The Isthmus Project, which provides a place for UW Health physicians, pharmacists, residents, nurses, staff or others to seek support for their ideas and project that aim to achieve better health outcomes or to solve problems facing UW Health patients, providers and the health system, has received a $75,000 grant from The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the organization announced recently.

According to a release, the grant will help facilitate innovate ideas and solutions directly related to patient and health system challenges and to enable those ideas to advance by providing resources in product development, legal and accounting services.

“This reflects the growing impression that UW Health has a strong desire to seize upon the enormous innovation potential within its own walls, that can be scaled up and shared to improve the health of our patients, the state and beyond,” Isthmus Project Director Thomas “Rock” Mackie said in a statement.

The grant was part of WEDC’s Entrepreneurship Support Program.