Deadline: 20-Feb-24
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Service Area Competition-Additional Area (SAC-AA) under the Health Center Program.
The purpose of this program is 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. The purpose of the SAC-AA notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services for communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
In addition to the general Health Center Program requirements discussed above, 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.
- 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. Public housing includes public housing agency-developed, owned, or assisted low-income housing, including mixed finance projects, but excludes housing units with no public housing agency support other than Section 8 housing vouchers.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $5,370,500 to be available annually to fund 2 recipients.
- The period of performance is August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027 (up to 3 years).
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- You must propose in the Response section of the Project Narrative to operate a health center that makes all required primary health care services available and accessible in the service area, either directly or through established arrangements, without regard for ability to pay. You may not propose to provide only a single service or any subset of the required primary health care services.
- You must propose on Form 5A: Services Provided to make General Primary Medical Care available directly (Column I) and/or through formal written contractual agreements in which the health center pays for the service (Column II).
- If you are a new or competing supplement applicant, you must propose at least one new full-time (operational 40 hours or more per week) permanent, fixed building service site on Form 5B: Service Sites. You must provide a verifiable street address for each proposed site on Form 5B: Service Sites.
- You must propose to provide access to services for all individuals in the service area and target population, as described in the Response section of the Project Narrative. In instances where one or more services will be provided at a location that targets a sub-population (e.g., a school-based site that targets school-aged children), you must ensure that all health center services will be made available and accessible to others who seek services at the proposed site(s). You may not propose to serve only a single sub-population.
- Public Housing Primary Care Applicants: If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for 330(i) funding, you must demonstrate that you have consulted with residents of public housing in the preparation of the SAC-AA application. You must also ensure ongoing consultation with the residents regarding the planning and administration of the health center, as documented in the Collaboration section of the Project Narrative.
- Health Care for the Homeless and Public Housing Primary Care Applicants: If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for 330(h) or 330(i) funding for the first time, you must attest on the Summary Page that you will use this funding to supplement, and not supplant, the expenditures of the health center and the value of in-kind contributions for the delivery of services to these populations.
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