Deadline: 21-Aug-23
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Service Area Competition (SAC) under the Health Center Program to improve the health of the Nation’s underserved communities and populations by assuring continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services.
The Health Center Program supports domestic public or private, nonprofit community-based and patient-directed organizations that provide primary health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved populations.
Specific requirements for funding under each population type are outlined below.
- Community Health Center (CHC) Applicants:
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(e) and program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to underserved populations in the service area.
- Migrant Health Center (MHC) Applicants:
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(g); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and their families in the service area, which includes:
- Migratory agricultural workers who are individuals whose principal employment is in agriculture, who have been so employed within the last 24 months, and who establish for the purposes of such employment a temporary abode;
- Seasonal agricultural workers who are individuals whose principal employment is in agriculture on a seasonal basis and who do not meet the definition of a migratory agricultural worker;
- Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Applicants:
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(h); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to individuals:
- Who lack housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family);
- Whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations;
- Who reside in transitional housing;
- Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Applicants:
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(i); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to residents of public housing and individuals living in areas immediately accessible to public housing.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $261,641,270 to be available annually to fund 81 recipients.
- The period of performance is March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2027 (up to 3 years).
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Additional Information on Eligibility:
- You must be a domestic public or private, nonprofit entity, as demonstrated through the submission of the Evidence of Non-profit/Public Center Status. Faith-based and community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.