8/21/2024

IRONWOOD - The Superior Health Foundation Board of Directors approved 13 new grants totaling $271,549 aimed at improving health across the Upper Peninsula. Gogebic Community College received a grant to enhance EMS offerings in its service area, which includes Ontonagon County. The grant will reduce EMS student travel cost barriers by providing local training lab opportunities, which are currently only offered in Ironwood. This project aims to reduce the cost of EMS education while helping place more EMS providers in high-need regions in the Western U.P. A grant to the City of Marquette will train more instructors in the Asahi Nordic’s Fall Prevention Program in Marquette, Baraga, and Houghton Counties, increasing the number of older adults with access to the program. For more information, go to shf@superiorhealthfoundation.org.