Wright Rural Health Initiative receives additional funding

Wright State University’s plan to improve rural health care through the Wright Rural Health Initiative (WRHI) recently was boosted by grants and donations totaling $700,000.

Wright State received a $400,000 gift from the Mercer Health Care Foundation Fund under the umbrella of the Mercer County Civic Foundation for the Wright State University-Lake Campus medical program, and a $300,000 grant to WHRI from HealthPath Foundation of Ohio, a Cincinnati organization dedicated to improving Ohioans’ access to health care.

The initiative was created in 2014 to improve rural health care access by