Institute for Health Innovation News

2024

• CPE awards over $500K for healthcare summer bridge programs, CPE
  
• NKU gets $2.4M from NIH to boost human services paraprofessionals, Lane Report
  
• NKU program empowers students to take leadership in addressing challenges [VIDEO], Soapbox Cincinnati
  
• Girl Scouts become ‘Doctors for a Day’ at healthcare event
  
• NKU, Girl Scouts partner for event aimed at tackling health care worker shortage
• Kentucky backs away from ibogaine research to treat opioid addiction\
  
• On Valentine's Day we catch up with Rico Grant, owner of event hub LoVe on Fourth
• NKU working to increase addiction recovery resources, awareness in rural communities
• Startup accelerator SoCap readies to showcase eighth cohort
• Institute for Health Innovation hosts Camp Norse
• Director of the Institute for Health Innovation, Valerie Hardcastle, featured in a discussion about Kentucky backing away from ibogaine research to treat opioid addiction
• Institute for Health Innovation Featured in a Video for the American Public Health Association

2023

• OneNKY Center in Covington breaks ground
  
• Courier podcast: Inside Cincinnati's Black creative renaissance with Rico Grant
  
• NKU, St. Elizabeth partner to expand health care access for rural Kentuckians
  
• Covington Life Sciences Partners announces new research and development lab at OneNKY Center
  
• NKU launches mental health program for students dealing with post pandemic distress
  
• Ohio Governor Mike DeWine plans to make a push to combat overdoses by putting Narcan cabinets in public colleges and universities around the state 
• Four Northern Kentucky businesses receive funding from $248,800 in grants from Main Street Ventures
• Safewave Technology prepares to launch first product, founder eyes $1 billion exit
• Four Northern Kentucky businesses receive funding from $248,800 in grants from Main Street Ventures

2022

• Re-Assist among 40 global startups tapped for newest MIT 'Solver' class
  Biz Journal/Sep, 2022
• NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation receives grant to support new community health worker program
  Northern Kentucky Tribune/Oct, 2022
• NKU awarded grant to launch Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative
  Northern Kentucky Tribune/Jul, 2022
• Brighton Center’s Opportunity House ready for 16 young adults to move in
  Northern Kentucky Tribune/Jul, 2022

• NKU’s Institute of Health Innovation names winners of Idea Challenge: Growing the Healthcare Workforce
  Northern Kentucky Tribune/May, 2022
• How NKU tackles substance use disorders in rural Northern Kentucky
  The Northerner/April, 2022
• Beshear, 4 local firms launch effort to bring $10M lab to NKY
  Cincinnati Business Courier/January, 2022
• No longer ‘impossible': Cincinnati entrepreneur launching new fund for Black small business owners
  CincyInno/March, 2022
• Square1’s NEXT High School Pitch event selects three top teams who win TMU scholarships
  Northern Kentucky Tribune/May, 2022
• NKU’s Institute of Health Innovation names winners of Idea Challenge: Growing the Healthcare Workforce

2021

• SOCAP Accelerator program and how budding entrepreneurs can benefit
  
• Traveling Home During the Pandemic
• NKU receives grant, expands telehealth medicine in rural communities
  
• COPE receives more funding, expands programs, The News Democrat
  
• NKU gets two grants to help develop NKY’s economic region, assist with health, livelihood of its residents, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• NKU receives $1 million federal grant, part of Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• NKU Awarded $1 Million Federal Grant to Combat Opioid Epidemic, Fort Thomas Matters
  
• Tell Us: How Do You Feel At This Point In The Pandemic?, WVXU
  
• Local accelerator launches search for third class of startups, CincyInno
  
• $1M grant will help NKU fight opioid crisis in rural counties, Spectrum News1
  
• Sen. McConnell announces $6m to help combat opioid epidemic; NKU receives $1m, (Northern Kentucky Tribune)
  
• Rico Grant Receives Reds Community Award
  
• Entrepreneur Rico Grant to receive Reds Community Advocate Award, MLB.com
  
• Reds return to GABP for African American Community Night, Local 12 News
• NKU receives Sprint Challenge grant, Grant County News
• Grant approved for facility that aims to help young adults, AP News
  
• Gov. Beshear announces $1M investment to help open Opportunity House in Highland Heights, Fox19
  
• Gov. Beshear announces $1million award for Opportunity House in Highland Heights, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• Beshear: $1M grant to help build Opportunity House for low-income college students, Spectrum News 1
  
• An Educated Choice for Care, NKU Magazine
• 'This will save lives': Mom, son team up to launch new health care app, CincyInno
  
• NKU ends mask mandate for fully vaccinated students, staff, WCPO
  
• NKU awarded federal funds to accelerate economy, The Lane Report
  
• NKU receives federal grant to accelerate economic growth and create jobs, WLWT
  
• Northern Kentucky Young Professionals announce finalists for 2021 Next Generation Leader Award, The Lane Report
  
• NKY Next Generation Leader Award Finalists Announced, River City News
  
• ‘Science is not political’: Faculty discuss COVID-19 cases and vaccines, The Northerner
  
• New Ideas to Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy, WLWT
• NKU students working to bring COVID-19 vaccine to underserved communities, WCPO
• Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy, WLEX18
• 'Next generation of thinkers' called on to address vaccine hesitancy issues, WLWT
• Healthcare officials turn to NKU vaccine idea challenge, Fox19‘
• We need fresh perspective’: Healthcare officials turn to NKU vaccine idea challenge, Fox19
  
• NKU Launches Pitch Challenge to Distribute Vaccine Info to Underserved Communities, River City News
  
• Have an idea on how to spread the word about COVID-19 vaccines? NKU wants to hear it, Spectrum News 1
  
• NKU SoCap selects 2021 Spring Cohort, The Lane Report
  
• U.S. Department of Commerce Awards $29 Million in Sprint Challenge Grants to Respond to Coronavirus Pandemic Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  
• As guards drop amid vaccinations, is a fourth wave of COVID-19 still possible? WCPO
  
• Health care innovation accelerator looks for next class, CincyInno

2020

• NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation aims to make region healthier through embracing collaboration, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• A Healthy Start(up), Realm
• SoCap Announces Inaugural Health Innovations Cohort
• COVID-19: Universities take dramatically different approaches to try to stop the spread, WCPO
• Was it safe to return to campus? Faculty and health experts weigh in, The Northerner
  
• Helping Families Recover From Opioid Addiction, Spectrum News 1
• NKU awarded $2M grant to support children impacted by the opioid epidemic, The Lane Report
• Institute for Health Innovation Leads Effort to Support Children Impacted by the Opioid Epidemic
• NKU Announces the Nation’s First Health Care Commercialization Program, River City News
  
• NKU Announces the Nation's First Health Care Commercialization Program
  
• Northern Kentucky University, city of Covington launch Collaborative for Economic Engagement, Cincinnati Business Courier
  
• NKU, Covington unveil new Collaborative for Economic Engagement hub in Innovation Alley, NKY Tribune
  
• NKU Creates the Collaborative for Economic Engagement
  
• With opioid overdoses rising again, a new plan emerges to improve access to treatment in rural areas, Soapbox Cincinnati
  
• St. Elizabeth and NKU start SoCap health care startup accelerator with some big names in business and innovation, TechOhio
  
• NKU launches a new COVID-19 dashboard to keep the community informed of the region’s statistics, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• St. Elizabeth and NKU start SoCap health care startup accelerator with some big names in business and innovation, Cincinnati Business Courier
  
• NKU, counties launch program as overdose rates double, WTVQ
• NKU Expands Opioid Recovery Program in Rural Counties, River City News
• NKU Expands Opioid Recovery Programs
  
• NKU health innovation accelerator joins four partners to enhance, support region’s healthcare, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• Health Accelerator Announces Partnerships
• NKU Partners with Children's Hospital on Heart Disease Research, River City News
  
• NKU partners with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to develop tech for treating patients with rheumatic heart disease, The Lane Report
  
• Aspiring Jedis train in the Health Innovation Center, The Northerner
  
• NKU launches Health Innovation Accelerator; goal is to meet needs, make Commonwealth healthier, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• NKU launches Health Innovation Accelerator, The Lane Report
  
• Institute for Health Innovation Launches Health Innovation Accelerator
• Federal grant creates Northern Kentucky University’s Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic Program, NKY Tribune
• NKU Battling Opioids, Fox19
• Federal Grant Creates NKU's Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic Program
• Partnerships help St. Elizabeth Healthcare expand footprint in NKY, The Lane Report
  
• NKU Joins Fight Against Opioid Epidemic In Owen County, Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU)

2019

• NKU's Thanksgiving Dinner for Students, WLWT
  
• NKU announces Health Pitch Competition winners; high school students take top prize with mobile app, Northern Kentucky Tribune
  
• IHI Health Pitch Competition Winners Announced
  
• Tackling The Opioid Crisis With A Million-Dollar Grant, WVXU
  
• NKU helps fight opioid addiction in Owen County, The Northerner
  
• NKU's Institute for Health Innovation reaches out to rural communities to battle an epidemic, NKY Thrives
  
• Addiction + Broken Brains, Here We Are
  
• NKU awarded nearly $2M to combat opioid crisis in rural Kentucky, WCPO
  
• Number of U.S. overdose deaths appears to be falling, PBS NewsHour
  
• NKU’s IHI launches health pitch competition, The Lane Report
  
• When Should Young People Be Charged As Adults?, 91.7 WVXU
  
• NKU Serves as Platinum Sponsor of the 2019 National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit 
  
• St. Elizabeth, a nationally praised health provider, The Lane Report
  
• New grant promises healthier future for innovations, NKY Thrives

2018

• Federal Funds to Boost Health Entrepreneurship in Northern Kentucky, The River City News
• Federal Grant Allows Northern Kentucky Partners to Build Health Innovation Initiative
• NKY Health Innovation Initiative gets $731k i6 Challenge grant from U.S. Department of Commerce, Northern Kentucky Tribune
• Federal grant allows Northern Kentucky partners to build health innovation initiative, The Lane Report
• NKU Foundation to lead Northern Kentucky innovation efforts, Cincinnati Enquirer
• Tri-ED’s NKY Entrepreneurship Council gets KY Innovation RISE grant for $750k for innovation cluster, Northern Kentucky Tribune
• U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $21 Million to Accelerate Entrepreneurship Across the Nation, U.S. EDA
• NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation gets $200k grant to expand opioid interventions in Owen County, Northern Kentucky Tribune
• Opioids: Health Innovation receives $200K to fight epidemic, The Northerner
• Three Kentucky Organizations Awarded Opioid Response Program Grants, The Bridge
• NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation receives grant to fight opioid epidemic, The Lane Report
• 3 Ways NKU's Innovation Institute is Impacting Healthcare, HealthLeaders Media
• Institute for Health Innovation Receives Grant to Fight Opioid Epidemic
• Rep. Wuchner leads full day of events focused on health care issues facing NKY communities, Northern Kentucky Tribune
• NKU to unveil $105M Health Innovation Center, The Lane Report
• Kentucky governor to attend unveiling of NKU Health Innovation Center, Cincinnati Enquirer
• Bevin to Visit Newport, Attend Dedication of New NKU Building, The River City News
• Northern Kentucky University dedicates newest building, Health Innovations Center; first since 2011, Northern Kentucky Tribune
• A new focus on health sciences makes NKU a premiere destination for future medical professionals, WCPO
• FIRST LOOK: $105M Health Innovation Center opens, Cincinnati Business Courier
• St. Elizabeth partners with NKU to hire health innovation chief, Cincinnati Business Courier
• Education, care go hand-in-hand for Health Innovation director, The Northerner
• NKU looks to educate next generation of professionals to handle opioid crisis, WCPO

2017

• St. E, UK to open regional medical school at NKU, Cincinnati Enquirer