicole Johnson will be executive director of Bringing Science Home. Johnson, who is Miss America 1999, has been working as a director with the USF Health Diabetes Education Center. She has Type 1 diabetes and has become a national advocate for people with diabetes.

The Patterson Foundation, based in Sarasota, was interested in partnering with USF in part because a Patterson family member had diabetes before his death, the release said.

But the effort expanded into Bringing Science Home because the project embodies so many of the foundation’s values, said Debra Jacobs, president and chief executive of the foundation, in the release.

Bringing Science Home will serve as a pilot for a larger project for USF, which wants to find a hospital partner to help create a Center for Lifespan Disease, the release said.

USF Health in Tampa includes the University of South Florida’s colleges of medicine, nursing and public health; the schools of biomedical sciences as well as physical therapy and rehabilitation sciences; and the USF Physicians Group.

Read more: Patterson Foundation awards USF Health $5.6 million - Tampa Bay Business Journal

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Well it's not the new pharmacy program, but it is still a nice chunk of change for USF Health program.

[Paisa el Toro]

Gotta keep those duckets rolling to our alma mater.

[Skingraft]

Lots of love for USF in Birmingham-UK...its a small world

[DELdaBull]

Sweet!