Ignacio Valdes Implementation Log/Episode6

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Updated 9/13/2011: I read this across 3 years of time and I simply laugh at how naive I was about funding and how correct my 2-3 year prediction was.

7/23/08 So I sent a modest funding request up the chain of command. The hospital is a reasonably well managed not for profit that is recovering from a bad stretch income wise in the Spring of 2007. Answer came back that there isn't money to do this implementation right now except on a voluntary basis. The problem is that I think that between myself, local community resources and this community that I could stand it up but we are talking about 2-3 years versus 6 months to a year with discretionary funds. The possibility of implementation grants has come up. Does anyone know of agencies that do grants for implementations or any other way of funding this?

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