Deadline: 12-Oct-21
The Rural Development (RD) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently inviting applications for the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program to help broaden access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural healthcare services, and food assistance through food banks and food distribution facilities.
The Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program provides immediate relief to address economic conditions arising from the COVID-19 emergency. It also provides funding to advance ideas and solutions to solve regional rural health care problems to support the long-term sustainability of rural health care.
Type of Grants
This program offers two tracks of funding:
- Recovery Grants: provide immediate relief to address the economic conditions arising from the COVID-19 emergency. Grant funds must be used in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and to support immediate health care needs, to help prepare for a future pandemic event, or to increase access to quality health care services and improve community health outcomes.
- Impact Grants: advance ideas and solutions to solve regional rural health care problems to support the long-term sustainability of rural health care. Long-term sustainability is defined as “improved health outcomes, improved access to quality health care, and creating and maintaining sustainable economic development for small communities.” Grant funds must be used in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding Information
- Recovery Grants: Grants range from $25,000 – $1 million.
- Impact Grants: Grants range from $5 million – $10 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include:
- Public bodies
- Community-based nonprofits
- Federally-recognized Tribes
- Impact Grant applicants must also establish a network or group of entities that consist of health care provider organizations, economic development entities, federally-recognized Tribes or institutions of higher learning (which may include academic health and research institutes).
- Facilities and projects must be located in – and primarily serve – rural areas. Rural areas including cities, villages, towns, townships, and federally-recognized Tribal lands with no more than 20,000 residents as determined by the latest U.S. Census Data are eligible for this program.
- The grants can cover up to 75 percent of eligible project costs based on population and median household income of the population to be served.
For more information, visit https://www.rd.usda.gov/erhc/overview