Piper Trust $10M grant fuels new partnership with Creighton, St. Vincent de Paul to improve health care for Maricopa County’s most needy
Reducing the number of uninsured patients who rely on hospital emergency rooms is at the heart of a new partnership between three Catholic-based entities, a collaboration whose leaders say will improve care for underserved populations by transforming the system that directs those patients to more appropriate services.
Officials of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix and Creighton University announced the collaboration during a virtual joint news conference Thursday, March 4.
Fueled by a $10 million gift from the Piper Trust, the partnership will more deeply integrate St. Vincent de Paul’s Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic into the Creighton Health Sciences Phoenix Campus curriculum.
