Essentia Health
Duluth, MN · Health system
NIH Funding · FY2026
NIH funds Essentia Health's hospitals as separate organizations. These figures add up the FY2026 NIH awards of its member organizations.
#67 of 83 health systems by FY2026 NIH funding. All health systems
Member hospitals
1 of Essentia Health's members have FY2026 NIH awards, shown with the ScienceDex institution that holds them.
| Member hospital | NIH organization | Funding | Grants | PIs | All-institution rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentia Institute of Rural HealthResearch institute | Essentia Institute of Rural Health | $1.2M | 1 | 1 | #995of 2,521 |
18 other member hospitals have no FY2026 NIH awards
Bridges Medical Center, Deer River Healthcare Center Inc., Essentia Health Ada, Essentia Health Deer River, Essentia Health Graceville, Essentia Health Moose Lake, Essentia Health Virginia, First Care Medical Services, Graceville Health Center, Innovis Health, Northern Pines Medical Center, Pine Medical Center, Smdc Medical Center, St Mary's Hospital Superior, St. Joseph's Medical Center, St. Mary's Health, St. Mary's Medical Center and St. Mary's Regional Health Center.
- Members: AHRQ, Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023 (data year 2023, retrieved September 27, 2026), which lists 18 hospitals in this system; research institutes and system organizations were added from their own websites. Hospital names are AHRQ's, which AHRQ sometimes shortens. NIH organizations were matched to AHRQ hospitals by name, city and state, and every inexact match was checked by hand. Rank is each organization's place among 2,521 institutions in the FY2026 all-institution ranking. How health systems are counted
Departments by funding
No FY2026 award at these members has a department.
- Department figures follow the department-ranking rules: awards with an NIH or assigned department, not R&D contracts. They cover $0 of the $1,156,602 total; awards without a department count only in the total.
- NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each one counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations. When no affiliation names a department, the department comes from the award's topic. Cancer centers, research institutes and other organizations that are not typed as hospitals have no department. How departments are assigned
Top funded principal investigators
Highest-funded PIs across Essentia Health's members in FY2026, by the full amounts of the awards that list them.