Cook Medical will consider requests for charitable donations, educational grants, research projects, or product donations that fit into one of the following classifications:
Cook Medical is interested in the following therapeutic and diagnostic areas:
The industry developed a glossary as the standards for interacting with healthcare professionals became more specific and more established:
A third-party program is a bona fide, independent healthcare-related educational, scientific, business, and/or policymaking conference, meeting, or event put on by a third party other than a company. This term includes programs that are accredited to provide continuing education credits and programs that are not accredited.
A third-party program organizer is an entity that organizes and/or oversees the development of the third-party program, including the selection of presenters, attendees, topics, materials, and methods. A third-party program organizer could include, for example, a healthcare professional society, institution, or association; a medical trust fund, a continuing education provider, or a hospital or other healthcare entity.
Fee-for-service requests are completely different than requests for charitable donations or grants. This type of commercial transaction involves Cook Medical paying fair market value for a service or item(s) it receives in return. These fee-for-service arrangements are outside the scope of the Cook Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board. Please direct inquiries about fee-for-service requests to the Global Cook Events team at Events@CookMedical.com.
Charitable Requests
Educational Grants
Research
Cook Medical is only able to provide product training on Cook Medical products.
Give us as much time as possible to consider your request. We require that completed applications be received 60 days prior to the start date of the event for the review process. The review process cannot begin until the application is signed by the requestor and all required documents are submitted.
Contact your regional grants administrator. Do not contact your Cook Medical sales representative.
Teresa Collins
North and South America (Americas)
Phone: 800.468.1379 ext:102034
E-mail Address: Grants@CookMedical.com »
Jane Li
Asia-Pacific (APAC)
Phone: +61 7 3434 6051
E-mail Address: GrantsAPAC@CookMedical.com »
Julia Steinauer
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Phone: +353 87 737 5595
E-mail Address: GrantsEMEA@CookMedical.com »
No, we cannot provide support for events that have already occurred.
To separate sales from our grant process, all Cook Medical sales representatives and marketing staff are removed from the final decision. The final decision is made by the Cook Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board.
The regional grants administrator will ask the contact person listed on the application for the missing documentation or information. The documentation we require is based on applicable laws, and the application will be closed if the contact person does not respond to our request.
Find the application appropriate for your request. Download the PDF form. Complete all required information and click the “submit” button for your region at the bottom of the form. You may also fax your application and required documents to the regional grants administrator.
If you have questions about the process, contact your regional grants administrator as soon as possible.
The regional Cook Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board (CDGRB) administrator reviews the application for completeness and responds to the requestor. If the application is not complete, it cannot be accepted.
When the application is complete, the administrator enters the request into our donation database, beginning the 60-day review period. Our goal is to have an answer within 60 days of receipt of the complete application to allow the requestor to seek support elsewhere, should that be necessary.
Once the request is logged in for tracking and transparency, the administrator obtains guidance from within the company, as necessary. The application is then sent to the CDGRB, which is composed of non-sales-and-marketing employees to evaluate and make a final decision. The administrator will notify the requestor of the decision.
Industry standards do not allow this.
The controversy is a matter of semantics. When grant requestors use the term “unrestricted,” they typically mean that the industry will not control how grant funds are used. From the industry perspective, any grants awarded must be “restricted” to the use designated by the requestor. In the Cook Medical program, the requestor designates a use and that is the only use that is reviewed and approved for a charitable donation or grant.
Cook is required to review specific requests against industry standards when awarding donations and grants to recipients. The recipients of the donations or grants are then required to use the funds for the purpose that was stated in their application, supported with the documentation they provided that was approved by Cook’s Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board.
Recipients cannot deviate from the purpose of the request. (It is not Cook Medical’s intent to otherwise control the use of the funds.) In other words, there can be no “unrestricted” open funds available for any random use. The Sunshine or “Open Payments” laws make it essential for the industry donor to know specifically how the funds will be used.
For the same reasons we cannot fund unrestricted grants. The request must be for a specific purpose described at the time of application. This information is required for accurate transparency reporting.
The signed letter of agreement MUST be returned to Grants@CookMedical.com or the regional administrator before the start of the event. If this does not occur, the payment or product will not be released and the request will be closed.
Contact your regional grants administrator. Do not contact your Cook Medical sales representative.
Teresa Collins
North and South America (Americas)
Phone: 800.468.1379 ext:102034
E-mail Address: Grants@CookMedical.com »
Jane Li
Asia-Pacific (APAC)
Phone: +61 7 3434 6051
E-mail Address: GrantsAPAC@CookMedical.com »
Julia Steinauer
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Phone: +353 87 737 5595
E-mail Address: GrantsEMEA@CookMedical.com »
For the following reasons:
If an event is cancelled, the grant must be returned. Contact your regional grants administrator for instructions on how to return the grant. If you have money left over and would like to use it for something else, this may be permissible if the money will be used for the same purpose that was indicated on the original request. Contact your regional grants administrator with details about the situation to see if this is an option. This will ensure transparency.