NOFO: Regional Telehealth Resource Centers Program (US)

Deadline: 14-Apr-25

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the Regional Telehealth Resource Center program.

Telehealth is defined as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, health administration, and public health.

With this funding, recipients will provide expert and customized telehealth technical assistance across the country. These telehealth resource centers will provide training and support, disseminate information and research findings, promote effective collaboration, and foster the use of telehealth technologies to provide health care information and education for health care providers who serve rural areas, frontier communities, and medically underserved areas, and medically underserved populations.

They will support 12 regional telehealth resource centers that focus on statewide and regional telehealth activities.

Regional TRCs provide expert technical assistance in the development of telehealth services and leverage the experience of mature telehealth programs. These regional centers will provide training and support, disseminate information and research findings, promote effective collaboration, and foster the use of telehealth technologies to provide health care information and education for health care providers.

Objectives 

• Advance effective use of telehealth technologies in your respective service areas.
• Collaborate with other Telehealth Resource Center Program recipients and share and combine expertise and resources to create unified telehealth technical assistance capability with effective and efficient educational tools, consulting, and support capabilities.
• Meet the needs of telehealth networks, practitioners, or organizations in your service area including, but not limited to rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, critical access hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, State Offices of Rural Health, state offices concerning primary care, and other appropriate state government entities.
• Ideally include populations that suffer from poor health outcomes, health disparities, and other inequities as compared to the national average when addressing telehealth technical assistance. Examples of these populations include, but are not limited to, people experiencing homelessness, pregnant people, disabled individuals, youth and adolescents, persons experiencing hypertension, and tribes and tribal organizations.

Funding Information

• Expected total available funding in FY 2025:  $3,900,000 for Regional TRCs (HRSA-25-042)
• Funding range per award: Up to $325,000 each budget period.
• They plan to fund awards in four 12-month budget periods, for a total 4-year period of performance from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2029.

Core Services 

• Awards are expected to be used for the following core services:
  • Providing technical assistance, training, and support, and providing for travel expenses for health care providers and a range of health care entities that provide or will provide telehealth services.
  • Disseminating information and research findings related to telehealth services.
  • Promoting effective collaboration among Telehealth Resource Centers and the HRSA Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT), as well as other OAT award recipients (such as Telehealth Centers of Excellence and technical assistance (TA) providers).
  • Conducting evaluations to determine the best use of telehealth technologies to meet health care needs.
  • Promoting the integration of the technologies used in clinical information systems with other telehealth technologies.
  • Fostering the use of telehealth technologies to provide health care information and education for consumers in a more effective manner.
  • Implementing special projects or studies in collaboration with OAT.

Who can apply?

• You can apply if you are a domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entity.
• These types of domestic organizations may apply:
  • Public institutions of higher education
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Non-profits 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 freely associated states
  • Independent school districts
  • Native American tribal governments
  • Native American tribal organizations

For more information, visit Grants.gov.