The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that a series of grants were awarded on Monday under its state-mandated Community Health Initiative.

A total of just over $1 million will be handed out in eight separate grants for an array of work in community public health ranging from substance abuse recovery to chronic disease management. Required by the state Department of Public Health as part of the hospital’s recently completed $50 million new building campaign, the public grant money was originally pegged at some $2 million but has since been whittled down by the hospital which directed a sizeable chunk of the funding to meet its own needs, including the recruitment of primary care physicians and the addition of a new MRI facility.

The grants are the result of an extensive review by a five-member committee; they include so-called mini grants of $5,000 apiece and also priority grants of considerably larger amounts to be paid out over the next five years. The list of recipients follows.

Mini grants went to the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Daybreak Program’s health and wellness initiative, the Let’s Move Martha’s Vineyard Coalition which aims to promote healthy lifestyles, Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard for its children’s bereavement program, and Vineyard Village at Home to expand its transportation program for senior health care needs.

Priority grants went to the Vineyard Nursing Association, the Island Health Clinic and Vineyard Health Care Access to address chronic disease management for Type II diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic pulmonary disease; to the six Island boards of health to study and promote prevention of tick-borne illnesses through public education; to Martha’s Vineyard Community Services for its New Paths Recovery program, a day treatment center for recovering addicts; and to the Island councils on aging for a broad range of work with the Island elderly. The priority grants total $51,670 a year for five years.