Deadline: 19-Feb-25
The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities.
Purpose
- The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities. Specifically, the program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy for linking rural health care network participants together to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.
- The program helps network participants work together on three legislative aims:
- Achieve efficiencies.
- Expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services and associated health outcomes.
- Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole.
- The intent is that rural health networks will do the following:
- Expand access to care.
- Increase the use of health information technology.
- Explore alternative health care delivery models.
- Continue to achieve quality health care across the continuum of care.
Goals
- The goal of this program is to support the planning and development of integrated health care networks that:
- Facilitate collaboration among health care networks to achieve efficiencies and improve access to quality health care services and outcomes in rural areas.
- Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole by fostering partnerships among diverse health care entities.
- Enhance local capacity to improve rural community health interventions and coordinate care effectively.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding in FY 2025: $3,500,000 Expected
- Funding range per award: Up to $100,000.
- They plan to fund awards in one 12-month budget period for a total one-year period of performance from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
Who can apply?
- You can apply if you are a domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entity.
- Types of eligible organizations
- Public institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status
- For-profit organizations, including small businesses
- State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and the freely associated states
- Independent school districts
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- Community health centers
- Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)
- Hospitals
- Rural Emergency Hospitals
- Native American tribal governments
- Native American tribal organizations
For more information, visit Grants.gov.