The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment is now accepting applications for its Prescription Accessibility Grant Program.
Donor Name: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Pharmacies must, upon request, provide patients (or their caretakers), with one of the following at no cost:
- An electronic label affixed to the prescription drug container that transmits prescription drug label information, directions, and written instructions to a patient’s external accessible device, including a patient’s compatible prescription drug reader.
- A prescription drug label in braille or large print.
- A prescription drug reader.
- Any other method included in the best practices for access to prescription drug labeling information by the United States Access Board, or its successor organization.
Goals and Outcomes
This grant program aims to facilitate prescription accessibility to the visually impaired by awarding hardship grants to pharmacies for purchasing equipment to create accessible prescription labels.
The anticipated outcomes of the grant program are:
- Improved access to prescription drug information for patients with difficulty seeing or reading standard printed labels.
- Reduced financial burden on pharmacies to meet accessibility requirements.
Funding Information
- The Prescription Accessibility Grant Program will distribute approximately $65,000 to grant recipients on a first-come, first-served basis. The maximum grant award is $1,500 per grant recipient.
- Grant funds must be used to purchase equipment used to create accessible prescription labels.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility for this funding is as follows:
- Pharmacies registered and based in Colorado.
- Independent pharmacies
- An ‘independent pharmacy’ is defined as a prescription drug outlet privately owned by at least one licensed pharmacist with no ownership interest by or affiliation with a chain or publicly owned pharmacy.
- Ineligible entities
- Publicly traded pharmacies (Walgreens, CVS, etc) are not eligible for this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit DPHE.
