Grant awarded for telehealth at 3 free clinics

The VNA Foundation awarded a $60,000 grant to The MAVEN Project to pilot its suite of telehealth services with three free clinics in McHenry County, Bolingbrook and Chicago.

The MAVEN Project is a nonprofit that uses skilled volunteer specialist physicians to provide virtual consults, education and mentoring to community-based providers.

The three Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics member clinics invited to participate in the pilot program with MAVEN: Family Health Partnership Clinic in McHenry County, Bolingbrook Christian Health Center serving DuPage and Will Counties, and the Chicago Women's Health Center.

We cannot think of a better time than now, in the midst of this serious health crisis impacting all of us, to help bring telehealth technology to our area's free and charitable clinics," said VNA Foundation Executive Director Rob DiLeonardi. "And by partnering with The MAVEN Project, we can use that technology to bring to clinic doctors and nurses the kind of input from expert specialists that they frequently request-and just when they need it most."