We’re happy to share that six organizations have been selected to receive grant funding from the Copic Medical Foundation. Founded in 1991, the Foundation was established as a nonprofit to advance our mission of improving medicine in the communities we serve. Since then, its reach has grown to a national scope, with more than $14 million awarded to support individuals and organizations working to strengthen patient care and outcomes. Grantmaking remains centered on initiatives that reduce fragmentation across care settings. Because fragmented systems can undermine patient safety, gaps in coordination may contribute to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative tests and procedures, and an overall decline in care quality—often leaving both patients and healthcare professionals dissatisfied.
For 2026, the Foundation has awarded more than $725,000 in grants to the following organizations:
Greater Regional Medical Center (Iowa)
To advance the Mobile Integrated Healthcare model into a fully integrated, post-acute patient-safety program that reduces care fragmentation across settings. This project will expand clinical capacity and standardize in-home risk assessment, closed-loop communication, and hospital-to-home care integration, enabling a reduction in adverse fragmentation events and improved safety and outcomes for patients following discharge.
North Dakota State College of Science Foundation (North Dakota)
The Community Health Worker Certificate Program will build a scalable, community-embedded workforce that reduces the negative health outcomes caused by care fragmentation across North Dakota’s rural and Tribal communities. This program will support curriculum development, clinical site partnerships, outreach to prospective students and healthcare partners, engagement of advisory board members, and comprehensive program evaluation to strengthen care continuity across the region.
City Care (Oklahoma)
Funding will support programming to provide short-term recuperative care for individuals experiencing homelessness who are too ill to recover on the street or in traditional shelter settings. This program will offer daily wellness checks, access to recovery and supportive services, coordinated care across medical and behavioral health providers, and housing navigation to ensure safe transitions into permanent housing options.
MedStar Health Research Institute (Maryland)
Closing the Lung Loop: Preventing Missed Cancers After Incidental Findings—to enhance and evaluate an AI-enabled virtual pulmonary nodule clinic that strengthens follow-up for incidentally detected pulmonary nodules across urban and rural MedStar Health hospitals. By pairing automated detection with nurse navigation and virtual specialty care, this program will work to reduce missed or delayed lung cancer diagnoses driven by fragmented care, with a particular focus on improving outcomes for underserved populations.
Promise Healthcare (Illinois)
The Mothers Matter program will reduce healthcare fragmentation for low-income and uninsured Black and Hispanic perinatal women from pregnancy through 12 months postpartum. Promise Healthcare, an FQHC, will implement cross-sector perinatal care coordination, expand mental health supports, and deliver trauma-informed perinatal training in partnership with the local hospital and public health department. Support for this program will improve birth outcomes and reduce maternal mortality and morbidity by strengthening continuity of care across systems.
Northwest Center (Washington)
Funding will support two communities outside Washington State in reducing care fragmentation during the NICU-to-home transition. Grounded in the evidence-based Hospital-to-Home Care Model, this initiative provides a replicable framework that can be adapted and scaled to meet diverse community needs, addressing the persistent “service cliff” families face after NICU discharge and strengthening continuity of care for fragile infants and their caregivers.
We are privileged to collaborate with these organizations, each leading the way in pioneering concepts aimed at advancing healthcare and boosting patient safety. Their work aligns closely with our objectives and Copic’s commitment to improving healthcare outcomes.
