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Applications for Bailey Fund Scholarships Now Being Accepted

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MIDLAND, Mich. – Applications to the Bernard F. and Melissa Anne Bailey Family Fund Health Care Scholarship program at MidMichigan Health will be available beginning December 1, 2020 for the 2021-2022 school year. Students may access the application online at www.midmichigan.org/bailey. Applications and support documentation will only be accepted electronically. The deadline for the 2021-2022 school year is Monday, March 1, 2021.  

The fund, initiated through a $3.3 million bequest left by Bernard Bailey to MidMichigan, was established to further the goals of students pursuing clinical health care careers from an accredited college or university. Under the stewardship of the MidMichigan Health Foundation, scholarships are awarded to students in health care fields on the basis of merit and established criteria as determined by an overseer committee. Interested applicants must be a resident or have immediate family living in any of the following mid-Michigan counties: Alcona, Alpena, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, Montcalm, Ogemaw, Presque Isle, Roscommon and Saginaw.

More than $207,000 was awarded to 160 students pursuing health care careers for the 2020-2021 school year. More than $2 million in total has been granted by the Bailey Family Fund to assist area students since it began offering health care scholarships in 2005.

Those interested in more information may contact Ashley Raetz-Myers at (989) 839-3638 or ashley.raetz-myers@midmichigan.org. Those interested in additional scholarship opportunities may visit www.midmichigan.org/scholarships.

 MidMichigan Health, a non-profit health system headquartered in Midland, Michigan, is a leader in providing award-winning, high-quality care to the 23-county region it serves. With Medical Centers in Alpena, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot, Midland, Mt. Pleasant and West Branch, MidMichigan Health provides a full continuum of care across a wide array of settings, including urgent care centers, home health, virtual care, as well as medical offices in more than 30 specialties and subspecialties including cardiology, hematology/oncology, orthopedics, vascular surgery, family medicine and more. MidMichigan Health demonstrates its commitment to the future of medicine by partnering with leading institutions to offer medical education programs that train medical students, physicians, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, nursing students and other clinical experts for our region. Its more than 8,800 employees, volunteers and health care providers work together to create healthy communities through solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the 938,000 residents in the health system’s service area. In fiscal year 2020, MidMichigan Health provided more than $91 million in community benefits, as well as supported its patients and families with new equipment, services and programs with funds raised by the MidMichigan Health Foundation.

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