Over $4.4 Million Awarded to in Healthcare and Bioscience Based Economic Development Grants
Health Sciences and Services Authority (HSSA) of Spokane awards grants to seven entities improving access to healthcare and ten bioscience entities in winter 2024-2025.
This year, HSSA focused its Access to Care grantmaking on addressing Spokane County’s provider shortage.Nineteen applications were submitted, and the top scorers and award recipients were:
- Asante Health $115,000
- Latinos En Spokane $30,000
- Maddie’s Place $100,000
- Mujeres in Action $60,000
- Partners with Families and Children $130,000
“We are thrilled to support innovative work to create better access to health care in Spokane County. Each of these entities has a unique approach to addressing the ever-present need for quality health care for all of our neighbors.” says HSSA Executive Director Erin Williams Hueter.
HSSA also continues to see many applicants for matching grants for bioscience based economic development. These grant recipients also help address the health of Spokane County residents while innovating care and practice, creating new jobs, and developing partnerships and practices that help catalyze future economic growth in the region. Our most recent grant recipients were:
- Gestalt Diagnostics $250,000
- Impact Laboratories $250,000
- Inherent Biosciences $1,000,000
- Integrated Lipid Biofuels $500,000
- Omniscia Health $230,000
- Phenomix $250,000
- Quadralynx $982,851
- S2 Media $122,700
- WildeCare Education $175,000
- Zepa Medical $150,000
"Entities at various stages were awarded. Phenomix will grow their Spokane operations from one to two or three during their grant award. Inherent Biosciences will move most of their operations and permanently relocate their CEO to Spokane County, WildeCare Education is very early stage and will be doing work to develop their growing venture, and the list goes on. We look forward to following their progress toward making innovations in health and biosciences while growing our regional economy. I hope this encourages similar entities to consider growing in Spokane County." says HSSA Executive Director Erin Williams Hueter.
HSSA closed its final Request for Proposals under the existing scoring criteria on March first and is aligning upcoming funding opportunities with the Strategic Plan adopted in the fall of 2024. Details regarding future funding opportunities should be available later this year.
