Grants for Service Area Competition in the US

Deadline: 1-Nov-21

The Department of Health and Human Services and Health Resources and Services Administration is pleased to announce the Grants for Service Area Competition (SAC) to support 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 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.

Funding Information

HRSA estimates approximately $266,709,000 to be available annually to fund 84 recipients.
The period of performance is June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2025 (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 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: Services Provided to make General Primary Medical Care available directly and/or through formal written contractual agreements in which the health center pays for the service.
You must provide continuity of services, ensuring availability and accessibility of services to residents of the service area, by proposing to serve an announced service area, as well as:
- Patients: The total number of unduplicated patients that you project to serve in calendar year 2023 (January 1 – December 31, 2023) as entered on Form.
- Services: You must project patients on Form: General Information Worksheet for each Service Type (e.g., Medical, Mental Health, Enabling) listed for the service area in the Service Area Announcement Table (SAAT).
- Service Area: If you are a new or competing supplement applicant, you must enter Service Area Zip Codes on Form: Service Sites for service delivery sites (administrative-only sites will not be considered) that:
  - Include a combination of SAAT Service Area Zip Codes where zip code patient percentages total at least 75 percent of the current patients served; or
  - Include all SAAT Service Area Zip Codes for the proposed service area, if the sum of all zip code patient percentages is less than 75 percent of the current patients served.
- Populations: You must propose to serve all population types listed in the SAAT (i.e., CHC, MHC, HCH, and/or PHPC) and maintain the funding distribution from the SAAT in the federal funding request. You may not add new population types (those noted in the SAAT with $0 in funding).
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: Service Sites. You must provide a verifiable street address for each proposed site on Form: Service Sites.
You must propose to provide access to services for all individuals in the service area and target population. 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 only: If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for funding, you must demonstrate that you have consulted with residents of public housing in the preparation of the SAC application.