Congressman Cohen Announces Over $71,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a grant worth $71,052 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. These new funds will be used to bolster the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program at St. Jude. This program helps enable St. Jude to carry out a number of important functions, including providing its resident physicians with graduate medical education, enhancing research capabilities, and continuing to provide excellent care for vulnerable and underserved children across the United States.

“St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is known the world over for its top-flight physicians and staff, as well as for its charitable and benevolent mission,” said Congressman Cohen. “I am pleased to announce that with these new federal funds, St. Jude will continue to advance the knowledge and expertise of its physicians, as well as its ability to make those advancements available to the children who need them most.”

The funds will be distributed through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Division of Grants Management Operations, an office of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CHGME Payment Program provides Federal funds to the nation’s freestanding children's hospitals to help them maintain their graduate medical education programs that train resident physicians. Graduate medical education follows graduation from medical school, and can take between three and seven years to complete depending on the medical, dental or pediatric specialty track chosen. Teaching hospitals that treat adults receive similar funding from Medicare.