EMHS, Bates receive $1.5 million
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded grant funding totaling more than $1.5 million to Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Brewer and Bates College in Lewiston, according to a statement released Monday by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King.
The funds were respectively awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Aging, both DHHS agencies.
A grant of $1.35 million to Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems is aimed at improving community health options in rural Maine.
According to its website, EMHS in mid-2014 completed a Community Health Needs Assessment in Maine’s northern seven counties of Maine, with the goal of building work plans with partners to address findings.
Nearly $300,000 was awarded to Dr. Nancy Koven of Bates College, who is researching the effects of endogenous oxytocin in adult psychosocial adjustment. Koven is a psychologist and neuroscientist whose research focus is the structure and function of areas of the brain involved in various cognitive and affective processes, specifically in individuals with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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