College Kudos: Grant Award, Citizen Achievement, Publication, and Presentations

The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation awarded a $250,000 Hillman Innovations Dissemination (HID) grant to Rural Huntsman at Home. Principal Investigator Dr. Kathi Mooney and Co-Investigator Dr. Elizabeth Sloss will improve access to care for rural communities that have been historically marginalized by expanding nurse-led specialty cancer care, which has been effective in rural Utah counties, to persons with cancer who live in Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. A part of Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Huntsman at Home service, Rural Huntsman at Home provides specialty cancer care to patients in their home. In a press release, The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation stated that “Rural Huntsman at Home improves quality of life for patients and families, shortens patients’ hospital stays after treatment, reduces emergency room visits, and lowers health care costs.” As principal investigator of the project, Dr. Kathi Mooney stated, “We are deeply grateful for our continued partnership with The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation. Their support will be instrumental in helping to disseminate Rural Huntsman at Home. The Huntsman Cancer Institute, where our program was developed, is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in this five-state region, and we believe strongly that this high-quality care should be equally available to our neighbors in frontier and rural communities.”