{"id":4994,"date":"2019-02-26T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:57:33","slug":"ihqi-improvement-scholars-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/2019\/02\/ihqi-improvement-scholars-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IHQI is\u00a0pleased to announce that six projects will be supported through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/improvement-scholars\/\">IHQI&#8217;s Improvement Scholars Program <\/a>for the period Sept. 1, 2019 \u2013 Aug. 31, 2020. 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